The study was conducted by Ole Borre, Hans Jurgen Nielsen, Steen Sauerberg, and Torben Worre.
The data was collected through interviews from a multi-stage sample of Danish citizens, with age limits varying per part-study.
The data was distributed by the Danish Data Archives, with archive number DDA-0658.
The dataset consists of a merged version of the recurring questions in a number of election studies carried out in the period 1971-1981.
Variables include: political interest; interest in foreign and domestic politics; newspaper reading habits; newspapers read: Berlingske Tidende, Politiken, B.T., Ekstra-Bladet, Jyllands-Posten, Stiftstidender, Liberal Press; number of newspapers read; viewing of and listening to TV and radio election programmes; mass media index; opinion regarding the election campaign on TV; TV watching habits; did R watch election programmes in order to obtain guidance on which party to vote for; did R discuss politics with family, friends, colleagues; was R asked for advice on voting; did R try to persuade anybody to vote for a particular party; party identification and membership; government preference and party thermometer; Social democratic Party; Radical Liberal Party, Conservative People's Party, Single-Tax Party, Socialist People's Party, Communist Party, Centre Democratic Party, Christian People's Party, Liberal Party, Left-wing Socialists, Progress Party; vote at previous general elections; timing of vote decision; reason for party choice; did R consider voting for a different party; vote intention; father's party; most important problem for politician's to solve; best medium from which R obtained information about party attitudes; should we withdraw from NATO; EEC vote today; EEC membership together with Great Britain; views on economic equality; control on private investments; progressive taxation; views on economic industrial democracy; wage freeze; power of trade unions and employers' associations; state intervention; social abuse; radio and TV censorship; indoctrination in school; moral development; strong leader; authoritarian attitude; do politicians care about voters' opinions; are politicians too lavish with tax payers' money; lack of principle in politicians; trust in political leaders; are politics too complicated; knowledge of politics; political self-confidence index; vote in nuclear power referendum; should nuclear power be introduced in Denmark.
Demographic variables include: sex; age; education; marital status; occupation of respondent; branch of industry; employment sector; size of place of work; breadwinner's occupation; derived occupation; housewife's occupation; father's occupation; number of children under 15; type of household; income; household income; type of dwelling; region; urbanisation; class identification; trade union membership; church attendance.