DOI: 10.5279/dk-sa-dda-266
title: Danish Gallup Omnibus Data, 1974
title: Danish Gallup Omnibus Data, 1974

description: Danish Gallup Omnibus Data, 1974 comprises 14 omnibus surveys carried out by the Danish Gallup Institute in 1974. #Originally, 15 surveys were carried out, but data from the first survey are not in the possession of the DDA. Furthermore, surveys number 02 and 15 are incomplete. #Each survey contains a number of demographic variables common to all the surveys of that year, as well as a number of questions dealing with topical events. The present survey is a year file based on all the surveys. #The questions common to all 1974 omnibuses are: Degree of urbanization; sex; age; marital status; occupational status, education and gross income; total family gross income; occupational status of head of household; size of household; type of dwelling; number of children under the age of 15; exact age of the children; number of adults in household; respondent's position in household; occupational status of the housewife; and party preference. # #The special questions deal with such issues as: # #Omnibus no. 02 (DDA-0402): #Use of cars; attitudes to general speed limits and other measures to reduce petrol consumption; traffic accidents; seat belts; preferred car size; and the distribution of tax burdens. # #Omnibus no. 03 (DDA-0403): #Attitudes to present social developments; attitudes to the Government; and attitudes to the political compromise between the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party. # #Omnibus no. 04 (DDA-0404): #Danish membership of the EC, and voting intention if a referendum were held on the day of the interview; attitudes to the political compromise between the Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Party, the Christian People's Party and the Centre Democratic Party; and attitudes to NATO and assessment of the organization's contribution to European security. # #Omnibus no. 05 (DDA-0405): #Aspects of the flow of information from public authorities. # #Omnibus no. 06 (DDA-0406): #Vote at the referendum on Danish membership of the EC; attitudes to Denmark leaving the EC if Great Britain does; and forms of address (the deferential 'De' versus the familiar 'du'). # #Omnibus no. 07 (DDA-0407): #Attitudes to continued Danish membership of NATO; development aid; voting intention if a referendum on Danish EC membership were held on the day after the interview; party affiliation; membership of a trade union; trust in politicians; middle or working class affiliations; abortion; Danish EC membership; nuclear power plants; assessment of the Government's performance; the death criterion; and Denmark's economic problems. # #Omnibus no. 08 (DDA-0408): #The Government's performance; Denmark's economic problems and whether they merit the formation of an all-party coalition government; and the economic compromise and the strikes caused by it. # #Omnibus no. 09 (DDA-0409): #Use of public libraries and the proposal to impose a duty on books borrowed from a libray; the Pill and its effects on women's health; assessment of the Government's performance; voting intention if a referendum on Danish EC membership were held on the day after the interview; and opinions of the Government's economic policy. # #Omnibus no. 10 (DDA-0410): #Type of accommodation preferred; the importance of housing problems; and attitudes to the political compromise. # #Omnibus no. 11 (DDA-0411): #Rating of the political parties on a left-right scale; assessment of the Government's performance; the importance of housing problems; attitudes to the political compromise and assessment of its possible consequences; the address of the Lego Concern to Parliament; the coming collective bargaining; and compulsory savings (imposed as part of the political compromise). # #Omnibus no. 12 (DDA-0412): #The initiative of the Danish Trades Union presidents; vote at the referendum on Danish EC membership; voting intention if a referendum were held on the day of the interview; knowledge of speed limits; attitudes to the general fixed speed limits and assessment of their effect; use of car and membership of FDM (Association of Danish Motorists); attitudes to Denmark becoming a republic; and the Danish Royal Family. # #Omnibus no. 13 (DDA-0413): #Unemployment as a consequence of the present economic policy; reasons for the closing down of companies; employers' preference, if any, for a certain unemployment rate; reasons for price rises; membership of a trade union; employment sectors; and rating of the political parties on a left-right scale. # #Omnibus no. 14 (DDA-0414): #The educational opportunities of men and women; women's chances of using their education; natural endowments (apart from physical strength) of women and opportunities on the labour market; assessment of the changes in the total work load of women and whether spouses share the housework; the effects on children of both parents being employed outside the home; women in public life (economics and politics); Women's Lib; and unemployment and the present economic policy. 1 #Omnibus no. 15 (DDA-0415): #Assessment of the Government's performance
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