State Election in Rhineland-Palatinate 1987

Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; intent to participate in the election;
party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure) in the
state parliament and Federal Parliament elections; behavior at the
polls in the last state and Federal Parliament elections; certainty of
one´s voting decision; personal change in party voted for; satisfaction
with the state government and opposition (scale); sympathy scale for
the political parties and for the top politicians in the state;
preference for prime minister; attitude to an absolute majority for one
of the major parties; preferred government coalition; issue relevance
and issue competence of possible state governments; comparison of the
economic situation in Rhineland-Palatinate with that in the rest of the
Federal Republic; judgement on the situation of farmers and
wine-growers in the state; personal responsibility or institution
responsible for the bad situation of the farmers and wine-growers;
judgement on support of farmers and wine-growers by the state
government; attitude to nuclear power plants; assumed probability as
well as attitude to taking seats in state parliament by the FDP, the
Greens as well as the Independent Voter Communities; assumed winner in
the next state parliament election.

Demography: month and year of birth; sex; marital status; religious
denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education;
occupational position; employment; number of persons in household 18
years old or older; relationship of respondent to head of household;
characteristics of head of household; party inclination and party
identification; characterization of residential surroundings according
to occupational groups; union membership.

Also encoded was: district code; state.