Federal Parliament Election 1976 (Panel: 3rd Wave, August 1976)

Attitude to political and economic questions. Judgement on parties and
politicians in view of the next Federal Parliament election. The
significance of candidates for chancellor.

Topics: most important political events of the past; ability of the
parties to solve problems; party preference (ballot procedure); most
important political task in the state and party with the greatest
ability to solve this at state level; behavior at the polls in the last
Federal Parliament election (first vote and second vote); satisfaction
with government and opposition; judgement on the economic situation in
the FRG as well as its development; expected price development and
income development; current and earlier savings habits; assessment of
the development of the standard of living; personal impact of
unemployment; assessment of the general economic situation as crisis
and judgement on its significance; personal impact of the economic
crisis; parties as representation of interests of selected social
groups; agreement of one´s own political opinion with selected
politicians and assessment of the agreement of these politicians with
their parties (scale); interest in politics; party inclination;
comparison of the two candidates for chancellor Kohl and Schmidt
regarding their representation of interests for selected social groups;
preference for federal chancellor; assessment of the victory chances of
the two candidates for chancellor; image of the candidates for
chancellor (semantic differentials); coalition preference;
self-assessment of social class; candidates for chancellor or party as
most important criterion for one´s own voting decision; trust in
selected government and democratic institutions as well as information
on changes in trust in these institutions; satisfaction with the
political situation in the country; ability of the candidates for
chancellor; party with the better government team; most important
political tasks; solution recommendations for the most important tasks;
most important election campaign news; significance of the election
campaign.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; position in household;
employment; occupational satisfaction; judgement on occupational
prospects; car possession; possession of a telephone; possession of
durable economic goods; possession of property, house, life insurance
and financial investments; size of household; household income; number
of income recipients; social mobility.

Interviewer rating: type of residential building; interest of the
respondent in interview; assessment of the degree of difficulty of the
interview for the respondent; length of interview.