Federal Survey 1978 (3rd Wave, September 1978)

Topics: political interest; most important tasks in the Federal Republic and issue ability of parties and politicians; judgement on current economic development of the country; party preference (ballot procedure); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; behavior at the polls given a hypothetical nation-wide separation of CDU and CSU; judgement on the tax and economic program of the Federal Government; judgement on the coming Federal President election; coalition preference; desired position of the FDP; judgement on the Green Lists and a tax party; election chances of the Green Lists in comparison to those of a tax party; personal voting intent for such parties; characterization of the Green Lists as well as of the tax party (semantic differential); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education; occupational position; employment; income; household income; size of household; composition of household; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household; party inclination; party identification; self-assessment of social class; city size; state; union membership; party inclination; party identification; number of persons in household with their own income.