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Media usage and voting decision. Topics: Most interesting topics in the media; prediction of general economic development and personal living conditions; most important political problems; currently most able party; preference for chancellor; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election 1990 and party preference (Sunday question, first vote, second vote); reasons for vote splitting; preference for absentee ballot; most sympathetic party; coalition preference; habitual election inclination; assessment of the problem-solving ability of the established parties; media usage with daily newspapers and television; self-assessment of interest in politics; postmaterialism; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; good and bad sides of the SPD, the CSU and the FDP, the Greens and the PDS; party membership; union membership; religiousness. Also encoded were: day of interview; interview week; municipality code; city size.