Church Membership Survey of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) 1982

Attitude of protestant Christians to their church.
Topics: Constituting characteristics for the protestant denomination;
selected reasons for infant baptism; attitude to baptism; preference
for infant baptism or adult baptism as well as for state or church
kindergarten as well as reason for this decision; the meaning of
confirmation; confirmation of respondent; regular attendance of
children's service; attitude to current children's service;
experiences and memories of one's own confirmation classes; closeness
of father and mother as well as of respondent with the church;
perceived change and direction of change in closeness with church;
disappointment or lack of interest as reason for reduced closeness;
attitude to church membership (scale); occasion for the last
conversation with a protestant pastor or minister; time of
conversation; general impression of conversation partner; knowing the
pastor in one's parish and frequency of contact; occasion for the
last house visit of the pastor; attitude to a house visit by the
pastor; knowledge of further employees of the church parish and
identification of the most important church employee; active
participation in church life and type of participation; frequency of
church attendance; last church attendance on a holiday; participation
in family, political, ecumenical or youth services; participation in
Communion service in the new form; extent to which informed about
church conventions; sources of information about church conventions;
general judgement on and attitude to church conventions (scale);
preferred relief organization for a donation; knowledge about the
protestant relief organization; donation readiness with
house-to-house and street collections for selected purposes and
projects; general attitude to house-to-house and street collections;
desired and actual commitment of the protestant church in selected
religious and social areas; frequency of discussions about religion,
church and belief; the meaning of life; life after death; the meaning
of suffering; judgement on the extent of internal conflicts in the
protestant church; inclination toward leaving the church; knowledge
about the office responsible for leaving the church; estimated
personal consequences of leaving the church and expected effect on
the church; knowledge about the church tax rate; figures of church
tax and judgement on the level of the amount; attitude to church tax
(scale); extent of one's own payments in case of elimination of the
church tax; preference for the same contribution or graduated
contribution rates in case of voluntary payment; length of local
residency; party preference; participation in citizen initiatives;
union membership; party membership; membership in a professional
organization; club membership; assessment of future social, technical
and religious development; attitude to marriage and living together
by unmarried; frequency of watching church service broadcasts,
religious or church broadcasts as well as the "Word for Sunday";
prayer and church service broadcasts on the radio; membership in the
established protestant church in the state; religious denomination of
parents; primary denominational affiliation of residents at place of
survey; city size; fleeing before 1948; judgement on income tax
burden of respondent.