USICA Youth Study (Panel: 1st Wave 1976-1977)

Political fundamental philosophies, political participation and
judgement on international relations by German young people as well as
younger adults.

Topics: self-image of Germans; self-assessment of progressiveness;
fair share of national product for young people; attitude to observance
of law and order; situations of not obeying laws; attitude to
demonstrations and to a larger proportion of developing countries with
prosperity; satisfaction with the political system in the FRG and
preferred changes in the system; reasons for dissatisfaction; political
interest and political participation; personal participation in
political actions and protests; consideration of general citizen
interests by the government; attitude to the DKP and extremists in the
civil service; attitude to the USA and various other countries;
judgement on the influence of the FRG in the world and attitude to a
claim to leadership by the FRG; most important goals of a preferred
foreign policy; attitude to NATO and cooperation of the FRG with the
USA or Europe; judgement on the future influence of communists in
Western Europe; accepted decision-making responsibility for a European
Government; personal opinion leadership in political questions;
self-assessment on a left-right continuum; personal election
participation and behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament
election (ballot procedure, first and second votes); party preference;
party identification; religiousness.

Scales: political activity, democratic attitude, old and new political
values, political repression, supranationalism, political and economic
human rights.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; frequency of church attendance;
school education; occupational training; occupational position;
employment; sources of income; income of spouse; memberships.

Interviewer rating: presence of other persons and their degree of
relationship to respondent; reliability and willingness of respondent
to cooperate; date of interview; number of contact attempts.

Also encoded was: identification of interviewer.