Political Attitudes and Social Moral Orientations in the Federal Republic 1986

Judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; intent to participate in the election for
Federal Parliament; party preference (ballot procedure as well as rank
order procedure); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament
election; sympathy scale for the parties and leading politicians;
satisfaction with government and opposition; attitude to an absolute
majority for one party; preferred government coalition; issue relevance
and issue competence of the parties or possible coalitions; assumed
differences of opinion within the government coalition between CDU/CSU
and FDP regarding these issues; preferred conduct of SPD or Greens in
view of formation of a government; assumed winner of the Federal
Parliament election; satisfaction with the political system; judgement
on the role of the FDP in the government coalition; attitude to making
abortion easier, a change in the right to asylum, abandoning nuclear
energy, equally good relations with the USA and the Soviet Union as
well as to combating unemployment with government employment programs
(scale); assumed attitude of the parties to these questions (scales);
classification of the parties and self-classification on a left-right
continuum; desired social-political right to a say for the churches or
the trade unions (scales); feeling of being represented by a party;
ideas about current society (scale); attitude to different statements
of willingness to form a coalition by the FDP at federal or state
level; attitude to nuclear power plants; preferred time interval for
shut-down of nuclear power plants; assumed probability of a nuclear
accident in a German nuclear power plant; social mobility.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance; school education; occupational
position; employment; respondent is head of household; characteristics
of head of household; party inclination; party identification; union
membership; number of persons in household 18 years old and older; size
of household; degree of relationship of respondent to head of
household; characterization of residential surroundings according to
occupational groups; comparison of personal occupational position and
that of one´s own father; comparison of occupational position of
husband and that of one´s own father.

Interviewer rating: date of interview; place of interview.

Also encoded was: district code; city size.