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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Methodology
Data collection period
12/1986 - 01/1987
Country
Germany
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Not availableUniverse
Not availableSampling procedure
Probability: Multistage
Probability: Stratified
Multi-stage stratified random sample
Kind of data
Not availableData 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.
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