Politbarometer 1977-2024 (Partial Cumulation)

The Politbarometer has been conducted since 1977 on an almost monthly basis by the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen on behalf of the Second German Television (ZDF). Since 1990, this database has also been available for the new German states. The survey focuses on the opinions and attitudes of the voting-age population in the Federal Republic on current political issues, parties, politicians, and voting behavior. From 1990 to 1995 and from 1999 onward, the Politbarometer surveys were conducted separately both in the newly formed eastern and in the western German states (Politbarometer East and Politbarometer West). The separate monthly surveys of a year are integrated into a cumulative data set that includes all surveys of a year and all variables of the respective year. Starting in 2003, the Politbarometer short surveys, collected with varying frequency throughout the year, are integrated into the annual cumulation.
This partial accumulation contains 80 selected variables from the 1977 to 2024 annual cumulated data sets that were collected more than once.<br>Cumulated data set comprising 74 selected time series from the Politbarometer surveys 1977 to 2024.

1. Topics: Voting intent and party preference (Sunday question); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; sympathy scale for the parties; satisfaction with the achievement of the Federal Government and the achievements of the opposition parties; satisfaction with democracy; the right politicians in leading positions; interest in politics of respondent; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; judgement on the economic situation in the Federal Republic and assumed further development; ability of the government or opposition to secure jobs, improve the economic situation and improve environmental protection; attitude to reunification of the two German nations; attitude to the right to asylum in Germany; evaluation of various views on the topic abortion; most important problems in the Federal Republic; eligiousness; union membership.

2. Demography: denomination; frequency of church visits; sex; age; marital status; cohabitation with a partner; education; completed vocational training; university degree; educational aspiration level; occupation; occupational group; size of household; head of household; own job hazard; party affiliation; party identification; trade union member in the household; federal state; city size.

3. Archive variables and Paradata: study number, version, digital object identifier (DOI), respondent ID, survey ID, month and year of survey, split questionnaire version, representative weight, total weight.