Political Attitudes (March 1969)

Political participation, behavior at the polls and judgement on the
parties.

Topics: Political interest and political extent to which informed;
intent to participate in the election regarding the Federal Parliament
election as well as the state parliament election and municipal
election; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election
1965; party preference and party ties; sympathy scale for the CDU/CSU,
SPD, FDP, NPD, DKP and various politicians; image of the parties; party
one cannot vote for; assumed result of the Federal Parliament election
1969 and government composition resulting from it; rank order of party
sympathies; party preference at introduction of a majority vote system;
sympathy changes of the parties in the last few months; preferred
federal chancellor; party preference and behavior at the polls
regarding the next state parliament election; judgement on the grand
coalition; party sympathies of family and friends; assessment of the
economic situation in comparison over time; service in the Federal
German Armed Forces; city size; attitude to television broadcasts in
the morning hours; most important problems of the FRG.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
religiousness; school education; occupation; employment; household
income; size of household; composition of household; head of household;
social origins; refugee status; membership.

Also encoded was: weekday of interview.