Politics in Rhineland-Palatinate (November 1978)

Attitude of the population to current political topics. Judgement on
parties and politicians at state and federal level.

Topics: judgement on the economic situation as well as the economic
development of the FRG and the state Rhineland-Palatinate; expected
development of personal standard of living; political interest and
extent to which informed politically; most important task of the FRG as
well as of the state Rhineland-Palatinate; preferred prime minister;
degree of familiarity of selected state politicians; advantages and
disadvantages of Bernhard Vogel and Klaus v. Dohnany; satisfaction with
government and opposition in Rhineland-Palatinate; classification of
the relevance of political issues; issue ability of the parties;
assumed election result of the next state parliament election;
certainty of one´s voting decision; detailed determination of party
preference by means of different question formulations (among others
ballot procedure and Sunday question); self-assessment on a left-right
continuum as well as classification of the parties and prime minister
candidates on a 20-level left-right continuum; agreement with
politicians and parties; personal opinion leadership or opinion
allegiance; assumed party preference of opinion leader; sympathy scale
and scale of the ability of selected state politicians and the parties;
semantic differential for prime minister candidates; party preference
of spouse; party preference at federal level; satisfaction with the
Federal Government and opposition in Federal Parliament; preferred
federal chancellor; judgement on the populism of the parties; contact
with authorities; image of authorities and offices (semantic
differentials); attitude to the ban on employment of radicals as
teachers and civil servants; satisfaction with the political system in
the Federal Republic; preferred sources of information on political
questions; frequency of reading the political part of daily newspapers;
preferred daily newspaper and its political orientation; frequency of
use of television news; preference for a certain state.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance; religiousness; school education;
occupational position; employment; number of recipients of income;
household income; household size; household composition; respondent is
head of household; characteristics of head of household;
self-assessment of social class; personal membership in a union or
membership of other members of household.

Interviewer rating: degree of urbanization; length of interview;
district code.

Also encoded was: city size; municipality code; length of interview.