Politics in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland (Cumulated Data Set)

Judgement on parties and politicians in the Saarland, in
Baden-Wuerttemberg and in Rhineland-Palatinate. Attitude to current
political questions.

Topics: judgement on the economic situation and further development in
the FRG as well as in one´s state; expected development of personal
prosperity; interest in politics; most important political tasks in the
FRG as well as in one´s state; importance of political issues and issue
ability of the parties and selected politicians; personal opinion
allegiance or personal opinion leadership; degree of familiarity of
state politicians and their functions in government; party preference
on the levels of municipal election, state parliament election, Federal
Parliament election and European Election (Sunday question, ballot
procedure); behavior at the polls in earlier elections and change of
party preference; certainty of one´s voting decision; expected election
winner; party inclination; party identification; duration of party
inclination; positive and negative characteristics of selected top
politicians; satisfaction with government or government coalition and
individual parties; most active party in the state; self-assessment on
a left-right continuum as well as classification of parties and prime
minister candidates on a 20-step left-right continuum; degree of
opinion agreement with politicians and change of this agreement;
judgement on capability of selected politicians; satisfaction with the
political system in the Federal Republic; particularly preferred state
politicians; preferred top politician for a coalition government;
behavior at the polls given earlier elections; attitude to firm
statement of willingness to form a coalition before election; attitude
to current state government and attitude to continuation of the
coalition government (scale).

Demography: sex; birthday; age; religious denomination; frequency of
church attendance; self-assessment of social class; marital status;
employment of spouse; party inclination of partner; school degree;
employment; earlier employment; occupational group; type of income;
union membership; position in household; position regarding head of
household; characteristics of head of household; size of household;
composition of household; number of persons with their own income; net
household income.

Interviewer rating: city size; presence of other persons during
interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate and reliability of
responses; length of interview.