German Election Panel Study, 1976

<p>Attitude to economic as well as political questions. Judgement on parties and politicians in view of the next Federal Parliament election. Topics: 1. judgement on political problems and on the ability to solve them: importance of political problems; issue competence of the parties; most important political events of the past and parties and politicians associated with them; trust in selected governmental and democratic institutions and information on changes in trust in these institutions. 2. political interest and evaluation of parties: personal agreement with parties and politicians; assessment of perceived agreement between selected politicians and their parties on a scale; image of the parties in the form of the social groups primarily represented by these parties; preferred CDU candidate for chancellor; party preference (ballot procedure for first vote and second vote); behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1972; party identification; assessment of the importance of elections (scale); political interest. 3. judgement on the economic situation: judgement on the economic situation of the FRG as well as its development; judgement on personal economic situation; economic expectations for the future; expected price development and personal income development; expected development of personal standard of living; amount of regular savings; installment purchases. 4. Miscellaneous: job satisfaction and occupational prospects; characterization of current social environment and housing conditions as well as characterization of them when a youth of 15 years; assessment of the significance of religious education in one's parental home; membership in a trade union and intensity of participation in union activities.</p>