Federal Parliament Election 1965 (Follow-Up Survey, October 1965, II)

Extent to which informed politically and behavior at the polls as well
as judgement on election campaign, election result, media and
politicians shortly after the Federal Parliament election 1965.

Topics: participation in election events; judgement on the election
campaign; judgement on the conduct of the top politicians in the
election campaign; memory of election slogans; satisfaction with the
election result and change of one´s own voting decision, if the
election result had been known before the election; personal behavior
at the polls and information on a possible change in party voted for;
events influencing one´s own voting decision at the last moment;
sympathy scale for the politicians Erhard, Brandt, Barzel, Schmidt,
Erler, Mende, Strauss, Schroeder, Wehner and Adenauer; feeling of
political participation through voting; behavior at the polls and party
sympathy; behavior at the polls of family and friends; importance of
political problems; self-classification of extent to which informed
politically and sources of political information; sources of
information about the programs and intents of the parties; media usage
and judgement on the objectivity of the political news and reports on
radio, television, daily newspapers, picture magazines and magazines;
importance of areas of life; judgement on one´s own economic situation
and the economic situation of the FRG (Katona questions); membership in
clubs or organizations and judgement on the party inclination of these
organizations.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious
denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational training;
occupation; employment; composition of household; head of household;
party preference; political discussion; self-assessment of social
class; state; refugee status; possession of durable economic goods.

Interviewer rating: social class of respondent; city size.