Mass-Media and Voters (Pre-Election Study 1994)

Media usage and voting decision. Topics: Most interesting topics in the
media; prediction of general economic development and personal living
conditions; most important political problems; currently most able
party; preference for chancellor; behavior at the polls in the last
Federal Parliament election 1990 and party preference (Sunday question,
first vote, second vote); reasons for vote splitting; preference for
absentee ballot; most sympathetic party; coalition preference; habitual
election inclination; assessment of the problem-solving ability of the
established parties; media usage with daily newspapers and television;
self-assessment of interest in politics; postmaterialism;
self-assessment on a left-right continuum; good and bad sides of the
SPD, the CSU and the FDP, the Greens and the PDS; party membership;
union membership; religiousness. Also encoded were: day of interview;
interview week; municipality code; city size.