European Election 2019

Evaluation of parties and politicians. Attitude towards political issues. Attitude towards the European Union and European elections.

Topics: Most important political issues in the EU; intention to vote in the European elections; intended type of election (polling station or postal vote); party preference; security of one´s own election decision; interest in the European elections; importance of federal politics for one´s own election decision at the European level; voting behavior in the last European elections; sympathy scale for selected parties in Germany; satisfaction with the performance of the federal government from CDU/CSU and SPD (scale); Split A: knowledge of the top candidate or of the top candidate of the CDU/CSU and SPD in the European elections (end of Split A); sympathy scale for selected top politicians (Katarina Barley, Robert Habeck, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Angela Merkel, Jörg Meuthen, Andrea Nahles and Manfred Weber); party that is best or second best and third; Split B: personal significance of decisions at selected decision-making levels (local council or City Council, State Parliament, Bundestag, European Parliament, end of Split B); political interest in general and in relation to European policy; assessment of one´s own economic situation, the economic situation in Germany in general as well as in comparison to the Western European neighbors; Split A: most competent party for solving the economic problems in Germany and with regard to social justice (end of Split A); party most likely to represent a policy according to personal ideas in the areas of climate protection, refugees and asylum and with regard to Europe; advantageousness of EU membership for the German population; satisfaction with European policy; Split A: Evaluation of the commitment of the Federal Government with regard to a strong Europe; agreement with statements about politics in Germany (with the CDU, traditional conservative positions have played too great a role in recent months, with the SPD, left-wing positions have played too great a role in recent months, the Greens stand for a modern, middle-class policy at the end of Split A) Party in Germany that is most likely to make modern, bourgeois politics (Split B); role of Angela Merkel and CDU chairperson Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer for the CDU´s performance in the European elections and Andrea Nahles for the performance of the SPD in the European elections (helpful, harmful, not very important); preference for Manfred Weber, the candidate of the European Christian Democrats, or Frans Timmermans, the candidate of the European Social Democrats as Commission President of the EU (Split B); EU member states should unite more closely vs. get more autonomy; too much influence of the European Union on decisions in Germany; Split B: EU should take more responsibility for the solution of international conflicts; the respective government of a country vs. the EU as a whole should take care of refugee policy/climate protection/social policy (end of Split B); approval of various statements on Europe (Split A: voting is particularly important this time, so that right-wing populist forces and parties in the EU parliament do not become so strong, without the European Union we Europeans would have nothing more to say in today´s world, union to the European Union as a reason for a long period of peace in Europe, the authorities and institutions of the European Union are too detached and do not care about the interests of the citizens (end of Split A), Split B: voting are going to be especially important this time, so that anti-European forces and parties in the EU parliament do not become so strong, especially because of the EU we are doing so well economically in Germany, the right-wing populists in Europe are the only ones who care about the real interests of the citizens (end of Split B); importance of the European Union, so that Germany can assert itself internationally economically (Split A); Split B: Brexit: Opinion on Britain´s withdrawal from the EU; expected impairment of political work in the EU by British MPs in the EU Parliament until final withdrawal (end of Split B); expected good results of Euro-critical, populist and right-wing parties in the European elections as a problem for the future of the European Union; opinion on Angela Merkel remaining in the office of Chancellor until the next federal elections (Split A); federal government of CDU/CSU and SPD will remain in place until the next federal elections in autumn 2021 vs. will not remain until then (Split B); opinion on the AfD: general motivation (only AfD voters: and personal motivation) for voting in favor of the AfD in the European elections (to support the political demands of the AfD vs. to teach the other parties a lesson).

Demography: sex; age (classified); education: school leaving certificate or desired school leaving certificate; completed university studies; completed apprenticeship; employment status; own job security; occupational status and characteristics of current or previous activity; household size; number of persons in household aged 18 and over; union member in household; denomination; frequency of going to church; party affiliation; party identification.

Additionally coded: questionnaire number; federal state in which the respondent is entitled to vote; previous affiliation of the district of residence to West or East Berlin; size of the city; sample (landline, mobile phone); weighting factors.