Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg 1987

Political attitudes as well as judgment on parties and politicians. Topics: political interest; intent to participate in the election; party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure) in the metropolitan council and Federal Parliament elections; behavior at the polls in the last metropolitan council and Federal Parliament elections; certainty of one´s voting decision; personal change in party voted for; sympathy scale for the political parties and top politicians in the state; assumed probability as well as attitude to taking seats in the metropolitan council by the FDP and the Greens; attitude to the women´s list of the Greens; preferred first mayor; attitude to an absolute majority for one of the major parties; preferred government coalition; perceived support of the two top candidates by their parties; assumed and preferred coalition behavior of the FDP; issue relevance; issue competence of possible senates; comparison of the economic situation of Hamburg with that in the rest of the Federal Republic; attitude to nuclear power plants; assumed winner in the next metropolitan council 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 or 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.