German National Election Study - Post-Election Study 1998 German CSES Study

Judgement on parties and politicians after the Federal Parliament
election. Behavior at the polls and political knowledge. Topics:
satisfaction with democracy; correctly conducting the Federal
Parliament election; party identification (rank order); necessity of
parties; memory of direct candidates in the constituency and knowledge
of names; sympathy scale for parties and leading politicians;
assessment of the economic situation of Germany and perceived change in
the course of the last few years; populism of members of Parliament and
parties; contact with a member of Parliament; significance of the
governing party for the respondent; perceived political effectiveness
through one´s own voting decision; expressing personal political
opinion taboo; self-assessment and assessment of parties on a
left-right continuum; political knowledge test (name of foreign
minister, number of states in Germany and member countries in the EU);
most important topics in the media in the last few days; most able
party to solve current problems in the Federal Republic; personal
change in party voted for; interest in politics; expected development
of personal standard of living; most important election campaign topics
for the respondent and assignment of election campaign topics to the
parties; issue-competence of different governments and coalitions;
comparison of personal character traits and political abilities of the
two candidates for chancellor Kohl and Schroeder (split); preference
for representative or direct democracy (split: exchange of sequence of
the permitted response alternatives); personal election participation
at the last Federal Parliament election and behavior at the polls
regarding first vote and second vote; current party preference (Sunday
question). Demography: year of birth; sex; school degree; marital
status; living together with a partner; union membership; union member
in household; extent of employment; occupation; size of household and
number of adult persons in household; employment and occupational
position of partner as well as head of household; household income;
religiousness; religious denomination; characterization of place of
residence; state; municipality code; city name; city size; survey date.