Federal Parliament Election 1965 (Preliminary Investigation, July - September 1964)

Topics: attitude to the two or multiple party system; sympathy scale for SPD, CDU/CSU, FDP and politicians; judgement on domestic, foreign, and home policy, issue-competence of the parties; political interest; voting behavior in the Federal Parliament elections of 1957 and 1961; voting intent and estimation of the election results in 1965; attitude to the FDP as third force in the Federal Parliament, judgement on the FDP regarding its home policy; most important problems of the FRG; judgement on the present government coalition and Federal Chancellor Erhard; reading of newspapers and magazines as well as articles preferred; party membership; satisfaction with the economic situation and personal standard of living; religiousness.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation; income; head of household; state; refugee status. Interviewer rating: social class of respondent; type of city; city size.