Forsa Bus 1997

The Forsa Bus is conducted by the Forsa polling institute. Based on representative samples, the program surveys about 500 people eligible to vote each day by telephone and asks about individual attitudes on various political and social issues. The Forsa Bus is currently available from 1991 onwards. The datasets include parts from omnibus surveys, while the focus of the collection is the survey of political preferences, both for candidates and parties, as well as voting behaviour in past elections.<br>Most important political topics; expected economic situation
and expected development of personal living conditions; greatest
problems in Germany; preference for federal chancellor; most able party
in the Federal Republic; behavior at the polls in the last Federal
Parliament election and state parliament election; party preference on
state and federal level (Sunday question); party inclination and party
identification; satisfaction with democracy; satisfaction with the work
of the Federal Government and of the opposition; self-assessment on a
left-right continuum; sympathy scale for the CDU, CSU, SPD, PDS,
Alliance 90/the Greens, FDP, Republicans; media usage (newspaper and TV
news). Demography: sex; year of birth; employment; professional
position; vocational training; school education; size of household;
members of household under 14 years (or under 18 as of February) and
their year of birth; religious affiliation; frequency of church
attendance; union membership; party membership; citizenship; monthly
net income. Also encoded was: state; city size; date of interview;
weekday of interview.