Comparative Election Study 1990 (Primary Respondents, 2nd Wave)

Recording the communication processes between the political system and
the voter. Political attitudes; media usage; judgement on parties and
politicians. Topics: Judgement on the current economic situation in the
Federal Republic and expectation for the next year; interest in
politics; judgement on political reporting in the daily newspapers
preferred by the respondent as well as in selected television stations;
classification of these media with preferential treatment of individual
parties; television set in household; opportunity to receive RTL plus
and SAT 1; most important problems in the Federal Republic; intent to
participate in the election; party preference (first vote and second
vote); knowledge about the significance of first vote and second vote;
expected winner of the coming Federal Parliament election; sympathy
scale for Federal Chancellor Kohl and candidate for chancellor
Lafontaine; preference for federal chancellor; preference for
governmental or market economy solution of the economic problems in the
new states; assumed position of the individual parties on this
question; attitude to restriction of the right to asylum, to the
question of abortion as well as assumed positions of the parties;
preference for new indebtedness or tax increase to finance German unity
and assumed position of the parties; membership in associations,
organizations and initiatives; rank order of the individual importance
of these organizations; participation in activities and receipt of
publications of the three most important organizations; assumed party
allegiance of these organizations; selected associations, organizations
as well as churches and their willingness to support the individual
parties in the coming Federal Parliament election; party membership;
intensity of contacts with the parties in the course of the election
campaign in form of brochures, participation in election events or
personal contacts with election helpers or candidates; frequency of
political conversations with partner through life; common or different
political conviction; frequency of political conversations with the
conversation partner named in the first interview wave; stating
political topics mentioned and frequency of different opinions;
religious affiliation; year of birth; month of birth; possession of a
telephone. In the East the following was also asked: behavior at the
polls in the last state parliament election (second vote). Interviewer
rating: presence of other persons during the interview; interventions
of other persons in the course of the interview; willingness of
respondent to cooperate; classification of reliability of respondent;
length of interview; date of interview; identification of interviewer;
sex of interviewer; age of interviewer.