State Election in Bremen 1987

Topics: most important problems in Bremen; intent to participate in the election; party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure); behavior at the polls in the last metropolitan council election; certainty of one´s voting decision; personal change in party voted for; satisfaction with the government and opposition (scale); assumed probability as well as attitude to taking seats in the metropolitan council by the FDP und the Greens; preferred mayor; sympathy scale for the parties as well as for the top politicians of the state; political interest; attitude to an absolute majority for one of the major parties; preferred government coalition; issue competence of possible senates; comparison of the economic situation in Bremen with that in the rest of the Federal Republic; assumed winner in the next metropolitan council election; significance of the election result for the future of the state.

Demography: month and year of birth; sex; marital status; number of persons in household 18 years old or older; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school degree achieved and sought; vocational training; academic degree of respondent; occupational position; employment; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household; party preference; union membership. Interviewer rating: length of interview; date and day of interview; number of unsuccessful contact attempts.