Spring Study 1990

Political attitudes. Topics: Judgement on general as well personal economic situation as well as assessment of further development in a year; interest in politics; estimated influence of voters on politics; greatest political problems; most important social goals (scale); personal change in party voted for; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election 1987; satisfaction with party voted for; party preference (first and second votes, ballot procedure); attitude to the Republicans in Federal Parliament and acceptance of the Republicans; attitude to NATO and a neutral Europe; national pride; satisfaction with democracy; self-assessment and classification of the federal parties on a left-right continuum; party inclination; judgement on striving for justice; perceived discrimination in one´s own social position and expected future changes; attitude to admission of emigrants from the GDR, ethnic Germans from East Bloc nations and guest workers as well as persons seeking asylum; detailed demographic information on most frequent conversation partners and relationship of the conversation partners among one other; party preference of primary contact persons; closeness to church; fear of unemployment or short time work; self-assessment of social class; union membership and solidarity with trade unions; occupation in the civil service; primarily or partially carrying out jobs in household.

The following question was posed to emigrants from East Germany: time of moving to the FRG.