Politics in Baden-Wuerttemberg (1980)

Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians in
Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Topics: First wave: satisfaction with life in Baden-Wuerttemberg;
judgement on one´s own and the general economic situation; political
interest; importance of political conversations; party preference
(ballot procedure and rank order procedure); intent to participate in
the state parliament election; certainty of one´s voting decision and
reasons for one´s voting decision; voting decision at the last state
parliament and Federal Parliament election; personal change in party
voted for since 1949; sympathy scale for the political parties in the
Federal Republic and the leading state politicians; perceived
importance of the composition of state government; satisfaction with
the state government and opposition; knowledge about the prime minister
and his party affiliation; preference for prime minister; judgement on
the importance of an environmental protection party; interest in the
election of an environmental protection party and assumed taking seats
by such a Green List in the state parliament; self-classification on a
left-right continuum; personal party inclination as well as that of
family; probability of attending an election event; presence at home in
the last few days; self-assessment of social class affiliation;
religiousness; union membership.

Interviewer rating: type of place of residence; reliability of
respondent; date of interview; length of interview.

Second wave: most important political problems for the Federal
Republic or Baden-Wuerttemberg; issue relevance; issue ability of the
parties; preferred influence of the state government opposed to the
Federal Government regarding these issues; reasons for one´s own
election participation; party preference (ballot procedure) and
certainty of voting decision in the state parliament election; most
important reasons for the voting decision (scale); profile of
characteristics for political parties (semantic differential);
preferred measures to improve the school system in Baden-Wuerttemberg
(scale); interest in problems of energy supply; attitude to nuclear
energy (scale); judgement on the energy supply in the Federal Republic
(scale); attitude to youth (scale); party preference at the federal
level (Sunday question); importance of election results for oneself;
certainty of election participation in the next Federal Parliament
election; preference for federal chancellor; undesired federal
chancellor; ability of Schmidt and Strauss in coping with an
international crisis; judgement on the social-liberal coalition and
opposition in Bonn; satisfaction with democracy in the Federal
Republic; political interest and personal participation in politics;
judgement on one´s own possibilities to exert political influence;
complexity of politics; feeling of degree of representation by
politicians and parties; type and judgement on personal retirement
program; personal unemployment experiences; personal job market chances
and unemployment concerns; commuter; residential status; information on
activities and ages of children.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance; school education; occupational
position; employment; household income; household size; household
composition; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head
of household; self-assessment of social class; union membership.

Interviewer rating: reliability of respondent; length of interview;
degree of urbanization.

Also encoded was: ZIP (postal) code; presence of respondent at home in
the last few days.