Federal Election 2013 - Post-election CATI

Political attitudes and behaviour.

Topics: Participation in the last Federal Election in 2013; vote decision (first vote, second vote); vote for another party is conceivable; alternative vote; vote decision in the 2009 Federal election; other vote decision after the results of the 2013 Federal election become known; party preference (Sunday question); political interest; decisive vote for the distribution of seats in the Bundestag (first vote or second vote); assessment of the parties CDU, CSU, SPD, FDP, Die Linke, Grüne, Piraten and AfD (Skalometer); assessment of selected top politicians (Angela Merkel, Peer Steinbrück, Rainer Brüderle, Gregor Gysi, Jürgen Trittin, Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Sahra Wagenknecht); most important problem in Germany; most suitable party to solve this problem; opinion on some general statements on politics (most people in one´s own personal environment think politically similar, always vote for the party that was voted for at home, actually always voted for the same party, many friends participated in the Federal election, interest in the Federal election campaign, outcome of the Federal election personally important, there is little interest in political parties, to follow political events is sometimes too much, no personal involvement in most of the things that politics cares about, political topics are boring, politicians who appeal to the respondent, personal agreement with the content of several parties, participation in elections as a civic duty in a democracy); main source of information about parties or the Federal election campaign; frequency of Internet use for political information; Wahl-O-Mat use during the election campaign; surprising result of the Wahl-O-Mat; help of the Wahl-O-Mat in the personal election decision; change of opinion due to the result of the Wahl-O-Mat; party tendency; strength of party tendency; party tendency in principle or at the moment; always no party tendency vs. party tendency built up gradually; party affiliation (mostly satisfied, although not everything pleases, feeling close to the party, points of view of the party help in finding one´s way in politics, staying with it after having decided for the party, party or parties to which the parents have a tendency); satisfaction with the development direction of the country; attitudes towards political issues (technical innovations, genetically modified food, collection of personal data by the state, disrespectful youth, hunting of animals, growing up of children in a same-sex marriage, husband and wife splitting, private health insurance companies, EU accession of Turkey, obedience and discipline of children, Islam belongs to Germany like Christianity, maintaining grammar school, development of renewable energies, organic food from the region, home gives a feeling of security and solidarity, Split Half: saving of state services vs. tax increases, Split Half: state support only for those who are willing to perform vs. those who do more should be much better off, Split Half: ban on factory farming vs. necessary to feed humanity); perceived age.

Demography: sex; age; school leaving certificate; employment status; occupational status; number of persons in the household aged 18 and over; denomination; frequency of church attendance; identification with the Catholic faith or with the Protestant faith; union affiliation; German citizenship from birth; born in Germany; federal state of birth; country of birth; parents born in Germany; country of birth of father and mother (migration background); ethnic German repatriate or late ethnic German repatriate status; marital status.

Additionally coded was: interview number, weighting factors; number of persons eligible to vote in the household; region (west/east); federal state; city size (BIK, political city size); sample (mobile vs. landline); number of mobile phones and landline telephone numbers.