Federal Parliament Election 1972 (Panel: 2nd Wave, October 1971 - January 1972)

Judgement on parties and politicians, behavior at the polls and
political attitudes.

Topics: political interest and most important political event in the
past year; preferred federal chancellor (rank order procedure); image
of the candidates for Federal Chancellor Brandt and Barzel (semantic
differential); issue competence of the parties; good and bad sides of
the parties; party preference (ballot procedure and rank order
procedure); sympathy scale for SPD, CDU/CSU, FDP, NPD and DKP; party
identification; party inclination of close persons; most important
tasks of the Federal Republic; attitude to voting and to political
participation (scale); understanding of democracy (scale);
self-assessment of social class and assignment of social class of
parents; political discussions in parental home; party sympathies of
parents and of spouse; job satisfaction and political discussions at
work; politicians and parties judged positively or negatively by
colleagues; personal change in party voted for and parties voted for in
Federal Parliament elections up to now; personal intent to participate
in the election, differentiated according to Federal Parliament
election, state parliament election and municipal election; behavior at
the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; splitting; party
sympathy of reference person; importance of removal of environmental
pollution; importance of price stability (even at the cost of jobs) and
securing peace through negotiations with the Soviet Union, as well as
issue competence of the parties and politicians in these areas;
judgement on economic development, on one´s own economic situation and
on one´s own income development in the next few years; reasons for the
expected economic development; self-image of respondent (semantic
differential).

Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education; vocational
training; further education; employment; professional career;
self-assessment of social class; social origins.

Interviewer rating: date of interview; interest of respondent in the
interview.