Attitude to Unification of the Two German Nations (August 1990)

Judgement on parties and politicians as well as political attitudes.
Judgement on German unification.

Topics: Confidence in the future; judgement on the general as well as
one´s own current economic situation as well as the economic situation
in a year in the Federal Republic and the GDR; assessment of the
development of unemployment in the Federal Republic and the GDR; most
important problems and ability of the parties to solve them; party
inclination; judgement on the speed of unification and unification of
the two German nations; ability of the Federal Government as well as
the SPD in questions of unification; party preference (second vote,
rank order procedure); certainty of one´s voting decision; judgement on
the chances of the FDP, the Greens, the Republicans, the PDS in an
all-German election; issue relevance; issue ability of the parties;
assumed effects of unification on the stability of monetary value and
the standard of living in East and West; judgement on the time of
economic and currency union; estimated point in time of an economic
improvement in the GDR; assessment of the capability of the FRG to
build the economy in the GDR (FRG); readiness of the FRG to build up
the GDR economy (posed in the GDR); behavior at the polls in the last
Federal Parliament election; fear of unemployment; ties to church;
solidarity with trade unions; union membership; visit to the FRG or GDR
after opening of the wall.

Also encoded was: date of interview and length of interview;
identification of interviewer.