Federal Parliament Election 1965 (Preliminary Investigation, July - September 1964)

Judgement on the parties and their policies.

Topics: attitude to the two or multiple party system; sympathy scale
for SPD, CDU/CSU, FDP and politicians; judgement on domestic, foreign,
and home policy, issue-competence of the parties; political interest;
voting behavior in the Federal Parliament elections of 1957 and 1961;
voting intent and estimation of the election results in 1965; attitude
to the FDP as third force in the Federal Parliament, judgement on the
FDP regarding its home policy; most important problems of the FRG;
judgement on the present government coalition and Federal Chancellor
Erhard; reading of newspapers and magazines as well as articles
preferred; party membership; satisfaction with the economic situation
and personal standard of living; religiousness.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious
denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation;
income; head of household; state; refugee status.

Interviewer rating: social class of respondent; type of city; city
size.