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Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians. Topics: political interest; most important political problems in Schleswig-Holstein; party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure) at the state level; behavior at the polls in the last state parliament election; preference for prime minister; sympathy scale for state and federal politicians; preferred government coalition; attitude to an absolute majority for a party; assumed coalition behavior of the FDP; judgement on the general economic situation in Schleswig-Holstein in comparison to the rest of the Federal Republic; ability of a CDU or CDU/FDP or SPD-led state government to improve the economic situation; judgement on support of the top candidates of the SPD, CDU and FDP by their parties; preferred coalition partner of the FDP regarding achievement of political concepts of the FDP; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; assumed taking seats in the state parliament of the FDP and the Greens and attitude to this; significance of election results for the future of the state; assumed winner of the state parliament election; probability of an absolute majority for the SPD; attitude to termination of the discussion about the Barschel affair; city size. Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school degree; vocational training; college degree; occupational position; employment; journeymen´s test; activity in the civil service; military rank; number of persons 18 years old and older in household; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household; union memberships in household.