Cologne Election Study (Dortmund, Arnsberg-Soest, Heilbronn, Munich; November 1961)

Topics: Political interest, assessment of the sincerity of friends in political conversations; knowledge about the constituency delegate in Federal Parliament; image and sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU/CSU, FDP and for selected federal politicians; judgement on the conduct of the parties in the election campaign; evaluation of the election result and the government coalition; behavior at the polls in all elections since 1945; most recent change of party sympathy; party preference and party identification; party preference of family and friends; judgement on economic development (Katona questions); general contentment with life; importance of areas of life (scale); preferred character traits; personal opinion allegiance; self-assessment of social class; affiliation and class of friends (scale); memberships; religiousness.

Scale: nationalism. Demography: marital status; occupation; age(classified); composition of household; regional origins; refugee status; personally a prisoner of war; head of household; household income (classified); school education; vocational training; military service; social origins; tenancy; religious denomination; sex. Interviewer rating: social class, reliability and willingness of respondent to cooperate; number of contact attempts; presence of other persons; length of interview; type of building and condition of residence.