GESIS Online Panel Pilot: Religion and values (survey 4)

Religion and values.

This study number comprises the data collected during the so called
main studies. The main studies represent three surveys which have
partially been used for methodic experiments. The questions are
identical in every survey except for the described differences.

Topics: attitude towards the environment: willigness to spend part of
the income on the environment; disastrous consequences of human
intervention in nature; human ingenuity will ensure that the earth
stays inhabitable; nature´s self-regulation compensates the influences
of the modern industrialized countries; an ecological disaster is
inevitable; importance of areas of life (work, family, friends and
acquaintances, leisure, politics, religion, voluntary work, health);
self-assessment of religiosity (scalometer); confession, frequency of
church attendance; importance of religious birthday, wedding and
funeral ceremonys; relationship between church and politics (church
leaders should not try to influence people´s election decision; church
leaders should not try to influence the government´s decisions);
religious belief and sciences (too much trust in sciences); religion as
a source of conflicts; pious people´s intolerance; evaluation of the
power of the church and religious organizations; belief in God.

Demography: born in today´s Germany; state of birthplace; if not born
in today´s Germany: since when does the respondent live in Germany
(year); where did the respondent mainly live during his youth; if the
respondent lived in Germany during his youth: state; citizenship;
willigness to move into one of the new or one of the old states;
willingness to move into another EU country; local ties; previous
regional mobility; in contact with foreigners living in Germany; in
contact with Germans (if the respondent is not a German citizen);
attitude towards immigration to Germany (immigrants of the same
respectively a different ethnic group and immigrants from poorer
non-European countries); immigration good for economy; immigration as
an enrichment of cultural life; immigration makes Germany a better
place; evaluation of the discrimination against specific groups in
Germany (ethnic backgound, sex, sexual orientation (e.g.
homosexuality), age, religion or confession of faith, disability);
self-reported diligence in answering the questionnaire (not asked in
main study 1); evaluation of the survey (interesting, rich in variety,
important for sciences, long, difficult, too personal); interruption of
the survey; personal remarks about the survey.

Additionally encoded: amount of the respondent´s incentive.