Post-Election Survey on the National Parliament Election 2005 - German CSES Study (Pilot)

Attitude towards parties and politicians after the parliamentary elections.
Voting behaviour and political knowledge.

Topics: Most important political issues in Germany; the most
competent party to resolve these issues; significance of the ruling
party for the respondent; assessment of the last parliamentary
elections regarding correctness and fairness; judgment of the
performance of the Federal Government during the last 3 years;
representation of one’s personal views by a party and a favourite
candidate; favourite candidate as well as party which represents the
view of the respondent most likely; sympathy scale for the parties CDU,
CSU, SPD, FDP, B90/Die Grünen, Die Linke/PDS and NPD as well as for
Gerhard Schröder, Angela Merkel, Edmund Stoiber, Guido Westerwelle,
Joschka Fischer, Gregor Gysi, Oskar Lafontaine and Udo Voigt;
self-assessment on a left-right continuum as well as left-right
classification of the parties; perceived differences between the
parties; personal attention to the election campaign; satisfaction with
democracy; satisfaction with the range of political offers and the
proposals for solution by the parties; party affiliation and name of
this party; party identification; participation at the last
parliamentary elections in 2005 and recall (first vote and second
vote); non voters were asked: party preference; consideration of an
alternative second vote; second preference of the second vote;
ineligible party; participation at the parliamentary elections in 2002
and recall (first vote and second vote); knowledge test of the parties`
positions on selected issues: introduction of a so called
Bürgerversicherung (health insurance), revision of the Hartz IV reforms
as well as phasing out nuclear energy.

Demography: Age (year of birth); sex; highest school education;
marital status; living together with a partner; labour union
membership; Labour union member in the household; membership in a
businessman or employers´ federation, a farmers` organisation or a
professional organization; employment; work in the past; profession
(ISCO 88); education degree required for the profession; professional
position; area of business; employment and professional position of the
partner; profession and area of business of the partner (ISCO 88);
household net income; size of household; number of children in the
household; frequency of church attendance; self classification of the
religiousness; denomination; spoken language in the household; federal
state; degree of urbanization.

Additionally coded was: Constituency number; size of town; Federal State
(Berlin separated in east and west); weighting factors.