Before the European Election 1984

Attitude to European questions and judgement on parties as well as
politicians before the European Election.

Topics: right people as leaders of the Federal Republic; party
preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure); behavior at the
polls in the last Federal Parliament election in March 1983; sympathy
scale for the SPD, CDU, CSU, FDP and the Greens as well as for the
politicians Genscher, Kohl, Strauss and Vogel; satisfaction with the
CDU/CSU/FDP government in Bonn; satisfaction with the SPD and the
Greens in opposition; extent to which informed and interest in the
European Election; sources of information about the European Election;
personal intent to participate in the election; voting intent; election
participation and behavior at the polls in the European Election 1979;
preferred form of political unification in Europe; assessment of future
development of the European Parliament; advantages or disadvantages of
West German membership in the EC; assessment of personally perceived
importance of parliament decisions at municipal, state, federal and
European level; satisfaction scale for the European Parliament;
progress in European unification; solution of problems such as
unemployment, environmental protection, agricultural over-production
and foreign aid at national level; general attitude to the European
Parliament; membership in a trade union; religiousness; party
inclination; social status of residential area.

Demography: household size and number of adult persons in household;
sex; age; marital status; school degree; employment; occupation; head
of household; employment and occupation of head of household; union
membership; religious denomination; religiousness; party inclination;
party identification; characterization of residential area based on
social status of neighbors.

Also encoded was: city code.