Summary information

Study title

Germany after the Change of Government

Creator

IPOS, Institut für praxisorientierte Sozialforschung, Mannheim
Bundesverband deutscher Banken, Gesellschaft für Bankpublizität, Köln

Study number / PID

ZA3221, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.3221 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Expectations of the new government and judgement on the top politicians in the government. Topics: most important problems in Germany; party preference (Sunday question); personal expectations of the planned tax reform; judgement on the tax reform; attitude to reduction of the maximum tax rate; attitude to increase in the petroleum tax and abandoning atomic energy; attitude to correction of the reduction in the level of pensions; expected policies of the new middle through the new government; loss of prestige for the chancellor from Stollmann's giving up his candidacy for the office as Minister of Trade and Commerce; satisfaction with filling individual minister positions; assumed problem-solving ability of the new government; expectation of great political changes through the change of government; mood of new beginning from the change of government; expected reduction in unemployment. Demography: age; school education; occupational training; marital status; employment; jeopardy to one's job; occupational position; household size and persons 18 years old and older; union membership; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; sex; state; city size.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

10/1998 - 11/1998

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Sample according to the RLD procedure and birthday key. Two separate samples for Eastern and Western Germany.

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Telephone interview with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2000

Terms of data access

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

Related publications

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