Employee Study 1968

The company situation of employees in the Federal Republic and their
attitude to co-determination.

Topics: characterization of job; length of company employment; change
of companies; work satisfaction; judgement on the business and
development chances of the area of business; relationship with
superiors and colleagues; judgement on employee status in comparison
with the status of a worker; attitude to continued payment of wages
during sickness for workers; judgement on the job of the works council;
characterization of the most important areas of co-determination for
employees; satisfaction with co-determination possibilities; knowledge
about so-called ´expanded co-determination´ and assessment of the
chances of realization of such a demand by the trade unions; attitude
to co-determination (scale); achievement-based pay; satisfaction with
income; type of long-term savings program; savings goals and extent of
savings; right to vacation, judgement on the appropriateness of
vacation; union vacation or additional days of vacation; attitude to
education leave; membership in a trade union; reasons for possible
intent to leave or reasons for not joining; attitude to trade unions;
knowledge about trade unions; knowledge about union representatives in
the company or government office; attitude to trade unions as
representation of all employees; judgement on the importance of
selected trade union demands; attitude to strike calls by the trade
union during wage negotiation conflicts as well as a political general
strike; reading trade union magazines; judgement on the economic
situation of the FRG and personal economic situation; judgement on the
economic policy of the past few months and assignment of responsibility
for these policies; judgement on the issue relevance and issue ability
of the parties; judgement on equal opportunities in the FRG;
satisfaction with country and society; judgement on political influence
of selected special interest groups and media; political interest;
sympathy scale for the CDU, SPD, FDP and NPD; behavior at the polls in
the Federal Parliament election 1965; party preference and party ties;
assessment of the result of the Federal Parliament election 1969;
preferred government coalition; party preferences of family and
friends; memberships; self-assessment of social class; importance of
work and leisure time; athletic activities and organization of leisure
time; most important criteria in judging people; topics of conversation
within the family; friendships; media usage; knowledge of foreign
languages.

For the survey groups pensioners, self-employed and dependents of
employees extensive supplemental questions were posed.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance; school education; occupational
training; occupation; employment; area of business of company; company
size; income; household income; number of recipients of income;
possession of durable economic goods; household size; household
composition; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head
of household; residential status; local residency; social origins;
degree of urbanization; refugee status; union membership.

Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate; interest
in interview; reliability of respondent.