Quick Survey on the Federal Parliament Election 2005

Attitude towards parties and politicians for the parliamentary elections.
Political questions.

Topics: Most important issues in Germany; voting intention at the
parliamentary elections; preference for postal vote; party preference
(first vote, second vote and ranking); date of the respondent`s
election decision; eligibility of not preferred parties; voting
behaviour at the last parliamentary elections (recall); coalition
preference; attitude towards the coalition constellations: SPD and die
Grünen, CDU/CSU and FDP, SPD and CDU/CSU, SPD with die Grünen and die
Linke/PDS, and so called traffic-light-coalition (SPD, die Grünen and
FDP); the most competent party to resolve the problems in
Germany; assessment of the chances of a red green majority; expected
formation of a government from SPD with die Linke/PDS; sympathy scale
for selected parties; satisfaction with the performance of the Federal
Government as well as the two ruling parties; satisfaction with the
performance of the CDU/CSU and FDP in the opposition in the Bundestag;
sympathy scale for selected leading politicians on Federal level;
sympathy for selected parties; satisfaction with democracy in Germany;
interest in politics; assignment of the features progressiveness,
reliability and social to SPD, CDU/CSU, die Grünen, FDP or die
Linke/PDS; Chancellor preference (Schröder or Merkel); assessment of
the reliability, the sympathy, the expertise and Merkel´s and
Schröder`s in creating new jobs; judgement of the present economic
situation in Germany; the most competent party to resolve the
economic problems in Germany; judgement of the own economic situation;
assessment of the trend of one`s own economic situation and the
economic situation of Germany; the most competent party for creating
jobs, at securing pensions, in the fiscal policy, for the adjustment of
the living conditions between east and west, for the solution of the
future problems; evaluation of the benefits of Paul Kirchhof for the
CDU/CSU; assessment of the condition of the social system; the most
competent government to resolve the problems in the social
system and for the price reduction of gasoline; identification
of the respondent as German, West German or East German; attitude
towards a woman as a candidate for the chancellorship as well as
significance for the own election decision; attitude towards the
reforms carried out as well as assessment of the effectiveness of these
reforms; attitude for the reform suggestions of CDU/CSU; expected
election winner; personal importance of the parliamentary elections for
the respondent; assessment of the preparations of Germany on future
challenges; desire for change of government; opinion on Angela Merkel
or alternative politician for an election success of the CDU/CSU; self
classification on a left-right continuum. Addition in Split A:
Assessment of the assertiveness, the better government leadership, the
ability to succeed with German interests internationally, the better
government team, the problem solving competence and judgement of the
winner type of Merkel or Schröder; assessment of the effects of the
value-added tax increase planned by CDU on unemployment; judgement of
the work of Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder; assessment of the work
of Angela Merkel as a Federal Chancellor; personal importance for the
respondent at the parliamentary elections: government composition or
person of the Federal Chancellor.

Addition in Split B: The most competent party for the solution of the
finance problems in the health policy, in the ecological policy, in the
family policy, in the education policy and in the foreign policy;
attitude towards Turkey joining the EU; assumption about a planned
value-added tax increase on the part of SPD; opinion about the chances
of an entry of die Grünen and die Linke/PDS into parliament.

Demography: age (categorized); marital status; living together with a
partner; children; children under 13 years in the household; age of the
children; school-leaving qualification; university degree (in East
Germany: recognition of the polytechnic degree); completed
apprenticeship; occupation; job security; professional position;
household size; number of persons in the household 18 years and older;
main wage earner in the household; characteristics of the householder;
labour union membership; denomination; frequency of church attendance;
unemployment or endangerment of employment in the nearer social
environment; party inclination; party identification; federal state;
size of place.