Federal Survey 1978 (3rd Wave, September 1978)

Judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; most important tasks in the Federal
Republic and issue ability of parties and politicians; judgement on
current economic development of the country; party preference (ballot
procedure); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament
election; behavior at the polls given a hypothetical nation-wide
separation of CDU and CSU; judgement on the tax and economic program of
the Federal Government; judgement on the coming Federal President
election; coalition preference; desired position of the FDP; judgement
on the Green Lists and a tax party; election chances of the Green Lists
in comparison to those of a tax party; personal voting intent for such
parties; characterization of the Green Lists as well as of the tax
party (semantic differential); behavior at the polls in the last
Federal Parliament election.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of
children (classified); religious denomination; frequency of church
attendance; school education; occupational position; employment;
income; household income; size of household; composition of household;
respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household;
party inclination; party identification; self-assessment of social
class; city size; state; union membership; party inclination; party
identification; number of persons in household with their own income.

Interviewer rating: length of interview.