On the Political Situation in Schleswig-Holstein in June 1987

Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; 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 elections; sympathy scale for the parties at state
and federal level; satisfaction with the state government and
opposition (scale); sympathy scale for state and federal politicians;
attitude to taking seats in state parliament by the FDP and the Greens;
preferred government coalition; attitude to an absolute majority for
one of the major parties; judgement on the reliability of the FDP as
coalition partner for the CDU; assumed position of the FDP in a
coalition; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; comparison of the
general economic situation in Schleswig-Holstein with that in the rest
of the Federal Republic; ability of the state or Federal Government
regarding improvement in the economic situation in Schleswig-Holstein;
most important problems of the state; 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 or 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.

The size of city was also encoded.