State Election in Baden-Wuerttemberg 2016

Assessment of parties and politicians to the state election. Political issues.

Topics: main political problems in Baden-Wuerttemberg; participation in the state election in Baden-Wuerttemberg; preference for postal voting; party preference; certainty of own vote decision; importance of federal policy for own election decision in the state election in Baden-Wuerttemberg; interest in the state election; voting behavior during the last regional election; coalition preference; attitude towards different coalition constellations: government by the Greens and SPD, by CDU and SPD, by CDU and the Greens under the leadership of the CDU, by the Greens and CDU under the leadership of the Greens, by CDU, SPD and FDP as well as by the Greens, SPD and FDP; sympathy scale for different parties at the federal and state level (CDU, the Greens, SPD, FDP, Die Linke, AfD); satisfaction scale on the achievements of the state government of the Greens and SPD; satisfaction scale on the achievements of CDU and FDP in the opposition in the state parliament as well as on the achievements of the federal government from CDU / CSU and SPD; knowledge of the top candidates of the Greens, of CDU and of SPD for the office of Prime Minister; sympathy scale for selected top politicians at state level and for Angela Merkel; party sympathy; interest in politics; preference for Winfried Kretschmann or Guido Wolf as Prime Minister; Split A: comparison of the credibility, the sympathy and the expertise of Winfried Kretschmann and Guido Wolf; assessment of the current economic situation in Baden-Württemberg as well as the own economic situation; expected economic situation in one year; Split B: the most competent party to solve economic problems in the country, and in school and education policy, transport policy and energy policy; the future of the country and the most competent party to solve the future problems of Baden-Wuerttemberg; assessment of the work of Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann; party which is most likely to express personal opinion on refugees and asylum; importance of the subject of refugees for the own election decision in the state elections; Baden-Wuerttemberg can handle a large number of refugees; assessment of the work of Chancellor Angela Merkel in refugee policy; moving away of CDU candidate Guido Wolf from the refugee policy of Angela Merkel and approval to this moving away; consent to the AfD as the only party to name the most important problems; other policy of the Greens in the country than in the federal government; preferred treatment of the other parties with the AfD (normal party vs. no cooperation); election of the party AfD (generally and personal) on the basis of its political demands or to give the other parties a wipe; expected election winner in Baden-Wuerttemberg; state policy or top candidate Winfried Kretschmann as the reason for the good performance of the Greens in the state elections; state policy or top candidate Nils Schmid as reason for the bad performance of the SPD in the state election; improving the chances of the CDU with another top candidate than Guido Wolf.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; living together with a partner; school-leaving qualification or targeted school-leaving qualification; university degree; completed vocational training; employment; safety of employment; occupational position; leading position; employment in the public sector; household size; number of persons aged 18 and over; union member in the household; denomination; church attendance; party inclination; party identification; number of telephone numbers in the household; city size.

Additionally coded was: ID; weighting factor.