Forsa-Bus 2022

The Forsa Bus is conducted by the forsa survey institute. As part of the representative survey, around 500 eligible voters are interviewed by telephone every day in order to ascertain the population´s current attitudes to various political and social issues. The years from 1991 onwards are available from GESIS as an annual cumulation. The data sets include parts from multi-topic surveys, whereby one focus of the collection is the survey of political preference, both for candidates and for parties, as well as voting behavior in past elections.<br>Chancellor preference for Markus Söder or for Olaf Scholz, for Friedrich Merz or for Olaf Scholz, for Olaf Scholz, Annalena Baerbock or Friedrich Merz, for Olaf Scholz, Robert Habeck or Friedrich Merz; economic expectations for Germany; most competent party to solve the problems in the Federal Republic; voting behaviour in the last federal election and state election; party preference at federal and state level (Sunday question).

Demography: sex; age (year of birth); marital status; living with a partner; employment; group membership if not employed; education; occupational status and characteristics; household size; number of children in household under the age of 18; net household income; religious denomination; trade union member in household.

Additionally coded were: Federal state; administrative district (anonymized); rural district (anonymized); city size (size category of political municipality); survey area west/east; interview date (year, month, day); day of the week of the interview; survey period (week); sample: sample frame (landline, mobile); weighting factors.