State Election in Bavaria 1986

Judgement on parties and politicians at federal and state level.

Topics: political interest; intent to participate in the election or
absentee ballot in the state or Federal Parliament election; party
preference in state und Federal Parliament election (Sunday question
and rank order procedure); certainty of one´s voting decision and
behavior at the polls in the last state and Federal Parliament
election; sympathy scale for the parties in Bavaria as well as the top
candidates at state and federal level; satisfaction with government and
opposition; assumed probability and attitude to taking seats in state
parliament by FDP or Greens; preference for prime minister; issue
relevance and issue competence of the parties; judgement on the
economic situation of Bavaria in comparison to the rest of the Federal
Republic; judgement on the election campaign activities of party
supporters; assumed winner of the state parliament election;
satisfaction with the government coalition in Bonn; attitude to
construction of a reprocessing plant for nuclear fuel in Wackersdorf;
attitude to nuclear power plants; assumed probability of a nuclear
accident in a German nuclear power plant;

Demography: sex; year of birth; month of birth; marital status;
religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school
education; occupational position; employment; respondent is head of
household; characteristics of head of household; party inclination;
party identification; union membership; number of persons in household
18 years old and older; degree of relationship of respondent to head of
household; characterization of residential surroundings according to
occupational groups.

Interviewer rating: date of interview; place of interview.

Also encoded was: sample point.