Summary information

Study title

State Election in Saxony 2019

Creator

Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim

Study number / PID

ZA7596, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.13556 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Assessment of parties and politicians. Attitude towards political issues. Topics: Most important political issues in Saxony; intention to participate in the state election; intended type of election (polling station or postal vote); party preference (first vote and second vote); security of one´s own voting decision; interest in the state election; importance of federal politics for one´s own voting decision at state level; voting behaviour in the last state election; coalition preference; opinion on participation in government by the parties CDU, Die Linke, SPD, AfD, Greens and FDP after the state election; sympathy Scale for selected parties at federal and state level (Split A); satisfaction with the performance of the state government from the CDU and SPD, with the CDU and SPD as parts of the state government, with the opposition parties Die Linke, AfD and Greens and with the performance of the federal government from the CDU/CSU and SPD (Scale, Split B); Sympathy Scale for top politicians Martin Dulig, Rico Gebhardt, Michael Kretschmer, Angela Merkel and Jörg Urban; party with the best or most votes Split A: Preference for Michael Kretschmer or Jörg Urban or for Michael Kretschmer or Rico Gebhardt as prime minister; comparison of the credibility, sympathy, expertise and closeness to the people of the two top politicians Michael Kretschmer and Rico Gebhardt (end of Split A); Split B: Preference for Michael Kretschmer or Rico Gebhardt or for Michael Kretschmer or Jörg Urban as Minister President; comparison of the credibility, sympathy, expertise and closeness to citizens of the two top politicians Michael Kretschmer and Jörg Urban (end of Split B); assessment of the own economic situation, the economic situation of the federal state in general and in comparison to the other east German states; Split A: most competent party to solve the economic problems in the federal state, for a better infrastructure in the areas of fast internet, public transport, medical...
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Methodology

Data collection period

26/08/2019 - 30/08/2019

Country

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2020

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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