State Election in North Rhine-Westphalia 1966 (Preliminary Investigation, March 1966)

Attitude to the state government, the parties and the state parliament
election in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Topics: Satisfaction with the state government (scale); assessment of
the effects of the state parliament election on federal politics; issue
ability of the parties as well as of the federal and state government;
sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU/CSU and FDP as well as for the most
important state and federal politicians; degree of familiarity of state
politicians and candidates for state parliament of the constituency;
personal intent to participate in the election; certainty and time of
election decision; voting intent in the next state parliament election;
second preference in voting decision; behavior at the polls in the
Federal Parliament election 1965 and in the state parliament election
1962; reasons for a change in party voted for; judgement on the
importance of Federal Parliament, state parliament and municipal
elections (scale); expected changes with a change of government at
state level; judgement on the development of the economic situation of
the FRG and one´s own economic situation; membership in clubs and
organizations; party inclination of the club; religiousness.

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

Interviewer rating: social class and willingness of respondent to
cooperate; number of contact attempts; city size.