The planned comparative analysis of Swiss, Austrian, and French questionnaires never saw completion

Evidence

Lazarsfeld’s involvement was also essential to the further analysis of the questionnaires on attitudes to authority and family among young people. The preliminary processing of the Austrian material was carried out by Käthe Leichter, who had proved her abilities with the Swiss questionnaires. She was also suggested by Lazarsfeld as an assistant for work on the French material. What was to be produced finally from all this was a comparative presentation of the Swiss, Austrian and French research results. Lazarsfeld hoped to be able to analyse the second half of the Swiss questionnaire sheets statistically for this, since they had not been available to him for his contribution to Studies on Authority and the Family. But the project was never completed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 692

Categorization

• QUESTION: What fate befell the unanalysed second half of the Swiss questionnaire data? Worth chasing if reconstructing the Institute’s empirical archive.