Forsa-Bus 2019

The Forsa Bus is conducted by the Forsa polling institute. Based on representative samples, the program surveys about 500 people eligible to vote each day by telephone and asks about individual attitudes on various political and social issues. The Forsa Bus is currently available from 1991 onwards. The datasets include parts from omnibus surveys, while the focus of the collection is the survey of political preferences, both for candidates and parties, as well as voting behaviour in past elections.<br>Federal Chancellor preference for Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer or Andrea Nahles, for Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer or Olaf Scholz, for Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer or Robert Habeck or for Olaf Scholz or Robert Habeck; economic expectations for Germany; most competent party to solve the problems in the Federal Republic; voting behaviour in the last federal and state elections; party preference at federal and state level (Sunday question).

Demography: Sex; age (year of birth); marital status; living with a partner; gainful employment; group membership if not gainfully employed; education; occupational status and characteristics; household size; number of children in the household under 18 years of age; net household income; denomination; trade union member in the household.

Additionally coded: Federal state; administrative district; district code number; political community size class; survey area west/east; interview date (year, month, day); weekday of the interview; survey period (week); sample: selection frame ( landline, mobile); weighting factors.