Choice ´95 Parliamentary Election in Estonia 1995

Moral orientations, questions on the political system and
behavior at the polls.
Topics: Importance of areas of life such as friends, family, work,
leisure time, politics and faith; frequency of political discusions
with friends; general trust in other people; earlier and current
membership in organizations; agreement of activities of political
parties with personal views; stand on the party system; preference
for individual interests or for the development of society, the
nation as well as of collectives; preference for development of
society or for development of the nation; agreement of one´s own
views with those of contemporaries, friends, family, colleagues,
society; preference for freedom or equality; self-classification on a
left-right continuum; geographic identity of respondent; judgement on
financial situation in comparison to neighbors; belonging to
religious communities; ethnic affiliation; dialect at home, at work
as well as in public life; foreign language abilities; language
knowledge relative to the minority or majority of the country;
interest in politics; participation in social life; reading
newspapers and interest in political articles; frequency of watching
news broadcasts; trust in selected political and social institutions;
the government as representation of interests of the people; trust in
the government; postmaterialism; assumed trust of the population in a
better future; preferred business leadership; satisfaction with
opposition and government; judgement on the speed of changes in the
country; satisfaction with democracy; clarity of political events;
intents to emigrate; preferred emigration country; election
participation 1990; possession and efforts to obtain Estonian
citizenship; election participation 1992; discussion about possible
result of the parliament elections 1992 with friends and relatives;
reasons for voting decision; election memory 1992; agreement of
personal choice and election winner; fulfillment of the expectations
of the elected representative; election memory regarding the
presidential election; issue ability of the parties and election
organizations; readiness of respondent to give information about his
behavior at the polls; participation in earlier elections and future
election participation; extent to which informed about election
system and election candidates; ability to explain direct election of
representatives and supplementary votes of parties; most important
sources of information about election candidates; classification of
trustworthiness of selected sources of information about election
candidates; party preference; election precinct of respondent; most
important reasons for voting decision; extent of discussion about
voting decision with family members, friends, colleagues and club
members; certainty of one´s voting decision; personal participation
in election campaign; classification of election as democratic.
Also encoded was: language in which the questionnaire was written.