Federal Parliament Election 2005 - Citizens and Parties in a Changed World

Judgement of parties and politicians. Attitude to political questions.

Topics: satisfaction with democracy; strength of the respondent`s
interest in politics in general and in the Bundestag election campaign
2005; interest in election campaign advertising via posters, TV, radio,
flyer, Internet, information stand and election campaign event; most
important election campaign issues reminded; political knowledge:
meaning of first vote and second vote; own participation at the
parliamentary elections; voting decision: first vote and second vote;
reminded constituency candidates of the SPD, CDU, FDP, Bündnis90/die
Grünen and the Linkspartei/PDS; total number of mentioned candidates;
sympathy scale for the mentioned candidates; most important reasons for
one`s own voting decision (second vote;) motives for not voting;
chancellor preference for Gerhard Schröder or Angela Merkel;
satisfaction with the performance of the Federal Government by SPD and
Bündnis90/die Grünen; preference for SPD, CDU, Bündnis90/die Grünen,
FDP, die Linke/PDS or NPD as party in power; probability of a
government participation of the preferred party; sympathy scale for
SPD, CDU, CSU, Bündnis90/die Grünen, FDP, die Linke/PDS, NPD, Gerhard
Schröder and Angela Merkel; self-assessment on a left-right continuum;
left-right classification of SPD, CDU, CSU, Bündnis90/die Grünen, FDP,
die Linke/PDS, NPD, Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel; most important
problems in Germany; the most competent party to solve these problems;
opinion on the policy of Angela Merkel; personal opinion and presumed
position of the parties with regard to: introduction of the so called
Bürgerversicherung (health insurance), full membership of Turkey in the
EU, added value tax increase and the prolongation of the running times
of German nuclear power stations; assessment of the problem solution
competence, sympathy, reliability, strong leadership, team ability,
representation of interests abroad, support by his own party and
citizen proximity of the candidates for the chancellorship (Schröder
and Merkel); unity of SPD, CDU/CSU, Bündnis90/die Grünen, FDP, die
Linke/PDS, and NPD; political effectiveness (scale: efficacy);
right-wing extremism (scale); party preference (Sunday question);
frequency of the reception of political information from daily
newspaper, television and internet.

Demography: sex; age: month and year of birth; denomination;
frequency of church attendance; the highest school-leaving
qualification or aspired school-leaving qualification; completed
professional teaching; employment; employment in the public service;
professional position; household size; present unemployment of
household members; marital status; living together with a partner;
number of children; number of children under 18 years; membership or
function in a citizens´ action group, a party, trade organization or
labor union; party inclination and party identification; household net
income; self-assessment of social class.

Additionally coded was: sex, age (year of birth) and the highest
school-leaving qualification of the interviewer; region; proportional
and disproportionately person weight, east west design weight; federal
state; county; size of city; date of interview; duration of interview.

Interviewer rating: presence of other persons during the interview;
intervention of other persons during the interview; willingness to
cooperate and assessment of the credibility of the respondent; detail
of the questions at which the details were less reliable.