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Judgement on parties and politicians. Topics: political interest; judgement on economic situation in the Federal Republic; party preference (ballot procedure); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; trust in selected institutions such as chancellor, government, Federal Parliament, judiciary, police etc.; sympathy scale and assessment of political capability of the parties as well as of the most important federal politicians; assessment of reliability of political sources of information; behavior at the polls given a nation-wide separation of CDU and CSU; judgement on economic situation. The following questions were also posed in Lower Saxony: judgement on the economic situation of Lower Saxony; most important political tasks in the state and issue ability of parties and politicians; knowledge about the Green Lists and the political matter of concern of this party; attitude to the Greens gaining seats in the Lower Saxony state parliament; classification of state parties and politicians on a left-right continuum; self-classification on a left-right continuum; assessment of the position of the Lower Saxony CDU in comparison to the federal CDU; preference for prime minister; party preference for the next state parliament election; judgement on the job of the CDU/FDP coalition up to now in Lower Saxony as well as attitude to a possible model character of this coalition at federal level. Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education; occupational position; employment; income; household income; size of household; composition of household; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household; party inclination; party identification; self-assessment of social class; city size; state; union membership; party inclination; party identification; number of persons in household with their own income. Interviewer rating:...