Forsa-Bus 1998

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>Most important political topics;
expected economic situation and
expected development of personal living conditions;
greatest problems in Germany;
federal chancellor preference;
most able party in the Federal Republic;
behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election and
state parliament election;
party preference at state and Federal level (Sunday question);
party inclination and party identification;
interest in politics;
satisfaction with democracy;
satisfaction with the job of the Federal Government and the opposition;
self-assessment on a left-right continuum;
sympathy scale for the CDU, CSU, SPD, PDS,
Alliance 90/the Greens, FDP, Republicans;
media use (newspaper and TV news).
Demography:
sex;
year of birth;
marital status;
living together with a partner;
employment;
professional position;
occupational training;
school education;
household size;
members of the household under 14 years old and their year of birth;
religious affiliation;
frequency of church attendance;
union membership;
party membership;
citizenship;
monthly net income.
Also encoded was:
state;
city size;
date of interview;
weekday of interview.