Forsa Bus 1996

The Forsa Bus is conducted by the Forsa polling institute. Based on representative samples, the program surveys about 500 people eligible to vote each day by telephone and asks about individual attitudes on various political and social issues. The Forsa Bus is currently available from 1991 onwards. The datasets include parts from omnibus surveys, while the focus of the collection is the survey of political preferences, both for candidates and parties, as well as voting behaviour in past elections.<br>Most important political topics; expected economic situation
and expected development of personal living conditions; greatest
problems in Germany; preference for federal chancellor; most able party
in the Federal Republic; behavior at the polls in the last Federal
Parliament election and

state parliament election; party preference on state and federal level
(Sunday question). Demography: sex; year of birth; marital status;
living together with a partner; employment; professional position;
vocational training; school education; size of household; members of
household under 14 years and their year of birth; religious
affiliation; frequency of church attendance; union membership; party
membership; citizenship; monthly net income. Also encoded was: state;
city size; date of interview; weekday of interview.