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Information Systems and Information Habits (Observation Study and Clients Survey)

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA0965 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.0965
Abstract: The two-part data set contains 1. The judgement on contact with government offices and their forms from the view of the citizens and 2. Observations about contacts between client and employees in government offices. Topics: 1. Through written client survey it was determined: adviser in filling out applications for government offices; judgement on difficulties and clarity of the form; ununderstandable question formulations; extensive judgement on the conduct and readiness for action of the official in charge; earlier contact with government offices in the same matter; judgement on the pr ... more

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 01.1978 - 03.1978
Geographic coverage: North Rhine-Westphalia (DE-NW), Cologne
Universe: Administration clients with German Citizenship
Number of Units: 1780
Sampling Procedure: The sample of government office clients of German nationality is divided in three: 1. Card file selection of clients who in 1977 had filed a new application for welfare, housing benefit, earnings-related unemployment benefit or unemployment benefit or medical rehabilitation (with the AOK); 2. Cluster sample of persons who were observed during ... more
Mode of Data Collection: Written survey and Beobachtung
Data Collector: Institut fuer angewandte Sozialforschung, Universitaet zu Koeln
Analysis System(s): -
Number of Variables: -
Notes: The current data set contains three different data groups: 1. respondents who also were observed concurrent with contact with authorities; 2. persons who were only observed and did not carry out the desired return of the questionnaire 3. persons who were not observed during contact with authorities but received a questionnaire from the civil servan ... more

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Bick, Wolfgang - Institut für angewandte Sozialforschung, Universität zu Köln | Müller, Paul J. - Institut für angewandte Sozialforschung, Universität zu Köln
Publication year: 1978
DOI: 10.4232/1.0965
Study number: ZA0965
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.0965
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Reference publications

Publications: Bick, Wolfgang; Müller, Paul J.: Informationssysteme und Informationsverhalten: Soziologische Grundlagenforschung für eine Informationspolitik. Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen: Fachinformationszentrum Energie, Physik, Mathematik 1979. | Bauer, Henning: Die Übersetzung des Alltags in Verwaltungskategorien: Beobachtungen in lokalen Leistungsverwaltunge ... more
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