Issue Dimensions and Voting Decision (January 1969)

Attitude to political controversies and voting intent.

Topics: voting behavior in the Federal Parliament election 1965; party
preference (Sunday question) and sympathy scale for CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP
and NPD; preferred chancellor candidate; issue competence of the
parties on questions of education policy, economic policy, social
policy, policy to the East and foreign policy; attitude to
co-determination; evaluation of current and future economic situation;
attitude to recognition of the GDR, to the grand coalition and to
reduction in social expenditures; party with the presumably greatest
number of politicians without religious denomination; perceived
influence of organizations and pressure groups on German politics;
membership in clubs and organizations; social class (Scheuch index).

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious
denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation;
employment; income; household income; size of household; composition of
household; head of household; state; possession of durable economic
goods.

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