Population and Technical Progress

Relationship of the population of Cologne to technical progress and
willingness to accept innovations.

Topics: Interest in technology; technical talent and technical
knowledge; sources of information about technology; evaluation of the
speed of technical progress; associations with the term technology;
attitude to technology (scale); evaluation of the effect of technology
on various areas of life of the people and on the environment;
evaluation of success up to now of scientific research as well as of
the possibilities and limits of scientific research in the future;
benefit of space travel; attitudes to equal rights for women, the
contraceptive pill, the death penalty, sexuality and fashion (scale);
attitude to coeducation; tasks of the school; perceived influence of
special interest groups on politics and society; attitude to left-wing
and right-wing radicalism in the civil service, the NPD, the KPD
prohibition, military service and empirical social research; membership
in clubs and organizations; ideas about the school education of boys
and girls; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election
1965 and party preference; religiousness.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; number of children;
religious denomination; occupation; head of household; self-assessment
of social class; social origins; place of birth; regional origins;
refugee status; membership.

Interviewer rating: social class and willingness of respondent to
cooperate; presence of other persons and their degree of relationship
to respondent; sincerity of the responses; frequency and length of
interruptions of interview; number of contact attempts; reasons for
lack of interview with multiple contact attempts.