State Election in Hamburg 1987

Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; intent to participate in the election;
party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure) in the
metropolitan council and Federal Parliament elections; behavior at the
polls in the last metropolitan council and Federal Parliament
elections; certainty of one´s voting decision; personal change in party
voted for; sympathy scale for the political parties and top politicians
in the state; assumed probability as well as attitude to taking seats
in the metropolitan council by the FDP and the Greens; attitude to the
women´s list of the Greens; preferred first mayor; attitude to an
absolute majority for one of the major parties; preferred government
coalition; perceived support of the two top candidates by their
parties; assumed and preferred coalition behavior of the FDP; issue
relevance; issue competence of possible senates; comparison of the
economic situation of Hamburg with that in the rest of the Federal
Republic; attitude to nuclear power plants; assumed winner in the next
metropolitan council election.

Demography: month and year of birth; sex; marital status; religious
denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education;
occupational position; employment; number of persons in household 18
years or older; relationship of respondent to head of household;
characteristics of head of household; party inclination and party
identification; characterization of residential surroundings according
to occupational groups; union membership.

Also encoded was: district code; state.