The Nuremberg Barometer : Quality of life and community politics 2010 from the perspective of the citizens

Abstract

"As in every year, the Chair of Sociology and Empirical Social Research at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg also ran an elaborate applied teaching and research project in the academic year 2010/11 within the BA study programme 'Social Economics'. As had already been the case in 2002 and 2006, the project of that year focussed, along with 'pure' municipal policy, on important thematic areas of the quality of life in Nuremberg, including, for instance, trust in institutions, attitudes to municipal traffic projects, expectations with regard to the educational system, criminality and feelings of security, cultural and media consumption, migration and integration, etc. To collect data, a mixed-method approach was chosen in which several different survey methods were used: telephone and online surveys; group discussions with experts; and analysis of the content of the local press. The findings resulting herefrom were correlated with each other and linked up. The report centres on various topics extracted from the partial project 'computer-aided telephone survey'. These are compared - at least where possible - with the corresponding empirical results from 2006 and occasionally from 2002." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)

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Wittenberg, R. & Vicari, B. (2011): Nürnberg-Barometer: Lebensqualität und Kommunalpolitik 2010 aus Sicht der Einwohnerschaft. (Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Soziologie und Empirische Sozialforschung. Arbeits- und Diskussionspapiere 2011-02), Nürnberg, 81 p.