State Election in Rhineland-Palatinate 1967 (Preliminary Investigation)

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

Topics: Political knowledge and political extent to which informed;
most important problems of the Federal Republic; attitude to the
European Economic Community (EEC); issue ability of the parties;
attitude to the NPD; sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU, FDP, NPD as well
as for federal and state politicians; satisfaction with Prime Minister
Altmeier and the Federal Government of Erhard (scale); preferred prime
minister; degree of familiarity of the state parliament delegate in the
respective constituency; expected changes with a change of government;
personal attitude and assumed attitudes of the parties to expanding
Rhineland-Palatinate; personal intent to participate in the election
and possible reasons for non-participation in the election; party
preference and voting intent in the state parliament election; behavior
at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1965 and possible
change in party voted for; changes of sympathy for the parties in the
last few months; point in time and reason for the voting decision;
party identification; party one cannot vote for; judgement on the
result of the coalition negotiations in North Rhine-Westphalia;
attitude to religious or community schools; importance of school
educational goals and assessment of their fulfillment by the schools;
most able party in school questions; attitudes to the school law in
Rhineland-Palatinate; attitudes to hippies, conscientious objection,
suicide and extra-marital sex relations; judgement on the economic
situation; membership in clubs and organizations and party political
inclination of these organizations; stays abroad; change of occupation
and job; social origins.

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

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