Federal Survey 1978 (1st Wave, March 1978)

Judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; most important political tasks in the
Federal Republic and issue ability of the parties and politicians;
judgement on economic situation of the country; party preference
(ballot procedure); most important politicians in the CDU/CSU, FDP and
SPD; self-classification and placing the parties on a left-right
continuum; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament
election 1976; judgement on the new composition of the Federal
Government; judgement on questions of securing of pensions and the
draft law on the fight against terrorism; preferred form of forming a
coalition in the Federal Government.

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;
possession of a telephone; car possession; possession of a weekend or
vacation home; possession of swimming pool, sauna, sailboat, motorboot,
mobile home or trailer; type, brand and year of manufacture of trailer;
purchased new or used; possession of bank account as well as power of
attorney for an account of another person; year of construction of
residential building.

Interviewer rating: date of interview and length of interview.