Opinion Poll Voting Intentions Federal Election 2017

Opionion poll voting intentions and party preference for the federal election in 2017

The following topics are included in the overall data set. Some of them were asked at every time of the survey, but some were only asked at one or more points of the survey.

Topics: frequency of use of daily newspapers, Internet, magazines, radio and television; political interest; left-right self-assessment; long-term party affiliation; election behavior in the 2013 federal election; party preference (Sunday question); electoral intent of other parties; general firmness of the election decision and party preference; probability of voter participation; willingness to vote for selected parties; Chancellor´s preference for Angela Merkel or Martin Schulz in direct elections.

Demography: sex; age (year and month of birth); education; vocational education; federal state; household income; personal income; household size; marital status; children under 18; migration background; employment status; working status; occupation group; religion.

Additionally coded was: West/East; weight.