State Election in Lower Saxony 1986

Judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; intent to participate in the state or
Federal Parliament election or absentee ballot; personal change in
party voted for; party preference in the state and Federal Parliament
election (Sunday question and rank order procedure); behavior at the
polls in the last state and Federal Parliament election; certainty of
one´s voting decision; satisfaction scale for the state government and
opposition parties; satisfaction with the top candidates of one´s
preferred party; sympathy scale for the top candidates at state and
federal level; assumed probability as well as attitude to the FDP and
the Greens taking seats in state parliament; attitude to an absolute
majority for one party; preferred government coalition and prime
minister; issue relevance and issue ability of the parties; comparison
of the economic situation of Lower Saxony with that in the rest of the
Federal Republic; assumed health effects of the nuclear power plant
accident in Chernobyl; judgement on the information policies of the
authorities regarding this accident; attitude to nuclear power plants;
assumed conduct of a state government led by CDU or SPD regarding the
use of nuclear power; preferred conduct of SPD or Greens in view of a
government coalition; judgement on the election campaign activities of
party supporters; assumed election winner in the next state parliament
election.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance; school education; occupational
position; employment; respondent is head of household; size of
household; characteristics of head of household; party inclination;
party identification; union membership; number of persons in household
18 years old and older; comparison of personal occupational position or
that of husband with that of one´s own father; characterization of
residential surroundings according to occupational groups.

Interviewer rating: city code; place of interview; date of interview.