State Election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1998

Judgement on parties and politicians before the state parliament election.
Political questions on the state parliament election.
Topics:
most important problems in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania;
intent to participate in the next state parliament election in
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania;
preference for absentee ballot;
party preference (first vote and second vote as well as party one likes best);
party inclination and party identification;
time and certainty of one's voting decision;
significance of the state parliament election in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
at federal level;
behavior at the polls in the last state parliament election;
coalition preference;
PDS toleration;
sympathy scale for the CDU, SPD, PDS at federal level as well as
sympathy scale for the CDU, SPD and the PDS at state level;
satisfaction scale for the achievements of the state government
in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania as well as of the individual partners CDU and SPD;
achievement of the PDS opposition;
satisfaction scale for the achievements of the Federal Government,
the CDU, the CSU and the FDP in the Federal Government;
degree of familiarity of the top candidates for the office of prime minister;
sympathy scale for top politicians in the state and at federal level;
interst in politics;
preference for prime minister;
comparison of credibility, energy, sympathy, responsibility,
expertise of the two top candidates Bernd Seite and Harald Ringstorff;
judgement on the general economic situation in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and
one's own economic situation;
expected economic situation for Mecklenburg-West Pomerania;
comparison of the economic situation of the state
with the rest of Eastern Germany;
most able party in the areas business, job creation, fight against crime
and future problems of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania;
personal feeling of danger from crime;
judgement on the current prime minister;
dealing of the parties with the PDS and credibility of renaming the SED as PDS;
expected election winner in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania;
expectation that the FDP, the Greens and the DVU
will take seats in the state parliament;
judgement on the DVU taking seats in the state parliament.
Demography:
eligible to vote in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania;
city size;
age (classified);
marital status;
living together with a partner;
school completion;
completed apprenticeship;
employment;
assessment of jeopardy to one's own job;
occupational position;
household size;
number of members of household 18 years old and older;
primary earner;
employment of primary earner;
occupational position and vocational certificate of primary earner;
union member in household;
religious affiliation;
religiousness;
unemployment or jeopardy to job of close persons;
sex.