State Election in Hesse 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 state
and Federal Parliament elections; behavior at the polls in the last
state and Federal Parliament elections; certainty of one´s voting
decision; satisfaction with the state government as well as the
individual government or opposition parties (scale); sympathy scale for
selected state politicians; preference for prime minister; attitude to
an absolute majority for one of the major parties; preferred government
coalition; issue relevance and issue competence of possible state
governments; comparison of the economic situation in Hesse with that in
the rest of the Federal Republic and expected influence of the current
state government on this situation; attitude to a closure of the Hanau
Betriebe fuer nukleare Brennelemente {nuclear fuel element companies};
assessment of the possibility of an accident in the Hanau
Brennelemente-Fabrik; attitude to nuclear power plants and judgement on
the possibility of a nuclear accident in a German nuclear power plant;
assumed probability as well as attitude to taking seats in state
parliament by the FDP and the Greens; assumed winner in the next state
parliament election; judgement on the efforts of the top candidates of
the CDU and SPD for election success up to now; dialect.

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 old 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.