Comparative Election Study 1990 (Spouses, 1st Wave)

Recording the communication processes between the political system and
the voter. Political attitudes; judgement on parties and politicians.
Topics: Judgement on the current economic situation in the Federal
Republic and expectation for the next year; interest in politics; most
important political problems in Germany (rank order procedure);
postmaterialism; intent to participate in the election; party
preference (first vote and second vote, ballot procedure); expected
winner of the coming Federal Parliament election; sympathy scale for
Federal Chancellor Kohl and candidate for chancellor Lafontaine;
preference for federal chancellor; self-classification on a left-right
continuum; preference for governmental or market economy solution of
the economic problems in the new states; assumed position of the
individual parties on this question; attitude to restriction of the
right to asylum, the question of abortion and the question of nuclear
energy as well as assumed position of the parties on these questions;
behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election or in the
election to the Berlin House of Representatives; religiousness; year of
birth; month of birth; occupational position; frequency of political
discussions with spouse and frequency of diverging opinions.