Study title

Judgement on parties and politicians on the state parliament election in North Rhine-Westphalia. Topics: Political extent to which informed; judgement on the sincerity of conversation partners in political discussions; sources of political information and media usage; importance of elections and political work at the various political levels; attitude to federal national government; preferred authority distribution between federal government and state; preferred federal chancellor and desired coalition after the state parliament election; satisfaction with state government; most important political problems at state level; image of the parties as well as sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU, FDP and selected politicians; knowledge about the constituency delegate; certainty and time of personal voting decision; reason for one´s own election participation and party preference; party preference of family and friends; party one cannot vote for; expected changes with an SPD victory; assessment of the significance of the election campaign; attitude to intervention of special interest groups in election campaign events; attention to the election campaign; distance from workplace and means of transport used; judgement on the economic situation (Katona questions); memberships; religiousness. Demography: possession of durable economic goods; head of household; marital status; occupation; age (classified); size of household; regional origins; refugee status; personally a prisoner of war; household income (classified); school training and vocational training; military service; social origins; religious denomination; sex. Interviewer rating: social class of respondent; city size; type of building and condition of residence; length of interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate; number of contact attempts.