Social Structures and Political Attitudes in Baden-Wuerttemberg (November 1987)

Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; party preference (Sunday question and rank
order procedure) at state and federal level; certainty of one´s voting
decision; behavior at the polls in the last state parliament and
Federal Parliament elections; parties one cannot vote for; sympathy
scale for the parties at state and federal level; satisfaction with the
state government and opposition (scale); sympathy scale for state and
federal politicians; agreement of one´s own personal interests with
those of a party; attitude to taking seats in state parliament by the
FDP and the Greens; preferred government coalition and preference for
prime minister; attitude to an absolute majority for the CDU; judgement
on the reliability of the FDP as coalition partner for the CDU; assumed
position of the FDP in a CDU/FDP coalition; self-assessment as well as
classification of the parties on a left-right continuum; judgement on
the general economic situation in Baden-Wuerttemberg and comparison
with the economic situation in the rest of the Federal Republic;
assumed economic development in Baden-Wuerttemberg; judgement on the
efforts of the state government to support one´s own region, of large
businesses, of small companies as well as of Greater Stuttgart; issue
relevance; issue competence of the parties and possible state
governments; attitude to tax reform and assumed group with a higher
relief; effects of tax reform on tax equity; consent with the form of
financing the tax reform; attitude to expansion of the Stuttgart
airport; judgement on the situation of farmers and wine-growers in the
state; personal responsibility or institution responsible for the bad
situation of farmers and wine-growers; judgement on support of farmers
by the state government; agriculture or wine-growing as second
occupation; attitude to a stop in the influx of foreigners, making
abortion more difficult, intensification of criminal law regarding
demonstrations as well as abandoning nuclear energy (scale); judgement
on the attitude of parties on these topics (scale); assumed election
winner; assumed absolute majority for the CDU; knowledge about the
election procedure.

Demography: year of birth and month of birth; sex; marital status;
religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school
education; occupational position; employment; assessment of personal
occupational position in comparison to that of father; number of
persons 18 years old and older in household; respondent is head of
household; characteristics of head of household; party inclination;
party identification; union memberships in household.

Also encoded was: administrative district and city size.