Opinion Makers 1983

Attitudes of elites and persons influencing opinions on questions of
economic policy.

Topics: most important tasks of large concerns; assessment of the
sense of responsibility of management of large concerns and of industry
and economic organizations regarding the public; areas with increasing
willingness to accept responsibility; expected development of domestic
and foreign demand; assumed growth rate of the gross national product
in 1984; inflation expectation for the next twelve months; expected
unemployment figures in January 1984; preferred measures to combat
unemployment; attitude to securing the provision of energy, saving
energy and nuclear energy; trust in the problem-solving ability of the
Federal Government; issue relevance; judgement on the importance of
international cooperation in selected areas; judgement on the power of
international concerns; preferred public areas of expenditure for
economic or additional expenditures; print media usage; importance of
selected business goals; professional contacts and interest in selected
areas of industry; party preference; assumed effects of deployment of
new arms on economic relations to the East; attitude to deployment of
new arms.

Demography: age; sex; occupational position; occupational area of
responsibility; state.