Federal Parliament Election 1972 (1st and 2nd Follow-Up Survey)

Political attitudes, judgement on the parties and party preference of
family and friends.

Topics: political interest; attitude to co-determination and to
abortion as well as ability of the parties regarding these topics;
attitude to wearing election badges and personal conduct regarding
this; sympathy scale for SPD, CDU, CSU, FDP, NPD and DKP; behavior at
the polls (first vote and second vote) in the Federal Parliament
elections 1969 and 1972; personal party ties; party preference of
father; detailed demographic information on closest friends as well as
their party preference; religiousness; local residency.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; school
education; vocational training; occupation; household income; size of
household; composition of household; self-assessment of social class;
social origins; city size; state.

Also encoded were the following aggregate data from the records of the
census of 1970: absolute number of residents; population change since
1961; average age of residential population; for each region percentage
proportions were recorded for the following: marital status, religion,
employment rate, employees in various economic areas, workers, civil
servants and employees, foreigners.