Spring Study 1972

Political attitudes. Orientation in personal voting decision.

Topics: judgement on the economic situation of the Federal Republic
and assessment of future economic development; political interest; most
important political events in the last year; party preference (ballot
procedure and rank order procedure); good and bad sides of the parties;
most important political tasks in the Federal Republic; issue ability
of the parties and candidates for chancellor, Barzel and Brandt; party
inclination and party identification; orientation on social
surroundings in personal voting decision (scale); basic attitude to
participation in municipal, state and Federal Parliament elections;
personal change in party voted for; conduct at the last Federal
Parliament election; assumed reaction of family members, friends,
neighbors and colleagues at making personal behavior at the polls
known; party with the majority of votes at place of residence; desire
for a larger circle of friends; ties of the parties to interest groups;
conservative and basically skeptical attitude; political opinion leader
in one´s circle of friends or with persons with high standing at place
of residence as well as their party preference; judgement on selected
aspects of the retirement program (scale); subjective classification of
amount of household income; development of household income in the past
and expectations for the future; self-classification of social class;
estimate of length of interview in minutes; extent to which the
interview was boring.

Demography: date of birth; sex; marital status; religious
denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education;
occupational position; current and earlier employment; monthly net
income of head of household; sources of income; size of household;
position of respondent in household; characteristics of head of
household.

Interviewer rating: interest of respondent in survey; actual length of
interview; date of interview.

Also encoded was: date of birth of interviewer; sex of interviewer;
municipality code.