Summary information

Study title

Autumn Study 1977

Creator

Sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungsinstitut der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, St. Augustin

Study number / PID

ZA1505, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1505 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Judgement on parties and politicians. Topics: besides questions uniform at the federal level the questionnaire also contains questions only posed in individual states: 1. Federal part: judgement on the economic situation in the Federal Republic and assessment of economic development of personal household; satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; political interest; most important political events in the last year and judgement on them by the respondent; attitude to state, politicians and political participation (scale); party preference (ballot procedure); classification of parties and politicians as well as self-classification on a left-right continuum; most important political tasks in the Federal Republic and issue competence of the parties; satisfaction with the job of the government coalition and opposition; most important characteristics of a desirable society and degree of realization in the Federal Republic; party inclination; issue position of the candidates for chancellor as well as of the parties; assessment of personal importance of these issues; personal election participation at the last Federal Parliament election; general agreement of one´s own political opinions with the top politicians of the parties as well as the parties themselves (scale); assessment of the fairness of the courts in the Federal Republic; effort of the parties for selected social groups; underprivileged groups; institutions that should be first to make an effort for these underprivileged; importance of issues and issue positions of the parties; attitude to tax party; attitude to nuclear power plants in general and to construction of further nuclear power plants; assumed position of the SPD, CDU/CSU and the FDP on construction of further nuclear power plants (scale); assessment of the influence of personalities, associations and groupings on SPD as well as CDU; attitude to guest workers and making jobs available for German workers; perceived possibility to combat...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

09/1977 - 11/1977

Country

Germany

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage
Probability: Stratified
Multi-stage stratified random sample (ADM mastersample). Besides the representative sample for the rest of the Federal Republic Supplemental samples were drawn by over-representation in the states Lower Saxony, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview
Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1986

Terms of data access

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

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