Federal Parliament Election 1965 (Follow-Up Survey, November 1965)

1. Judgement on politicians and parties a few weeks after the Federal
Parliament election.
2. attitudes to party financing.
3. assessment of the reputation of the Federal Republic in the rest of the world.
4. attitude to other political questions.

Topics: 1. sympathy scale for SPD, CDU/CSU and FDP as well as for the
most important federal politicians; change in party sympathy since the
last Federal Parliament election; judgement on coalition negotiations;
most important political problems in the FRG; importance of areas of
life; judgement on one´s own economic situation and the economic
situation in the Federal Republic.

2. judgement on various possibilities for party financing; assumed
origin of the financial means in the election campaign financing of the
individual parties.

3. judgement on support for German interests by foreign nations;
assessment of the relative reputation of various nations; judgement on
the development of the reputation of the Federal Republic in the last 5
years.

4. interest in political participation; party membership or reasons
for non-membership; attitude to the Federal German Armed Forces and to
nuclear weapons; assessment of the importance of various measures in
the area of education policy; attitude to co-determination; membership
in clubs and organizations as well as party inclination of these
organizations; religiousness.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; family composition;
religious denomination; school education; vocational training;
occupation; employment; head of household; party preference; party
membership; self-assessment of social class; state; refugee status;
possession of durable economic goods.

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