Social Infrastructure (Panel: 1st Wave 1976)

Judgement on public services and local politics: most important problems and tasks of the municipality; most important tasks in the area of housing conditions and environmental protection; attitude to privatization of selected public services; attitude to the welfare state; judgement on financial government expenditures for the individual types of school and further education facilities; most important problems in the school area; satisfaction with local education facilities and public transportation; use of various means of transport in selected situations; priorities in local traffic policy and culture policies; satisfaction with local facilities and social facilities; frequency of utilization of and judgement on selected social facilities; criticism and reasons for non-use of such facilities. 3.

Judgement on inner security: assessment of sense of security at place of residence; fear of becoming victim of a crime; particularly unsafe areas locally; personal impact from a traffic offense or a crime; point in time and type of crime; filing a report and its outcome. 4. contact with authorities and personal local political activities: judgement on contacts with authorities and selected authorities, such as e.g. the police; trust in authorities and selected occupational groups (scale); assessment of the populism and the job of city management (scale); personal political participation and rank order of effectiveness of political actions; personal opinion leadership or opinion allegiance in political questions; party preference and self-assessment of left-right orientation within a party. 5.

Miscellaneous: type and length of leisure activities; desire for additional leisure activity; satisfaction with local leisure offerings; media usage; general contentment with life; importance of areas of life and degree of realization of more important goals in life; distance to workplace; assessment of personal job security; year of birth of children; date of birth; car possession; possession of a telephone; household help; possession of house and property; memberships; attending meetings and honorary offices; judgement on the effect of survey results on city management; attitude to a regular survey of citizens.

Demography: religious denomination; school education; occupational training; occupational position; employment; household size. Interviewer rating: type of building; number of contact attempts; willingness of respondent to cooperate; reliability of respondent; length of interview; date of interview; identification of interviewer.