Church Membership Survey of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) 1972

Attitude of protestant Christians to their church.
Topics: Constituting characteristic for the protestant denomination;
selected reasons for infant baptism; attitude to baptism; preference
for infant baptism or adult baptism as well as for government or
church kindergartens; meaning of confirmation; confirmation of
respondent; memory of the confirmation pastor and the confirmation
text; regular attendance at the children's service; attitude to the
current children's service; experiences and memories of one's
confirmation classes; closeness of father and mother as well as
respondent with church; perceived change and direction of change of
church closeness; agreement with the church in religious matters;
most important reasons and attitude to church membership (scale);
preference for church or government hospital in case of illness;
perceived differences between government and church hospitals
regarding medical equipment, medical personnel and care for the sick;
occasion for the last conversation with a protestant pastor or
minister; time of conversation; general impression of this
conversation; knowledge about the pastor in one's parish and
frequency of contact; cause for the last house visit of the pastor;
attitude to a house visit by the pastor; preferred relief
organization for a donation; reasons for preference of the selected
relief organization; 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 involvement
of the protestant church in selected religious and social areas;
preference for government or church involvement in selected areas;
preference for government or church home for the old; frequency of
conversation about religion, church and faith; personal opinion
leadership or opinion allegiance; interest in church counseling in
case of marriage problems; inclination toward leaving the church;
knowledge about the office responsible for leaving the church;
estimated personal consequences of leaving the church; persons
leaving the church in the circle of relatives and friends; knowledge
about the church tax rate; figures of church tax and judgement on the
level of the amount; attitude to the church tax (scale); preference
for voluntary payments or government tax collection; extent of one's
own payments in case of elimination of the church tax; length of
local residency; party preference; union membership; party
membership; club membership; employment in a church facility;
interest in participating in a church facility; satisfaction with the
social conditions in the Federal Republic; watching television;
interest in church broadcasts and services on the radio; spatial
closeness to parents and frequency of visits; frequency of contacts
with friends in one's residence as well as with the friends; reading
of magazines; frequency of church attendance; religiousness (Kaufmann
Scale); identification as a member of the parish, the established
protestant church in the state or member of the protestant church of
Germany; knowledge about individual established protestant church in
the state; membership in the established protestant church in the
state; religious denomination of spouse and parents; main
denomination affiliation of residents at place of survey; city size;
refugee or exile status; fleeing before 1948; judgement on the income
tax burden of respondent.