Study title

Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians. Topics: political interest; party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure) at state and federal level; certainty of one´s voting decision; behavior at the polls in the last state parliament and Federal Parliament elections; sympathy scale for the parties at state and federal level; satisfaction with the state government and opposition (scale); sympathy scale for state and federal politicians; attitude to taking seats in state parliament by the FDP and the Greens; preferred government coalition; attitude to an absolute majority for one of the major parties; judgement on the reliability of the FDP as coalition partner for the CDU; assumed position of the FDP in a coalition; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; comparison of the general economic situation in Schleswig-Holstein with that in the rest of the Federal Republic; ability of the state or Federal Government regarding improvement in the economic situation in Schleswig-Holstein; most important problems of the state; self-assessment of personal social mobility. Demography: year of birth and month of birth; sex; marital status; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education; occupational position; employment; assessment of personal occupational position in comparison to that of father; number of persons 18 years old or older in household; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household; party inclination; party identification; union memberships in household; characterization of residential surroundings. The size of city was also encoded.