Attitude of the German population and of critics of the census to the census after census day on 31 May 1987. Political attitudes. Topics: political interest; satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; government orientation toward its own interests or public interest; perceived protection of rights to freedom by the political system and the current Federal Government; satisfaction with the job of the Federal Government; attitude to the census; receipt of a written request to fill out the questionnaire; intent to participate in the census before start of counting; personal willingness to participate in the census even given voluntary participation; assumed level of non-participation in the census; attitude to the census in one´s circle of friends and acquaintances; conversations about the census in social surroundings after conclusion of the survey and time of last conversation; knowledge about contents of the census survey; additionally expected questions; questions that one would not gladly answer; response or boycott behavior during the survey; attitude to government statistics; attitude to punishment of census boycotters and knowledge of cases of refusal; assumed willingness of the population to participate as well as honesty of responses given voluntary participation in the census; voluntarily providing selected personal data; preference for census or providing data already available by government offices; assumed benefit or damage from discussions about the census in the media and reasons for this assessment; attitude to earlier calls for boycott and to the time of survey; judgement on the success of the boycott movement; attitude to selected arguments for and against the census; benefit of a census; attitude to the obligation to provide information; census boycott as protest against the government; census participation as democratic duty; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; assumed position of the majority of the population on a left-right continuum; understanding of democracy and comparison of this right with reality in the Federal Republic; party preference; violation of fundamental rights by measures of authorities perceived personally or by persons from social surroundings; attitude to technology; perceived insecurity in contact with authorities and attitude to government offices; concerns regarding misuse of personal census data; trust in observance of data protection; attitude to storage of personal data; importance of data protection; assumed observance of data protection regulations; knowledge of cases of data misuse and source of information about such violations; assumed willingness to participate in a future census; attitude to opinion polls (scale); willingness to participate in a microcensus survey; willingness to provide information from one´s private sphere to friends, neighbors, census bureaus and scientific surveys; attitude to selected government statistics; willingness to respond in order to make statistics possible; fear of data misuse; concerns regarding misuse of personal data by selected institutions and government offices (scale); attitude to selected illegal actions (scale); religiousness (scale); attitude to questions of belief and the meaning of life (scale); belief in supernatural, inexplicable events as well as horoscopes and telepathy. Demography: month of birth; year of birth; sex; religious denomination; school education; employment; college in vicinity of place of residence; students in residential area; possession of a telephone. Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview and person desiring this presence; intervention of others in interview and person causing the 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. Additionally encoded were: length of interview; date of interview; identification of interviewer; sex of interviewer; age of interviewer. Einstellung der bundesdeutschen Bevölkerung und von Volkszählungskritikern zur Volkszählung nach dem Stichtag am 31. Mai 1987. Politische Einstellungen. Themen: Politisches Interesse; Zufriedenheit mit der Demokratie in der Bundesrepublik; Interessen- oder Gemeinwohlorientierung der Regierung; empfundener Schutz der Freiheitsrechte durch das politische System und die gegenwärtige Bundesregierung; Zufriedenheit mit der Arbeit der Bundesregierung; Einstellung zur Volkszählung; Erhalt einer schriftlichen Aufforderung zum Ausfüllen des Fragebogens; Teilnahmeabsicht an der Volkszählung vor Beginn der Zählung; eigene Bereitschaft zur Teilnahme an der Volkszählung, auch bei freiwilliger Teilnahme; vermutete Höhe der Nichtbeteiligung an der Volkszählung; Einstellung zur Volkszählung im Freundes- und Bekanntenkreis; Gespräche über die Volkszählung im sozialen Umfeld nach Abschluß der Erhebung und Zeitpunkt des letzten Gesprächs; Kenntnisse über die Inhalte der Volkszählungsbefragung; zusätzlich erwartete Fragen; Fragen, die ungern beantwortet wurden; Antwort- bzw. Boykottverhalten bei der Erhebung; Einstellung zu staatlichen Statistiken; Einstellung zu einer Bestrafung von Volkszählungsboykotteuren und Kenntnis von Verweigerungsfällen; vermutete Teilnahmebereitschaft der Bevölkerung sowie der Antwortehrlichkeit bei Freiwilligkeit der Teilnahme an der Volkszählung; freiwillige Weitergabe ausgewählter persönlicher Daten; Präferenz für Volkszählung oder Weitergabe von bereits vorliegenden Daten durch die Ämter; vermuteter Nutzen oder Schaden der Diskussion über die Volkszählung in den Medien und Gründe für diese Einschätzung; Einstellung zu früheren Boykottaufrufen und zum Befragungszeitpunkt; Beurteilung des Erfolgs der Boykottbewegung; Einstellung zu ausgewählten Argumenten für und gegen die Volkszählung; Nutzen einer Volkszählung; Einstellung zur Auskunftspflicht; Volkszählungsboykott als Protest gegen den Staat; Volkszählungsteilnahme als demokratische Pflicht; Selbsteinschätzung auf einem Links-Rechts-Kontinuum; vermutete Position der Bevölkerungsmehrheit auf einem Links-Rechts-Kontinuum; Demokratieverständnis und Vergleich dieses Anspruchs mit der Wirklichkeit in der Bundesrepublik; Parteipräferenz; persönlich oder von Personen des sozialen Umfelds empfundene Verletzung der Grundrechte durch Behördenmaßnahmen; Einstellung zur Technik; empfundene Unsicherheiten bei Behördenkontakten und Einstellung gegenüber Ämtern; Befürchtungen hinsicht lich einer Zweckentfremdung der persönlichen Volkszählungsdaten; Vertrauen in die Einhaltung des Datenschutzes; Einstellung zur Speicherung personenbezogener Daten; Wichtigkeit des Datenschutzes vermutete Einhaltung der Datenschutzbestimmungen; Kenntnis von Fällen des Datenmißbrauchs und Informationsquelle über solche Verstöße; vermutete Teilnahmebereitschaft an einer zukünftigen Volkszählung; Einstellung zu Meinungsumfragen (Skala); Teilnahmebereitschaft an einer Mikrozensus-Erhebung; Weitergabebereitschaft von Informationen aus der Privatsphäre an Freunde, Nachbarn, statistische Ämter und in wissenschaftlichen Umfragen; Einstellung zu ausgewählten staatlichen Statistiken; Antwortbereitschaft, um Statistiken zu ermöglichen; Angst vor Datenmißbrauch; Befürchtungen hinsichtlich einer Zweckentfremdung der persönlichen Daten durch ausgewählte Institutionen und Ämter (Skala); Einstellung zu ausgewählten illegalen Handlungen (Skala); Religiosität (Skalometer); Einstellung zu Glaubensfragen und zum Sinn des Lebens (Skala); Glaube an übersinnliche, unerklärliche Ereignisse sowie an Horoskope und Telepathie. Demographie: Geburtsmonat; Geburtsjahr; Geschlecht; Konfession; Schulbildung; Berufstätigkeit; Hochschule in Wohnortnähe; Studenten in der Wohngegend; Telefonbesitz. Interviewerrating: Anwesenheit Dritter beim Interview und Person, die die Anwesenheit erwünschte; Eingriffe Dritter in das Interview und Person, die die Intervention herbeiführte; Einstellung der beim Interview zusätzlich anwesenden Person zur Volkszählung; Anwesenheit weiterer Personen in anderen Räumen; Kooperationsbereitschaft und Zuverlässigkeit des Befragten. Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: Interviewdauer; Interviewdatum; Intervieweridentifikation; Interviewergeschlecht; Intervieweralter. Re-interview of the persons interviewed in the second panel wave (ZA Study No. 1589) as well as of persons interviewed in the first panel wave (ZA Study No. 1588), but not contacted in the survey of the second panel wave. Wiederbefragung der in der 2. Panel-Welle befragten Personen (ZA-Studien-Nr. 1589) sowie von Personen, die in der 1. Panel-Well interviewt wurden (ZA-Studien-Nr. 1588), bei der Befragung der 2. Panel-Welle aber nicht angetroffen wurden.

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

Topics: political interest; satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; feeling of political effectiveness and degree of representation by politicians and parties; orientation of government policies on personal interest or public welfare; attitude to the census; intent to participate of members of household and respondent; willingness to participate after reference to threat of fine; filling out the survey questionnaire oneself or by another person in household; conversations about the census in social surroundings and time of last conversation; attitude to the census in circle of friends and acquaintances as well as their willingness to participate; importance of political attitudes in social surroundings and visibility of one´s own views; knowledge about contents of the census survey (scale); assumed difficulty of filling out the survey questionnaire; preference for filling it out in the presence of the canvasser or alone; misgivings about canvassers in residence; difficulties in taking care of official matters; frequency of contact and ability to establish contacts; trust in institutions and organizations; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; assumed position of the majority of the population on a left-right continuum; postmaterialism; sympathy scale for political parties; frequency of use of television news broadcasts as well as local news and political part of a daily newspaper; time of last noticed media reports about the census and tendency of content of these articles; assumed attitude of the population to the census; living together with a partner and his attitude to the census; assumed participation of partner in the census; response or boycott behavior during the census survey; attitude to government statistics; attitude to punishment of census boycotters and preferred government behavior regarding refusals; personal concerns regarding misuse of personal census data; trust in observance of data protection; sympathy regarding social movements as well as personal membership; party preference; perceived fears and their causes; attitude to technology; attitude to computers and to scientific innovations; attitude to government behavior with data; assessment of census refusers as system opponents; attitude to storing personal data; importance of data protection and trust in observance of the data protection regulation; judgement on the quality of data protection; earlier participation in a survey and type of survey; attitude to selected infringements of law and crimes as well as other illegal actions (scale); religiousness; union membership; self-assessment of social class; possession of a telephone; willingness to participate in a re-interview.

The following additional questions were posed to persons with strong or very strong political interest: demographic information on close circle of friends (ego-centered network); agreement with the respondent regarding party preference and attitude to the census; willingness of friends to participate in the census; familiarity of friends with each other; personal willingness to participate in selected political forms of protest (scale); personal concerns regarding misuse of personal data by selected institutions and government offices.

Demography: month of birth; year of birth; 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.

Attitude of the German population and of critics of the census to the census after census day on 31 May 1987. Political attitudes.

Topics: political interest; satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; government orientation toward its own interests or public interest; perceived protection of rights to freedom by the political system and the current Federal Government; satisfaction with the job of the Federal Government; attitude to the census; receipt of a written request to fill out the questionnaire; intent to participate in the census before start of counting; personal willingness to participate in the census even given voluntary participation; assumed level of non-participation in the census; attitude to the census in one´s circle of friends and acquaintances; conversations about the census in social surroundings after conclusion of the survey and time of last conversation; knowledge about contents of the census survey; additionally expected questions; questions that one would not gladly answer; response or boycott behavior during the survey; attitude to government statistics; attitude to punishment of census boycotters and knowledge of cases of refusal; assumed willingness of the population to participate as well as honesty of responses given voluntary participation in the census; voluntarily providing selected personal data; preference for census or providing data already available by government offices; assumed benefit or damage from discussions about the census in the media and reasons for this assessment; attitude to earlier calls for boycott and to the time of survey; judgement on the success of the boycott movement; attitude to selected arguments for and against the census; benefit of a census; attitude to the obligation to provide information; census boycott as protest against the government; census participation as democratic duty; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; assumed position of the majority of the population on a left-right continuum; understanding of democracy and comparison of this right with reality in the Federal Republic; party preference; violation of fundamental rights by measures of authorities perceived personally or by persons from social surroundings; attitude to technology; perceived insecurity in contact with authorities and attitude to government offices; concerns regarding misuse of personal census data; trust in observance of data protection; attitude to storage of personal data; importance of data protection; assumed observance of data protection regulations; knowledge of cases of data misuse and source of information about such violations; assumed willingness to participate in a future census; attitude to opinion polls (scale); willingness to participate in a microcensus survey; willingness to provide information from one´s private sphere to friends, neighbors, census bureaus and scientific surveys; attitude to selected government statistics; willingness to respond in order to make statistics possible; fear of data misuse; concerns regarding misuse of personal data by selected institutions and government offices (scale); attitude to selected illegal actions (scale); religiousness (scale); attitude to questions of belief and the meaning of life (scale); belief in supernatural, inexplicable events as well as horoscopes and telepathy.

Demography: month of birth; year of birth; sex; religious denomination; school education; employment; college in vicinity of place of residence; students in residential area; possession of a telephone.

Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview and person desiring this presence; intervention of others in interview and person causing the 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.

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