Study title

Political information behavior; party preference and judgement on the election campaign in the Federal Parliament election 1965. Topics: economic situation of respondent and evaluation of the economic situation of the FRG (Katona questions); extent to which informed politically and sources of political information; frequency of use and trustworthiness of political information in the mass media; frequency of political discussions; possibilities for individuals to influence political decisions; attitudes to elections and to the party system; satisfaction with the election result; estimate of the significance of election campaigns and of the value of information on election campaign methods; efficiency of election campaign advertisements; memory of election predictions and presumed influence on the election result; significance of the chancellor candidate for the election result; party preference; party identification of the primary environment; sympathy scale and semantic differential for CDU/CSU, SPD and FDP; sympathy scale for selected politicians; motives for personal election participation; voting behavior in the Federal Parliament elections 1965 and 1961; time and reasons for the election decision; satisfaction with the election result; preferred government coalition; judgement on the behavior of the FDP in the formation of the government; judgement on the qualification of Mende and Strauss as well as the performance of the FDP of late; possession of a television set and possibility of receiving both television stations; memberships and political orientation of the organizations; use of media. Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational training; occupation; professional position; employment; head of household; state; refugee status; possession of durable economic goods. Interviewer rating: social class of respondent; city size. A party-preference index was also encoded.