Kiel Election Study 1990

Judgement on parties and politicians immediately before the first
all-German Federal Parliament election. Attitude to political
controversies.

Topics: interest in politics; most important task in the FRG and the
former GDR; issue competence of the parties and politicians; judgement
on the economic situation and further development of the Federal
Republic as well as in the former GDR; voting intent in the impending
Federal Parliament election and behavior at the polls in the last
Federal Parliament election or election for the East German Parliament;
significance of election result for the further development of Germany;
expected election winner; sympathy scale for the parties and top
politicians; judgement on the productivity of the major parties and
politicians; party inclination and party identification; earlier party
inclination; attitude to unification of the two German nations and
assessment of the chances for the country developing from it (scales);
countries which have shown themselves to be true friends during
reunification; national pride; perceived threat from the USSR; attitude
to tax reform and assessment of the position of the major parties on
the topics tax reform, nuclear power plants, abortion, right to asylum,
securing of peace, fight against terrorism, safety of industry
facilities, German unity, Eastern Europe and EC, democracy in the
Soviet Union; the most important of these controversies for one´s own
voting decision; preference for federal chancellor; attitude to market
economic principles and to social differences (scale); city type;
residential status; satisfaction with apartment; preference for public
or private housing construction; religiousness; union membership;
membership in the works council; self-classification of social class;
city size.

Also encoded was: district code.