Summary information

Study title

Federal Parliament Election 1965 (Initial Investigation, September 1965)

Creator

Kaase, M. (Lehrstuhl für politische Wissenschaft, Universität Mannheim )
Wildenmann, R. (Lehrstuhl für politische Wissenschaft, Universität Mannheim)

Study number / PID

ZA0556, Version 2.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.11987 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Perception of parties, politicians and political topics a few days before the Federal Parliament election 1965. Topics: sympathy scale for SPD, CDU/CSU, FDP and for the politicians Adenauer, Erler, Erhard, Strauss, Brandt, Mende and Schroeder; preferred federal chancellor; most recent change in party sympathy; issue competence of the parties as well as of the politicians Erhard and Brandt; intent to participate in the election; certainty and time of personal voting decision; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1961 and voting intent for the Federal Parliament election 1965; party identification; reasons for election participation; preferred composition of the Federal Government; desired relation of domestic and foreign policy; desired influence of various associations; judgement on subsidies for agriculture; most important sources of political information; media usage; frequency of political conversations; preferred television station; interest in news broadcasts on television and political television broadcasts; development of personal economic situation; membership in a trade union and ties to the trade union. Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational training; occupation; employment; composition of household; head of household; political discussion; self-assessment of social class; state; possession of durable economic goods. Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate; number of contact attempts; social class of respondent. Also encoded was: identification of interviewer.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

09/1965

Country

Germany

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage
Multi-stage random 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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