Politics in the Saarland (September 1979)

Judgement on parties and politicians in the Saarland as well as at
federal level. Attitude to current political questions.

Topics: judgement on the economic situation in the Saarland and in the
FRG; most important tasks in the Saarland and preferred politician;
importance of political issues and issue ability of the parties; degree
of familiarity of Saarland politicians and their functions; judgement
on their political job; party preference in the state parliament
election, the Federal Parliament election and the municipal elections
(ballot procedure); assumed reasons for the loss of votes by the CDU
and the gain in votes by the SPD and FDP in the municipal election;
assumed election result of the state election 1980; satisfaction with
the government and the opposition (scale); judgement on the achievement
of the coalition government and the most important measures of the
state government in economic policy, education policies, social policy
and in environmental protection; expected influence of the FDP on the
politics of the state government; image of the CDU, the SPD and the FDP
(semantic differentials); sympathy scale for the state chairmen of the
parties and judgement on their ability as well as their issue
competence; preferred top politicians for a coalition government;
currently most active party; attitude to the current state government
and to a continuation of the coalition after the state parliament
elections; assumed election result and assumed performance of the FDP;
behavior at the polls given refusal of the FDP to continue the
coalition with the CDU; attitude to Strauss as candidate for
chancellor; influence of the candidacy for chancellor of Strauss on
future behavior at the polls; preferred sources of political
information; assessment of the most effective advertisers for election
campaign measures.

Demography: age; sex; religious denomination; school education;
occupational position; employment; household size; household
composition.

Interviewer rating: degree of urbanization; district code.

Also encoded was: type of city.