Political Attitudes and Social Moral Orientations in the Federal Republic 1985

Attitude to political questions.

Topics: political interest; party preference (Sunday question, ballot
procedure and rank order procedure); behavior at the polls in the last
Federal Parliament election; sympathy scale for the parties and top
politicians; satisfaction with the achievements of the Federal
Government altogether and the individual coalition partners as well as
the opposition; evaluation of the coalition change of the FDP as well
as their change of political goals; opinion on the position of the FDP
in the current government coalition; most important political goals;
issue ability of the parties; assessment of the agreement of the
government coalition partners in solving political goals; attitude to
abortion, the influence of trade unions, reduction of government social
services, SDI and government programs to combat unemployment; assumed
attitude of the parties to these political topics; self-classification
on a left-right continuum; unlimited satisfaction with a party;
attitude to selected political and social demands (scale).

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance; school education; occupational
position; employment; size of household; composition of household;
respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household;
party inclination; party identification; social origins; union
membership.

Interviewer rating: city reference number; place of work; date of
interview.