State Election in Baden-Wuerttemberg 1984

Judgement on parties and politicians shortly before the state
parliament election in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Topics: personal intent to participate in the election or absentee
ballot; personal change in party voted for; voting intent; certainty of
one´s voting decision; other party one can vote for; election procedure
at the last election; party preference (rank order procedure);
satisfaction with government and opposition (scale); satisfaction with
top candidates of one´s preferred party; sympathy scale for leading
politicians in state; attitude to the Greens and FDP in parliament;
attitude to an absolute majority of the CDU; preferred government
coalition; most important state political topics and their significance
for one´s own voting decision; preferred head of government; most
active party in election campaign; assumed election winner; assumed
taking seats in Parliament by smaller parties; personal intent to
participate in a Federal Parliament election and preferred party there
(Sunday question); behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament
election in March 1983; satisfaction with the CDU/CSU-FDP coalition in
Bonn; 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
member; religious denomination; religiousness; party inclination; party
identification; characterization of residential area based on social
status of neighbors.