Complete Barometer 1995 (Cumulated Data Set)

Judgement on parties and politicians. Political questions. European
Union. Questions on unification.

Topics: In all 10 individual studies
the following questions were repeated: most important political
problems in the country; city size; intent to participate in the
election and party preference; behavior at the polls in the last
Federal Parliament election; sympathy scale for parties and politicians
as well as for the Federal Government and opposition; most sympathetic
party (rank order); living together with a partner; union membership;
religiousness; unemployed in social surroundings; party inclination;
party identification; day of survey; district code. In at least one
survey the following additional questions were posed: satisfaction with
election result; attitude to a one-party government of CDU/CSU;
coalition preference; attitude to a grand coalition; preference for
federal chancellor; comparison between Kohl and his challengers as well
as between Scharping and Schroeder; preferred SPD candidate for
chancellor; assignment of government services to federal government,
states or municipalities; adequate service performance of the federal
government, states and municipalities for the taxes collected by them;
judgement on the economic situation in Western Germany and in Eastern
Germany as well as expected changes; personal economic situation and
its expected development; influence of the governing party on one´s own
economic situation; expected upwards development of the German economy;
ability of the parties to solve the economic problems in Eastern
Germany and in Western Germany as well as in the fight against
unemployment, the fight against crime, security policy, policies on
environmental protection, currency stability and in improving the
situation in the housing market; attitude to counting sick days and
time at health resorts against vacation; attitude to Saturday work;
judgement on the solidarity surcharge; attitude to the exercise of
pressure by the Federal Government on Russia due to the Chechnya war;
attitude to CDU/Greens coalitions at state level; self-classification
on a left-right continuum; fears of personal harm to health through
mad-cow disease (BSE); attitude to retention of public law television
stations; ARD {First German Television Network}, ZDF {Second German
Television Network} or third programs as candidates for possible
elimination given financial shortage; future role of the NATO after
dissolution of the East Bloc; general attitude to an extension to the
East of the NATO and preferred countries for admission into the NATO;
attitude to a professional army in the Federal Republic; judgement on
current problems with compensating the costs in nursing care insurance;
assessment of the probabilities of success of the UN climate
conference; preference for an independent country or merger with the
countries of the EU; advantageousness of membership of the country in
the EU; attitude to replacement of the DM by the ECU; approval of
stricter German concepts for the common European currency; preferred
name for the European currency; expected stability of a common European
currency in comparison to the DM; approval of the DM as common European
currency; preference for the same name for the currency in all
countries or supplement by the designation of the respective national
currency; necessity of a common European currency; accepting new
countries as development perspective of the EU; welcoming elimination
of border checks through the Schengen Treaty; feared increase of crime
through elimination of border checks; attitude to a rapid acceptance of
Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, the Slovak Republic,
Baltic countries, Turkey, Slovenia and Croatia in the EU; attitude to
blue helmet missions of the Federal German Armed Forces; judgement on
the development of living conditions in the new states; adequate effort
of the Federal Government for the achievement of equivalent living
conditions in East and West; judgement on the position of the FDP in
the government coalition; FDP as appendage of the CDU/CSU; preferred
FDP chairman and expected development of the party with a new chairman;
FDP has become unnecessary; judgement on a renewed candidacy of Federal
Chancellor Kohl; alternative candidates for chancellor in the CDU/CSU;
general attitude to unification of Germany and judgement on the
unification process; judgement on the achievement of equivalent living
conditions in East and West up to now; comparison of the current
economic situation in Eastern Germany with the economic situation
before the turning point; judgement on current education chances,
social security, occupational prospects of advancement and legal
certainty in Eastern Germany in comparison to the time before the
turning point; expected duration of equalizing conditions in Eastern
and Western Germany; attitude to acceptance of international
responsibility by the Federal Republic; judgement on the military
actions of NATO and the UN in Bosnia; attitude to deployment of German
soldiers for surveillance of the armistice in Bosnia; approval of
expanded powers for the police to combat organized crime; attitude to
bugging private areas by the police; judgement on reduced tax revenues
of the country; preference for governmental increased indebtedness or
reduction in expenditures; earnings-related unemployment benefit,
foreign aid, European Community, agriculture, public administration,
social services, environmental protection, defense, research or
long-time unemployed help as preferred areas for governmental reduction
in expenditures; attitude to lengthening store opening times; judgement
on the change in SPD party chairmanship; judgement on the manner of
replacing the old party chairman; assumed support of the new party
chairman Lafontaine by the party rank and file; expected change in
political orientation of the SPD; postmaterialism (Inglehart index).