Spring Study 1989

Attitude to current political questions and to the European Community.

Topics: fear of the future; judgement on the current economic
situation of the FRG and future development; interest in politics;
feeling of political effectiveness; most important political problems
in the Federal Republic; issue competence of the parties; preference
for national or EC-wide problem solutions; party inclination and party
identification; party inclination in principle or based on the
situation; personal change in party voted for; behavior at the polls in
the last Federal Parliament election and European Election;
satisfaction with the elected party; party preference (ballot
procedure); eligibility of the Republicans and attitude to this party´s
taking seats in the Federal Parliament; the feeling that politics has
failed in important matters; sympathy scale for the major parties;
self-classification and classification of the parties on a left-right
continuum; national pride; attitude to the right for foreigners to vote
in municipal elections; significance of municipal, state, Federal and
European elections; identity as a European; importance of a united
Western Europe; advantages and disadvantages for the country from EC
membership; acceptance of disadvantages to support poorer EC countries;
knowledge about the European Parliament in Strassburg; evaluation of
the work of the European Parliament; progress or steps backward for
Europe since the last European Election; importance of the coming
European Election; intent to participate in the next European Election;
most important reasons for or against election participation;
preference in the European Election (ballot procedure); certainty of
one´s voting decision; influence of Western European unification on the
reunification of Germany; preference for European currency or national
currency; preferred further development of the EC and desired speed of
unification; achieving or deferring national interests in the EC;
appropriateness of Germany´s payments to the EC; familiarity of changes
in payments to the EC; familiarity of the European domestic market and
hopes and fears connected with it; reasons for these fears; desired
relationship between Europe and the USA; most competent party regarding
Europe; politicians making particular efforts for Europe; general
evaluation of EC membership of the Federal Republic; religiousness;
ties to church; employment in the civil service; worker, employee or
civil servant; fear of short time work or unemployment;
self-classification of social class; union membership and solidarity
with the union; possession of a telephone; number of eligible voters in
the household.

Also encoded were: length of interview; date of interview; city size.