Regional Election Investigation (Rhineland-Palatinate)

Nationalist tendencies in the constituency in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Topics: Judgement on one´s own economic situation in comparison to
earlier; expectations of future economic development (Katona
questions); political knowledge; politician scale; sympathy scale for
the SPD, CDU, FDP and NPD; knowledge about party affiliation of state
politicians; attitude to the NPD; semantic differential for the FDP;
characteristics of an ideal party; preferred coalition at state level;
evaluation of state government; attitude to selected questions of state
politics and a three-party system; associations with the term
´national´; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election
1965 and in the state parliament election 1963; voting intent in the
next state parliament election; party preference (Sunday question and
pair comparison); religiousness; memberships.

Scales: nationalism, understanding of democracy, antisemitism.

Demography: possession of durable economic goods; head of household;
marital status; employment; occupation; age (classified); school
education; vocational training; sources of information; refugee status;
sex.

Interviewer rating: social class and willingness of respondent to
cooperate; number of contact attempts; city size.