Comparative Election Study 1990 (Political Conversation Partners)

Recording the communication processes between the political system and
the voter. Political attitudes; judgement on parties and politicians.
Topics: Judgement on the current economic situation in the Federal
Republic and expectation for the next year; judgement on the current
economic situation in the new states and expectation for the next year;
most able governing party for positive economic development in the FRG;
interest in politics; regularly reading the Bild tabloid; daily
newspapers regularly read; preference for parties in the election
campaign by the daily newspapers named; most important political
problems in the FRG; postmaterialism; intent to participate in the
election; party preference (first vote and second vote); expected
winner of the coming Federal Parliament election; sympathy scale for
Federal Chancellor Kohl and candidate for chancellor Lafontaine;
preference for federal chancellor; self-classification on a left-right
continuum; preference for governmental or non-governmental solution of
the economic problems in the new states; assumed position of the
individual parties on this question; attitude to restriction of the
right to asylum, the question of abortion as well as assumed position
of the parties on these questions; preference of financing the costs of
unity of the nation through increased indebtedness or tax increase and
assumed position of the parties on this question; behavior at the polls
in the last Federal Parliament election or in the election to the
Berlin House of Representatives; membership in organizations, trade
union, associations and initiatives; personally most important
organizations; membership in a party; religious affiliation;
religiousness; year of birth; month of birth; sex; occupational
position; frequency of political discussion with the primary
respondent; stating the political topics discussed and frequency of
different opinions. Interviewer rating: presence of other persons
during the interview; interventions of other persons in the course of
the interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate; classification
of reliability of respondent; length of interview; date of interview;
identification of interviewer; sex of interviewer; age of interviewer.