Politbarometer - Overall Cumulation

The Politbarometer has been conducted since 1977 on an almost monthly basis by the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen on behalf of the Second German Television (ZDF). Since 1990, this database has also been available for the new German states. The survey focuses on the opinions and attitudes of the voting-age population in the Federal Republic on current political issues, parties, politicians, and voting behavior. From 1990 to 1995 and from 1999 onward, the Politbarometer surveys were conducted separately both in the newly formed eastern and in the western German states (Politbarometer East and Politbarometer West). The separate monthly surveys of a year are integrated into a cumulative data set that includes all surveys of a year and all variables of the respective year. Starting in 2003, the Politbarometer short surveys, collected with varying frequency throughout the year, are integrated into the annual cumulation.
This total cumulation includes all variables from the 1977 to 2016 annual cumulated data sets that were collected more than once.<br>Intention to vote and party preference (Sunday question); voting behaviour in the last Bundestag election; eligibility or Non-eligibility of parties; various questions about Bundestag and state elections; sympathy scale for the parties; satisfaction scale for the performance of the federal government and the opposition parties; competent parties for various policy fields; democracy satisfaction; correct politicians in leading positions; political interest; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; assessment of the economic situation in the Federal Republic and presumed further development; own economic situation and expected further development; competence of the government or the opposition to various policy fields; most important politicians; scalometers of political personalities; government coalitions; role of various parties in government coalitions; questions on the reunification of the two German states; questions on foreign policy and international relations; questions on European cooperation and the financial crisis; questions on a wide range of domestic policy issues, such as fear of crime, counter-terrorism, data protection or right-wing extremists; questions on social policy, such as pension security, health care, social security systems or birth rate in Germany; questions on economic policy, such as collective bargaining, minimum wage, working hours or tax issues; questions on education policy; questions on defence and disarmament, such as attitudes towards an increased assumption of global political responsibility by the united Germany, deployment of the Bundeswehr or arms trade; questions on environmental protection, energy policy and technical development; ethical and religious questions, such as the evaluation of different views on abortion; questions on migration and policy on foreigners, such as assessment of the proportion of foreigners, attitude to asylum law in Germany, reception and integration of refugees; satisfaction with the state of society; comparison of society with other Western European countries; perceived military threat; peace security; annual review of political events; personal annual outlook; questions on various areas of life, such as holidays, sports or television.

Demography: denomination; church attendance frequency; gender; age; marital status; cohabitation with a partner; children in the household; school education; completed vocational training; university degree; educational aspiration level; occupation; occupational group; household size; head of household; job security; party affiliation; party identification; trade union member in the household; federal state; city size.