Issue Dimensions and Voting Decision (September 1968)

Topics: voting behavior in the Federal Parliament election 1965; party preference and sympathy scale for CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP and NPD; preferred chancellor candidate; issue competence of the parties on questions of economic, social and foreign policy; party presumably with the most politicians without religious denomination; attitude to election of a politician without religious denomination; attitude to recognition of the GDR and to the grand coalition; perceived influence of organizations and pressure groups on German politics; knowledge of FDP politicians; membership in clubs and organizations, religiousness.

Demography: sex; marital status; religious denomination; occupation; professional position; employment; household income; size of household; composition of household; head of household; housing situation; possession of durable economic goods. Interviewer rating: social class of respondent; type of building; size of city.