Federal Parliament Election 1965 (Initial Investigation, September 1965)

Perception of parties, politicians and political topics a few days
before the Federal Parliament election 1965.

Topics: sympathy scale for SPD, CDU/CSU, FDP and for the politicians
Adenauer, Erler, Erhard, Strauss, Brandt, Mende and Schroeder;
preferred federal chancellor; most recent change in party sympathy;
issue competence of the parties as well as of the politicians Erhard
and Brandt; intent to participate in the election; certainty and time
of personal voting decision; behavior at the polls in the Federal
Parliament election 1961 and voting intent for the Federal Parliament
election 1965; party identification; reasons for election
participation; preferred composition of the Federal Government; desired
relation of domestic and foreign policy; desired influence of various
associations; judgement on subsidies for agriculture; most important
sources of political information; media usage; frequency of political
conversations; preferred television station; interest in news
broadcasts on television and political television broadcasts;
development of personal economic situation; membership in a trade union
and ties to the trade union.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious
denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational training;
occupation; employment; composition of household; head of household;
political discussion; self-assessment of social class; state;
possession of durable economic goods.

Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate; number of
contact attempts; social class of respondent.

Also encoded was: identification of interviewer.