State Election in Saxony-Anhalt 1998

Judgement on parties and politicians on the state parliament election.
Political questions. Topics: Most important political problems in
Saxony-Anhalt; intent to participate in the state election; preference
for absentee ballot; party preference (first vote and second vote);
point in time and certainty of one´s voting decision; importance of
federal politics for one´s own voting decision at state level; behavior
at the polls in the last state parliament election; attitude to a
one-party government of the SPD in Saxony-Anhalt and to minority
government with toleration of the PDS; coalition preference; sympathy
scale for selected parties at federal and state level; satisfaction
with the achievements of the state government as well as the partners
in the government, the CDU opposition and the PDS as well as the
Federal Government (scale); knowledge about the top candidates of the
CDU and the SPD for the office of prime minister; sympathy scale for
selected top politicians; interest in politics; satisfaction with the
decision for the introduction of political order according to western
pattern; preference for Hoeppner or Bergner as prime minister;
comparison of the credibility, energy, sympathy, the winner type and
the expertise of the two top politicians; judgement on the personal
economic situation and the economic situation of the state; expected
development of the economic situation in the state and comparison of
the economic situation of the state with the rest of the Eastern
territory of the Federal Republic; party in the state most able to
improve the economic situation in the area of job creation, environment
and the fight against crime; personal fear of crime; judgement on the
PDS as SED successor party and desired treatment of the party in
parliament; expected election winner in the state parliament election;
chances of the Alliance 90/the Greens, the FDP and the DVU {deutsche
Volksunion} in the state parliament election. Demography: age
(classified); sex; marital status; living together with a partner;
religious denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational
training; occupational position; extent of employment; size of
household; composition of household; head of household; party
inclination; party identification; union membership; personal job
security; jeopardy to job in one´s circle of friends; city size.