Eurobarometer 19 (Mar-Apr 1983)

The content main focus areas of this Eurobarometer are:

1. The personal situation in life of respondent;

2. The role of women in occupation and society;

3. Political questions and attitudes to the EC.

Topics: 1. General contentment with life; satisfaction with democracy
in the country; judgement on development of personal economic situation
as well as the country in the last 12 months; connection between
economic development and unemployment; conversations about social
problems; personal opinion leadership; memberships and honorary
activities; type of group activities; composition of group according to
sex; earlier and current participation in public demonstrations.

2. Judgement on the occupational (scale) and social situation of women
(scale); attitude to emancipation of women; role distribution in one´s
family; full-time and part-time employment; readiness for part-time
work with sacrifice of income; work orientation; influence of sex on
one´s own professional career; characterization of one´s own work
activity (scale); (with those searching for work: preference for
full-time or part-time employment; continuation of the search even in
case of adequate financial reserves; conducting paid and unpaid
activities); paid household help or child care; most important criteria
given fictitious search for work; attitude to only the spouse working
and his presumed attitude to this; the right of the woman to
housekeeping money: workplace preference for men (versus women) given
high unemployment; political interest; interest in politics of partner;
differences of opinion with partner in political questions; attitude to
politics as ´man´s business´; trust regarding women and men in various
occupations; attitude to the women´s movement; (with women: membership
in a women´s initiative); judgement on selected objectives of women´s
initiatives; women´s participation in municipal representation, in the
Federal Parliament and in the European Parliament; assumed effects of a
higher proportion of women on the work of political committees;
knowledge of laws on occupational equal treatment of women; knowledge
of an EC department for equal rights; level of job standards and actual
level of contentment with life (scale); feeling of being happy;
associations with the term ´happiness´.

3. Views on various political problems of defense, the economy,
energy, environmental pollution and legislation (scale); national
pride; European citizenship; importance of peace; assessment of
personal closeness with other EC countries; assessment of current and
desired significance of national as well as the European Parliament;
postmaterialism; approval of the unification of Western Europe;
attitude to the EC membership of the country; advantages and
disadvantages of EC membership; assessment of the development of
relations of member states among one another; media usage; memory of
news about the European Parliament in the media; knowledge about the
composition of the European Parliament and the election mode;
significance of the European Parliament; preference for national or
European decision-making with selected problems; desired development of
the EC; personal election participation in the first European Election;
expected general participation in the European Election 1984 and
personal willingness to participate; self-assessment on a left-right
continuum; attitude to social change; commitment of one´s preferred
party for the European Election; characterization of an ideal party
(pairwise comparison); religiousness; world view influences on personal
life; influence of religious conviction on party preference; party
allegiance.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; age at conclusion of school;
employment; company size; household income; household size; household
composition; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head
of household; respondent is person managing household; party preference
(Sunday question); degree of urbanization.