Federal Survey 1978 (2nd Wave, May 1978)

Judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; judgement on economic situation in the
Federal Republic; party preference (ballot procedure); behavior at the
polls in the last Federal Parliament election; trust in selected
institutions such as chancellor, government, Federal Parliament,
judiciary, police etc.; sympathy scale and assessment of political
capability of the parties as well as of the most important federal
politicians; assessment of reliability of political sources of
information; behavior at the polls given a nation-wide separation of
CDU and CSU; judgement on economic situation. The following questions
were also posed in Lower Saxony: judgement on the economic situation of
Lower Saxony; most important political tasks in the state and issue
ability of parties and politicians; knowledge about the Green Lists and
the political matter of concern of this party; attitude to the Greens
gaining seats in the Lower Saxony state parliament; classification of
state parties and politicians on a left-right continuum;
self-classification on a left-right continuum; assessment of the
position of the Lower Saxony CDU in comparison to the federal CDU;
preference for prime minister; party preference for the next state
parliament election; judgement on the job of the CDU/FDP coalition up
to now in Lower Saxony as well as attitude to a possible model
character of this coalition at federal level.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of
children (classified); religious denomination; frequency of church
attendance; school education; occupational position; employment;
income; household income; size of household; composition of household;
respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household;
party inclination; party identification; self-assessment of social
class; city size; state; union membership; party inclination; party
identification; number of persons in household with their own income.

Interviewer rating: length of interview.

Also encoded was: administrative district; political municipality size
class; degree of urbanization.