State Election in Schleswig-Holstein 1988

Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; most important political problems in
Schleswig-Holstein; intent to participate in the election; party
preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure) at the state
level; behavior at the polls in the last state parliament election;
sympathy scale for the parties on state and federal level as well as
for the top state politicians; preference for prime minister; attitude
to an absolute majority for one of the major parties; preferred
government coalition; assumed coalition behavior of the FDP; comparison
of the economic situation in Schleswig-Holstein with that of the rest
of the Federal Republic; ability of a CDU or CDU/FDP or SPD-led state
government to improve the economic situation; judgement on support of
top candidates of SPD and CDU by their parties; assumed probability and
attitude to taking seats in State Parliament by the FDP and the Greens;
significance of the election result for the future of the state;
judgement on the situation of farmers and efforts of the state
government to improve the situation of farmers; attitude to use of
nuclear energy; preferred political party regarding economic policy,
nuclear energy, education policies and moral renewal; assumed winner in
the next state parliament election; probability of an absolute majority
for the SPD; attitude to termination of discussion about the Barschel
affair; city size.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious
denomination; frequency of church attendance; school degree; vocational
training; college degree; occupational position; employment;
journeymen´s test; activity in the civil service; military rank; number
of persons 18 years old and older in household; respondent is head of
household; characteristics of head of household; union memberships in
household.