Summary information

Study title

The Situation after the Federal Parliament Election 1949

Creator

Institut für Demoskopie, Allensbach

Study number / PID

ZA2361, Version 2.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.11993 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Judgement on current economic and political questions. Topics: Election participation at the last Federal Parliament election; reasons for non-participation in the election; voting for the candidate of a party or a candidate without party affiliation; trust in party voted for; associations with the term socialization; belief in the political future of Germany; attitude to an active German peace initiative; expected development of a desire for peace in Germany, even under absence of independence of the country; personal readiness for action to regain political and economic independence of the country; willingness to make sacrifices for this independence; expectation of relative prosperity for West Germans; attitude to a re-distribution of national income; preference for free competition or socialization; preference for the Russian, English or German model of socialism; attitude to a strengthening of government influence due to socialism; expected ability of workers' representatives and trade unions regarding a socialist-led government; preferred management institution (works council, owner, trade unions, authorities, experts) for a socialized company; preference for restricted economic areas with customs duties or free world trade; judgement on the achievements of the parties since the collapse of 1949; preference for independence of the parties in achievement of their programs or preference for a common effort to achieve economic independence; attitude to Bonn as Federal Capital; preferred alternative capital city; refugee status; sign of the horoscope of respondent; height; preferred color; color of hair of respondent; listening to the radio. Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate. With some questions it was additionally encoded whether the respondent provided explanatory comments. In part these comments were encoded for content in the sense of an open question.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

08/1949

Country

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Quota
Quota sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview
Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2015

Terms of data access

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

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