Leadership in the Federal Republic of Germany (Population Survey for the Mannheim Elite Study 1981)

The attitude of the German population to current political questions as
well as to fundamental problems of democracy and its ability to
function.

Topics: most important problems of the FRG; judgement on the
importance of political goals; attitude to selected topics of domestic
and foreign policy, such as e.g. the comprehensive school, ecology and
competitive ability, foreign aid, EC sovereignty, government
supervision of primary industry and banks, reduction of social
services, ban on employment of radicals as teachers and civil servants,
co-determination and private radio stations; judgement on policies to
reduce tension and Soviet foreign policy; attitude to nuclear energy;
political interest; party preference; sympathy scale for the CDU/CSU,
SPD, FDP and the Greens; self-assessment on a left-right continuum;
preferred government coalition.

Scales: understanding of democracy; dogmatism; postmaterialism.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance; occupation; employment; income;
household income; household size; household composition; respondent is
head of household; characteristics of head of household; person
managing household.

Also encoded was: weekday of interview; size of municipality class,
politically and after Boustedt; administrative districts.