State Election in Schleswig-Holstein 1987

Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; intent to participate in the election;
party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure) in the
state parliament and Federal Parliament elections; behavior at the
polls in the last state parliament and Federal Parliament elections;
certainty of one´s voting decision; personal change in party voted for;
satisfaction with the state government and opposition (scale); sympathy
scale for the parties at the state and federal level as well as for the
top politicians of the state; preference for prime minister; attitude
to an absolute majority for one of the major parties; preferred
government coalition; judgement on the reliability of the FDP as
coalition partner for the CDU; issue relevance; issue competence of
possible state governments; comparison of the economic situation in
Schleswig-Holstein with that in the rest of the Federal Republic;
assumed probability of taking seats in state parliament by the FDP, the
Greens as well as the Independent Voter Community; attitude to the
candidacy of the Independent Voter Community and assumed damage for
another party from this candidacy; significance of the election result
for the future of the state; assumed winner in the next state
parliament election.

Demography: month and year of birth; sex; marital status; religious
denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education;
occupational position; employment; number of persons in household 18
years old and older; relationship of respondent to head of household;
characteristics of head of household; party inclination and party
identification; characterization of residential surroundings according
to occupational groups; union membership.

Also encoded was: district code; state.