State Parliament Election 2011 in Baden-Wuerttemberg (Representative Pre-Election Survey)

Assessment of parties and politicians for the state election. Political issues.

Topics: Most important problems in the state; intention to vote and party preference in the next state election in Baden-Württemberg (Sunday question); certainty of voting; second preference party; coalition preference; voting behaviour in the last state election in 2006 and the last federal election in 2009; sympathy scalometer for the CDU, SPD, FDP, Bündnis90/Die Grünen and the Linke at federal level as well as at state level; satisfaction scalometer for the performance of the state government of CDU and FDP as well as the performance of the federal government of CDU/CSU and FDP; politics in Baden-Württemberg or federal politics decisive for one´s own election decision; prime minister preference; sympathy scalometer for the top candidates Stefan Mappus, Nils Schmid and Winfried Kretschmann; assessment of the expertise of the aforementioned candidates; assessment of the general economic situation in Baden-Württemberg and of their own economic situation; assessment of the future economic situation in Baden-Württemberg (economic expectations); most competent party in the fields of economy, finance, education and foreigners´ policy; assessment of prime minister Stefan Mappus´ performance in office; mood to change; attitude towards the Stuttgart 21 project; Stuttgart region; assessment of Heiner Geißler´s mediation decision on Stuttgart 21; Importance of Stuttgart 21 for personal voting decisions; support for a referendum on Stuttgart 21; referendum on Stuttgart 21 by the population in Stuttgart, in Baden-Württemberg or in Germany as a whole; attitude towards referendums in general; referendums lead to better political results than parliamentary referendums; party affiliation and strength of party identification; rejection or approval of compulsory voting. approval of compulsory voting.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; living with a partner; highest level of education; employment; occupation or former occupation; assessment of job security; job security; household size; number of eligible voters in household; trade union membership of respondent or other household members; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance (frequency of mosque attendance for Muslims); city size.

Additionally coded were: Birthday key; weighting factor; administrative district; interview date and start of interview; number of calls.