State Election in Baden-Wuerttemberg 1968 (Preliminary Investigation, September 1967)

Political attitudes of the voters in Baden-Wuerttemberg on political
questions at federal and state level.

Topics: 1. General political views: judgement on the general economic
situation and the economic future; desired economic policy measures to
boost the economy; personal willingness to make sacrifices to overcome
the recession; sacrifice of income; political knowledge and
self-assessment of political extent to which informed; satisfaction
with democracy; assumed reputation of the FRG abroad; judgement on
equal opportunities in the FRG; attitude to the grand coalition and
judgement on the FDP in opposition; party preference; party
identification; sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU, FDP and the NPD as
well as for various federal politicians; parties one cannot vote for;
attitude to the NPD; preferred federal chancellor; behavior at the
polls in the Federal Parliament election 1965 and reason for a possible
change in party voted for; knowledge of the member of Parliament
elected in the constituency; attitude to federalism; assignment of
issue competence to federal government, state or municipality regarding
various political questions.

2. State politics: difference between Baden-Wuerttemberg and the
Federal Republic; satisfaction with the state government; evaluation of
various measures of the state government and recommendations for
further government measures; attitudes to the school laws, the
community school and the religious denomination school; judgement on
state political institutions and offices; attitude to inflation of
offices and administration reform as well as to consolidating smaller
municipalities; most well-known state politicians and their party
affiliation; sympathy scale for Filbinger, Angstmann, Hahn and Krause;
knowledge about the state parliament delegates elected in the
constituency; personal election participation in earlier elections and
voting intent in the coming election; points of view in voting
decision; certainty of one´s voting decision; preferred coalition after
the state parliament election; media usage and sources of political
information.

3. Miscellaneous: membership in clubs and organizations as well as
their assumed party political orientation; membership in a trade union;
work satisfaction; company size and change of occupation; means of
transport used to work; possession of land; local residency; possession
of durable consumer goods.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; religious
denomination; religiousness; vocational training; occupation;
professional position; employment; professional career; type of
company; income; household income; size of household; composition of
household; head of household; housing situation; social origins;
refugee status; possession of assets.

Interviewer rating: city size.