State Election in North Rhine-Westphalia 1966 (Preliminary Investigation, June 1966)

Political attitudes and judgement on the parties before the state
parliament election.

Topics: Political knowledge; political interest and self-assessment of
political extent to which informed; importance of political
controversies; issue ability of the parties; image profile of the three
major parties; sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU, FDP, NPD and for
various federal politicians; attitude to the election campaign;
assessment of the federal political significance of the state
parliament election in North Rhine-Westphalia; preferred prime
minister; intent to participate in the election; certainty and time of
personal election decision; behavior at the polls in the state
parliament election 1962 and the Federal Parliament election 1962;
reasons for possible change in party voted for; party one cannot vote
for; assumed changes with a change of government in North
Rhine-Westphalia and desired composition of the government; familiarity
of the constituency candidate for the state parliament election;
desired changes of political influence of special interest groups and
associations in the Federal Republic; attitude to the election
campaign; satisfaction with the political system in the Federal
Republic; company size and distance to place of work; membership in
clubs and organizations; ties to the trade union; party orientation of
the organization; judgement on the economic situation; daily newspapers
and magazines read; particularly interesting magazine contents;
personal opinion leadership in various areas.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious
denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational training;
occupation; employment; type of company; composition of household; head
of household; social class; possession of durable economic goods.

Interviewer rating: social class and willingness of respondent to
cooperate; number of contact attempts; city size.