On the Political Situation in Hesse in February 1987

Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; intent to participate in the election;
party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure) at state
and federal level; certainty of one´s voting decision; behavior at the
polls in the last state parliament and Federal Parliament election;
satisfaction scale for the state government as well as the individual
government and opposition parties; sympathy scale for state and federal
politicians; preferred government coalition and preference for prime
minister; attitude to an absolute majority for one of the major
parties; issue relevance; issue competence; possible state governments;
assumed election winner; attitude to dismissal of the Environment
Minister, Fisher, and termination of the red-green coalition;
responsible party or persons responsible for the failure of this
government coalition; attitude to a shut-down of the Hanau Betriebe
fuer nukleare Brennelemente {nuclear fuel element companies};
assessment of the possibility of an accident in the Hanau
Brennelemente-Fabrik; self-assessment of personal social mobility.

Demography: year of birth and month of birth; sex; marital status;
religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school
education; occupational position; employment; assessment of personal
occupational position in comparison to that of father; number of
persons 18 years old and older in household; respondent is head of
household; characteristics of head of household; party inclination;
party identification; union memberships in household; characterization
of residential surroundings.

Also encoded was; administrative district and city size.