State Election in North Rhine-Westphalia 1970 (Preliminary Investigation)

Political attitudes, party ties as well as judgements on parties and
politicians.

Topics: Political interest and self-assessment of political extent to
which informed; sources of information used about politics and
judgement on their credibility; media usage; preference for political
television broadcasts; satisfaction with democracy in the FRG; scale of
importance of political problems; issue ability of the parties;
sympathy for certain politicians; sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU, FDP
and NPD; satisfaction with state government and sympathy gains or
losses of the parties since the Federal Parliament election 1969;
parties voted for since 1949 and behavior at the polls in the Federal
Parliament election 1969 (first vote and second vote); party preference
and party ties; party inclination of family and friends and political
conversations with friends and acquaintances; certainty of personal
election decision; interest in the election result and assumed
significance of the state parliament election for the Federal Republic;
preferred prime minister and federal chancellor; attitude to the
election campaign, the Germany question and protest of young people;
importance of areas of life; judgement on the economic situation of the
FRG and one´s own economic situation in comparison over time;
self-assessment of social class; membership in clubs and organizations
and assessment of party inclination of organizations; interest and ties
to trade unions; party preference and party ties of parents; judgement
on political interest of parents in the time of Hitler; general
contentment with life; religiousness and assessment of distribution of
religious affiliation in the residential area; local residency and
satisfaction with housing; type of housing; type of city.

Scales: dogmatism, democracy, nationalism and sexual morals.

Demography: age (classified); sex; religious denomination; school
education; occupation; employment; household income; size of household;
composition of household; head of household; social origins; refugee
status.

Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate; general
political extent to which informed of respondent; political interest of
respondent; number of contact attempts; length of interview; weekday of
interview.