State Election in North Rhine-Westphalia 1995

Judgement on parties and politicians in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Attitude to current political questions at state level. Topics: Most
important political problems in North Rhine-Westphalia; intent to
participate in the state election; preference for absentee ballot;
point in time and certainty of one´s voting decision; behavior at the
polls in the last state parliament election; attitude to a one-party
government of SPD after the election; coalition preference; sympathy
scale for selected parties at federal and state level as well as for
the top politicians of the state; knowledge about the SPD and CDU top
candidates; party preference at state and federal level; satisfaction
with the achievements of the SPD state government; interest in
politics; preference for prime minister; judgement on the credibility,
the energy, the sympathy, the sense of responsibility and expertise of
Johannes Rau in comparison to Helmut Linssen; judgement on economic
situation of the state as well as personal economic situation;
comparison of the economic situation of the state with the rest of the
western federal territory; most able of the two parties (CDU and SPD)
in the areas job creation, environmental protection, fight against
crime and creation of housing; expected winner of the state parliament
election; expected election result for the SPD, the FDP, the Greens and
the DVU {deutsche Volksunion}; living together with a partner;
assessment of personal job security; jeopardy to job and unemployment
in the close circle of friends; union membership; religiousness; party
inclination; party identification.