Social Structures and Political Attitudes in Hamburg

Judgement on parties and politicians.

Topics: political interest; intent to participate in the election for
metropolitian council and Federal Parliament election; party preference
in the metropolitian council or Federal Parliament election (Sunday
question and rank order procedure); certainty of one´s voting decision
and behavior at the polls in the last metropolitian council and Federal
Parliament election; sympathy scale for the parties in Hamburg and the
Federal Republic as well as leading politicians; satisfaction with
government and opposition; assumed probability and attitude to taking
seats in metropolitian council by FDP or GAL; attitude to an absolute
majority for one party; preferred first mayor and government coalition;
preferred conduct of the SPD in view of possible formation of
government with GAL or FDP; self-classification on a left-right
continuum; attitude to a statement of willingness to form a coalition
before or after the election; preferred coalition partner for the FDP;
behavior at the polls given a statement of willingness to form a
coalition of the FDP in favor of the CDU or SPD; knowledge about the
decision of the Hamburg FDP not to make a statement of willingness to
form a coalition before the election; most important problems of
Hamburg; satisfaction with the Bonn government coalition; attitude to
nuclear power plants; union membership; social mobility.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance; school education; occupational
position; employment; respondent is head of household; characteristics
of head of household; party inclination; party identification; union
membership; number of persons in household 18 years old and older; size
of household; degree of relationship of respondent to head of
household; characterization of residential surroundings according to
occupational groups; comparison of personal occupational position and
that of one´s own father; comparison of occupational position of
husband and that of one´s own father.

Interviewer rating: date of interview; place of interview.

Also encoded was: sample point.