Municipality Study Juelich (Scientists)

Topics: Importance of municipal institutions for well-being in the municipality; attitude to local controversies such as community school, attracting industrial businesses and constructing a town hall; political interest and political extent to which informed about local political matters; tax reduction versus increase in social services of the government; sympathy in wage conflicts; perceived influence of trade unions, industry and church in the FRG; friendships and type of relations with friends; religious denomination and party preference of friends; contacts with colleagues; position in the institute; power distribution in the institute and in the nuclear research facility; personal influence on the research and development program of the institute; actual and ideal division of work as well as research goals of the institute; work satisfaction (scale); party preference; voting decision in the Federal Parliament election and the city council election 1969; local residency and regional origins; media usage; membership in clubs and committees; desire for personal house ownership.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); religious denomination; religiousness; housing situation; place of birth. Interviewer rating: length of interview; presence of other persons and interventions of such persons in the course of interview; reliability and willingness of respondent to cooperate; number of contact attempts and appointment agreements. Also encoded from the sample records was: activity area and institute department; occupational group; tax class and duration of employment.