Federal Parliament Election 1972 (Panel: 1st Wave, April - May 1971)

Judgement on parties and politicians. Political participation and
political attitudes.

Topics: rejected and preferred federal chancellor; sympathy scale for
Barzel, Brandt, Scheel, Strauss and the parties SPD, CDU/CSU, FDP, NPD
as well as the DKP; party preference (rank order procedure and ballot
procedure); party identification; party inclination of family and
friends and of one´s own opinion leaders; satisfaction with the
government and opposition (scale); most important tasks of the
opposition; judgement on the effectiveness of various types of
political participation on a scale; attitude to voting and to democracy
(scales); assessment of the importance of controversies on domestic and
foreign policy, economic policy and education policy; most important
tasks of the Federal Republic; behavior at the polls in the last
Federal Parliament election; membership in a trade union, a farming
organization or party; religiousness, judgement on the economic
development and one´s own economic situation; assessment of personal
threat.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious
denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational training;
occupation; employment; income; household income; size of household;
composition of household; head of household; self-assessment of social
class; city size; state; refugee status; membership.

Interviewer rating: interest of respondent in survey topic; social
class of respondent; length of interview; date of interview.