Attitude of the German population to the census before census day, 31 May 1987. Political attitudes.

Topics: political interest; satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; difficulties in taking care of official matters; sympathy scale for political parties; attitude to the census; intent to participate in the census; knowledge about the compulsory participation requirement; personal consequences of non-participation; willingness to participate given threat of fine; response or boycott behavior during the survey; time of last noticed media reports about the census and tendency of content of these articles; conversations about the census in social surroundings and time of last conversation; living together with a partner and his attitude to the census; assumed participation of partner in the census; attitude to the census in circle of friends and acquaintances as well as their assumed willingness to participate; perceived attitude of the population as well as parties, churches and trade unions to the census; knowledge about contents of the census survey; knowledge about the survey procedure; attitude to government statistics; personal concerns regarding misuse of personal census data; trust in observance of data protection; attitude to the census in 1983; perception of advertising actions for and against the census and judgement on the arguments of supporters and opponents; attitude to technology; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; knowledge about the office for data protection and the data protection official; frequency of conversations about politics; ability to establish contacts; party preference; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election.

Demography: month of birth of respondent; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education; vocational training; occupation; occupational position; employment; monthly gross income of respondent and household altogether; number of persons contributing to household income; size of household; position of respondent in household; characteristics of head of household; number of persons eligible to vote in household; persons in household who do not have German citizenship; self-assessment of social class; union membership of respondent and other members of household; possession of a telephone.

Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview and person desiring this presence; intervention by others in interview and person causing this intervention; attitude to the census of other persons present during interview; presence of further persons in other rooms; reliability and willingness of respondent to cooperate.

Also encoded were: length of interview; date of interview; identification of interviewer; sex of interviewer; age of interviewer.

Attitude of the German population to the census before census day, 31 May 1987. Political attitudes.

Topics: political interest; satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; difficulties in taking care of official matters; sympathy scale for political parties; attitude to the census and intent to participate; knowledge about the compulsory participation requirment; personal consequences of non-participation; willingness to participate given threat of fine; response or boycott behavior during the survey; perceived media reports about the census and tendency of content of these articles; conversations about the census in social surroundings and time of last conversation; living together with a partner and his attitude to the census; assumed participation of partner in the census; attitude to the census in circle of friends and acquaintances as well as their assumed willingness to participate; perceived attitude of the population as well as parties, churches and trade unions to the census; knowledge about contents of the census survey; attitude to punishment of census boycotters as well as persons calling for boycott; knowledge about the survey procedure; attitude to government statistics; personal concerns regarding misuse of personal census data; trust in observance of data protection; attitude to the census in 1983; perception of advertising actions for and against the census and judgement on arguments of supporters and opponents; attitude to technology; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; knowledge about the office for data protection and the data protection official; frequency of conversations about politics; ability to establish contacts; party preference; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election.

Demography: month of birth of respondent; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education; vocational training; occupation; occupational position; employment; monthly gross income of respondent und household altogether; number of persons contributing to household income; size of household; position of respondent in household; characteristics of head of household; number of persons eligible to vote in household; persons in household who do not have German citizenship; self-assessment of social class; union membership of respondent and other members of household; possession of a telephone.

Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview and person desiring this presence; intervention of others in interview and person introducing this intervention; attitude to the census of persons additionally present during interview; presence of further persons in other rooms; willingness to cooperate and reliability of respondent.

Also encoded was: length of interview; date of interview; identification of interviewer; sex of interviewer; age of interviewer.

Attitude of the German population to the census after census day, 31 May 1987. Political attitudes.

Topics: political interest; satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; difficulties in taking care of official matters; sympathy scale for political parties; attitude to the census; conversations about the census in social surroundings and topics discussed; attitude to the census in circle of friends and acquaintances; perceived attitude of the population to the census; conversation contact with the canvasser; questionnaire filled out oneself or by canvasser; individually filling out questionnaire or information for entire household from a single person; duration of filling it out; response or boycott behavior during the survey; type of questionnaire return; attitude to the question program of the census and personal change in attitude from knowledge of the questionnaire; intent to participate; response or boycott behavior in circle of friends and acquaintances; topics noticed in media reporting about the census and tendency of content of these articles; attitude to use of canvassers; assessment and importance of trustworthiness of canvasser; attitude to punishment of census boycotters as well as persons calling for boycott; attitude to the requirement to provide information in the census (scale); attitude to the boycott and to criticism of the census (scale); attitude to government statistics; personal concerns regarding misuse of personal census data; trust in observance of data protection; knowledge about the office for data protection and the office of the data protection official.

Demography: month of birth of respondent; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education; vocational training; occupation; occupational position; employment; monthly gross income of respondent and household altogether; number of persons contributing to household income; size of household; position of respondent in household; characteristics of head of household; number of persons eligible to vote in household; persons in household who do not have German citizenship; self-assessment of social class; union membership of respondent and other members of household; possession of a telephone.

Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview and person desiring this presence; intervention of others in interview and person introducing this intervention; attitude to the census of additional persons present during interview; presence of further persons in other rooms; willingness to cooperate and reliability of respondent.

Also encoded was: length of interview; date of interview; identification of interviewer; sex of interviewer; age of interviewer.