Summary information

Study title

Kiel Election Study 1987

Creator

Kaltefleiter, Werner (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel )
Bürklin, Wilhelm P. (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel)

Study number / PID

ZA1681, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1681 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians. Topics: political interest; issue relevance and issue competence of parties and politicians; judgement on current and future economic situation in the Federal Republic as well as in comparison to the previous year; party preference (ballot procedure); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; personal change of party voted for; assumed significance of the composition of the new Federal Government for the further development of the Federal Republic; political parties as representatives for the interests of selected population groups; classification of political parties and leading politicians as well as self-assessment on a left-right continuum; judgement on ability and sympathy scale for political parties and leading politicians; party inclination and party supporter; change in party inclination and earlier party preference; attitude to the Greens; judgement on conduct and influence of trade unions in the Federal Republic; attitude to construction of new nuclear power plants; postmaterialism index; preference for security policies in the western alliance or neutrality; security with or without nuclear weapons; judgement on the importance of selected political factual questions for one´s own election decision; preference for federal chancellor and assumed election winner; necessity of a new party; attitude to profit for entrepreneurs and judgement on the fairness of distribution in the Federal Republic; satisfaction with life in the Federal Republic; judgement on social inequality in the Federal Republic and attitude to these differences; type of city of residence; residential status; assumed winner in the next Federal Parliament election; assumption that FDP and Greens will take seats in the Federal Parliament. The following additional questions were posed in writing: determining one´s own position on tax reform, on the securing of peace, on the right to asylum, on...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

12/1986 - 01/1987

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

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview
Self-administered questionnaire
Oral and written survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1988

Terms of data access

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

Related publications

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