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Terminal Text Preinvestigation (Self-Employed)

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1129 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1129
Abstract: The company communication behavior and information desires of the self-employed. Attitude to the terminal text system. Topics: number of technical journals regularly received; expenditures for technical literature; frequency of use of telephone services; frequency of contact with authorities; difficulties in obtaining information; colleague taking care of the search for information; satisfaction with the efficiency of letter traffic as well as mail delivery times; number of letters received and sent as well as telegrams per week; number of telephones in the office and amount of last telephon ... more

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 06.1979 - 07.1979
Geographic coverage: North Rhine-Westphalia (DE-NW), Duesseldorf and vicinity
Universe: Self-employed persons (architects, construction engineers, lawyers, accountants and auditors).
Number of Units: 132
Sampling Procedure: Random selection
Mode of Data Collection: Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector: INFRATEST, Munich
Analysis System(s): OSIRIS, SPSS
Number of Variables: 262
Notes: Further investigations on BTX are archived under ZA Study Nos. 1128, 1162, 1200, 1213 and 1214.

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Langenbucher, Wolfgang R. - Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft, Universität München | Treinen, Heiner - Sektion für sozialwissenschaftliche Methodenlehre und Sozialstatistik, Universität Bochum | Scheuch, Erwin K. - Institut für angewandte Sozialforschung, Universität zu Köln
Publication year: 1979
DOI: 10.4232/1.1129
Study number: ZA1129
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1129
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Reference publications

Publications: Langenbucher, Wolfgang R.: Individuum und Haushalt als Informationssucher: Chance für Bildschirmtext? In: Witte, Eberhard (Hrsg.): Telekommunikation für den Menschen: Individuelle und gesellschaftliche Wirkungen. Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1980, S.118 - 139.
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