State Election in Saarland 2017

Assessment of parties and politicians. Attitude towarads political issues.

Topics: eligibility to vote in the state election in Saarland; most important political issues in Saarland; intention to participate in the state election; intended voting type (polling station or postal vote); party preference; certainty of personal voting decision; importance of federal politics for the personal voting decision at state level; interest in the state election; voting behaviour in the last state election; coalition preference; attitude towards a government of CDU and SPD led by CDU, of SPD and CDU led by SPD, of SPD and Die Linke, of SPD, Die Linke and Grünen as well as a government of CDU, Grünen and FDP; sympathy scale for selected parties at federal and state level; satisfaction with the state government of CDU and SPD, the individual parties CDU and SPD in the state government, the parties Die Linke, Piratenpartei and Grüne in the opposition in the state parliament as well as the federal government of CDU/CSU and SPD (Skalometer); knowledge of the CDU and SPD top candidates for the office of prime minister; sympathy-scalometer for selected top politicians (Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Oskar Lafontaine, Angela Merkel, Anke Rehlinger, Martin Schulz and Hubert Ulrich); party that pleases best and second best; political interest; preference for Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer or Anke Rehlinger as Prime Minister; split A: comparison of the credibility, sympathy, expertise and energy of the two leading politicians Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Anke Rehlinger (end of split A); assessment of the economic situation of the federal state in general and in comparison with the other western German states; economic expectations for the Saarland; assessment of the personal economic situation at present and in one year; split B: most competent party for solving the economic and financial problems in the federal state, in the areas of job creation, school policy and education policy, transport policy (end of split B) as well as social justice; party that is most likely to represent a policy in the personal sense concerning refugees; opinion on the sustainability of the federal state; most competent party for solving future problems of the federal state; assessment of the work of Prime Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer; Chancellor Angela Merkel helpful or harmful for the CDU´s performance in the state election; SPD candidate for chancellor Martin Schulz helpful or harmful for the SPD´s performance in the state election; intention to vote SPD in the state election only because of Martin Schulz; expected and preferred action of the SPD after the state election in the event of a worse result than the CDU (grand coalition led by the CDU or joint government with the left); choosing the AfD on the basis of political demands of the AfD or as a lesson for the other parties; intention to vote AfD in the state election on the basis of political demands of the AfD or as a lesson for the other parties; adequate separation of the AfD in Saarland from right-wing extremist contents and members; importance of selected topics for the own voting decision in the state election (school and education, social justice, debt of Saarland and refugees); Saarland can cope with many refugees; agreement to the statement: after the decline of coal and steel, Saarland has managed the economic structural change well (split B); opinion on a ban on election campaign appearances by Turkish politicians in Saarland (split A); expected winner of the state election (split B); opinion on government participation by the party Die Linke (split A); fair share of living standards.

Demography: sex; age (classified); marital status; cohabitation with a partner; highest school leaving certificate or desired school leaving certificate; university degree; completed vocational training; occupation; assessment of own job security; occupational status; household size; number of persons aged 18 and over in the household; trade union member in the household; denomination; frequency of church attendance; party affiliation; party identification; number of telephone numbers in the household; city size.

Additionally coded was: questionnaire number; weighting factor.

Various questions were asked only half of the respondents. A forked questionnaire was used.

本数据集用于评估政党与政治家，并调研民众对各类政治议题的态度。
调研主题涵盖：萨尔州（Saarland）州议会选举的投票资格；萨尔州当前最突出的政治议题；参与本次州议会选举的意向；拟采用的投票方式（现场投票或邮寄投票）；政党支持偏好；个人投票决定的确定性；联邦政治对个人州选举投票决策的重要性；对本次州议会选举的关注程度；上一次州议会选举的投票行为；联合执政偏好；对以下执政组合的态度：由基民盟（CDU）主导的基民盟-社民党联合政府、由社民党（SPD）主导的社民党-基民盟联合政府、社民党与左翼党（Die Linke）联合政府、社民党、左翼党与绿党（Grüne）联合政府，以及基民盟、绿党与自由民主党（FDP）联合政府；联邦及州层面选定政党的好感度量表；对基民盟与社民党联合州政府、州政府内的基民盟与社民党两党、州议会反对党中的左翼党、海盗党（Piratenpartei）与绿党，以及基民盟/基社盟（CDU/CSU）与社民党组成的联邦政府的满意度（采用评分量表（Skalometer））；对基民盟与社民党两党州总理候选人的认知程度；选定政界人士的好感度量表：安内格雷特·克兰普-卡伦鲍尔（Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer）、奥斯卡·拉方丹（Oskar Lafontaine）、安格拉·默克尔（Angela Merkel）、安克·雷林格（Anke Rehlinger）、马丁·舒尔茨（Martin Schulz）与胡贝特·乌尔里希（Hubert Ulrich）；最受青睐与第二受青睐的政党；政治关注度；偏好安内格雷特·克兰普-卡伦鲍尔还是安克·雷林格担任州总理；A组分割：对比两位核心政客的可信度、好感度、专业能力与履职精力（A组分割结束）；对萨尔州整体经济状况及与其他西德州对比的评估；对萨尔州经济前景的预期；对当前及未来一年个人经济状况的评估；B组分割：在解决萨尔州经济财政问题、创造就业、学校与教育政策、交通政策及社会公平领域最具能力的政党；最能契合个人难民政策立场的政党；对萨尔州可持续发展的看法；解决萨尔州未来各类问题最具能力的政党；对州总理安内格雷特·克兰普-卡伦鲍尔履职情况的评估；联邦总理安格拉·默克尔对基民盟本次州选举表现的影响（有益/有害）；社民党总理候选人马丁·舒尔茨对社民党本次州选举表现的影响（有益/有害）；仅因马丁·舒尔茨而计划投票给社民党的意向；若社民党本次州选举表现差于基民盟，其预期与偏好的后续行动（如组建基民盟主导的大联合政府，或与左翼党组建联合政府）；因德国选择党（AfD）的政治诉求而支持该党，或为惩戒其他政党而投票给该党的情况；计划因德国选择党的政治诉求，或为惩戒其他政党而在本次州选举中投票给该党的意向；萨尔州德国选择党是否与右翼极端主义内容及成员划清界限；选定议题对个人本次州选举投票决策的重要性（学校与教育、社会公平、萨尔州债务与难民问题）；萨尔州能够接纳大量难民；对“煤炭与钢铁产业衰落之后，萨尔州已成功完成经济结构转型”这一表述的认同程度（B组分割）；对土耳其政治家在萨尔州开展竞选活动的禁令的看法（A组分割）；本次州议会选举的预期赢家（B组分割）；对左翼党参与联合执政的看法（A组分割）；生活公平分配。
人口统计学特征涵盖：性别；年龄分组；婚姻状况；是否与伴侣同居；最高学历或预期取得的学历；大学学位持有情况；已完成的职业培训；职业；对自身工作稳定性的评估；职业身份；家庭规模；家庭中18岁及以上人口数量；家庭内的工会成员情况；宗教教派；教堂礼拜出席频率；党派归属；政党认同；家庭内的电话号码数量；城市规模。
此外还编码了问卷编号与加权因子（weighting factor）。
本次调研采用分叉式问卷设计，部分问题仅面向半数受访者发放。