Summary information

Study title

State Election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1998

Creator

Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim

Study number / PID

ZA3168, Version 2.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.11278 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Judgement on parties and politicians before the state parliament election. Political questions on the state parliament election. Topics: most important problems in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania; intent to participate in the next state parliament election in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania; preference for absentee ballot; party preference (first vote and second vote as well as party one likes best); party inclination and party identification; time and certainty of one's voting decision; significance of the state parliament election in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania at federal level; behavior at the polls in the last state parliament election; coalition preference; PDS toleration; sympathy scale for the CDU, SPD, PDS at federal level as well as sympathy scale for the CDU, SPD and the PDS at state level; satisfaction scale for the achievements of the state government in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania as well as of the individual partners CDU and SPD; achievement of the PDS opposition; satisfaction scale for the achievements of the Federal Government, the CDU, the CSU and the FDP in the Federal Government; degree of familiarity of the top candidates for the office of prime minister; sympathy scale for top politicians in the state and at federal level; interst in politics; preference for prime minister; comparison of credibility, energy, sympathy, responsibility, expertise of the two top candidates Bernd Seite and Harald Ringstorff; judgement on the general economic situation in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and one's own economic situation; expected economic situation for Mecklenburg-West Pomerania; comparison of the economic situation of the state with the rest of Eastern Germany; most able party in the areas business, job creation, fight against crime and future problems of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania; personal feeling of danger from crime; judgement on the current prime minister; dealing of the parties with the PDS and credibility of renaming the SED as PDS; expected election winner...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

09/1998

Country

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage
Sample of households according to the RLD procedure. Sample of target persons according to the birthday method.

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Telephone interview
Telephone interview with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2012

Terms of data access

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

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