Spring Study 1976

Political attitudes. Evaluation of parties and candidates for
chancellor.

Topics: assessment of the current economic situation of the FRG and
future economic development; assessment of personal economic
development; dependence of general economic development on the
governing party; most able party in economic questions; political
interest; most important political events in the last year as well as
the names of politicians connected with them; influence of politician
conduct on sympathy for a party; party inclination; preferred candidate
for chancellor in the next Federal Parliament election; most important
characteristics a federal chancellor should have; party preference
(ballot procedure); self-assessment as well as assessment of parties
and candidates for chancellor on a left-right continuum; most important
political tasks in the Federal Republic; issue ability of the parties
and candidates for chancellor; satisfaction with the job of the
government coalition and opposition; attitude to political unification
of Europe; assumed attitude of the French, English and West German
population to a united Europe; feeling of being a European;
identification with political groups; opinions about the treaty with
Poland; importance of good relations with the USA, the Soviet Union,
France, China and the GDR; issue significance and ability of the
parties in questions of Ostpolitik, price stability as well as
abortion; significance of the candidate for chancellor for personal
voting decision; sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU/CSU and FDP;
familiarity and use of absentee ballot; election participation in the
Federal Parliament election 1972 and behavior at the polls; semantic
differential for the candidates for chancellor, Kohl and Schmidt;
judgement on the system of social security in the Federal Republic;
security of social security in the future or dependence on economic
development; party making the greatest effort to secure social
services; most important political events in Baden-Wuerttemberg; party
preference in the state parliament election; preferred prime minister.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; religious
denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education;
occupational position; current and earlier employment; household
income; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of
household; self-assessment of social class; city size; state; union
membership; number of eligible voters in household; possession of a
telephone; number of persons in household contributing to income;
estimated party inclination of spouse.

Interviewer rating: length of interview; date of interview; interest
of respondent in interview; place of survey; number of contact attempts.