Regional Election Investigation (Rhineland-Palatinate)

Topics: Judgement on one´s own economic situation in comparison to earlier; expectations of future economic development (Katona questions); political knowledge; politician scale; sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU, FDP and NPD; knowledge about party affiliation of state politicians; attitude to the NPD; semantic differential for the FDP; characteristics of an ideal party; preferred coalition at state level; evaluation of state government; attitude to selected questions of state politics and a three-party system; associations with the term ´national´; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1965 and in the state parliament election 1963; voting intent in the next state parliament election; party preference (Sunday question and pair comparison); religiousness; memberships.

Scales: nationalism, understanding of democracy, antisemitism. Demography: possession of durable economic goods; head of household; marital status; employment; occupation; age (classified); school education; vocational training; sources of information; refugee status; sex. Interviewer rating: social class and willingness of respondent to cooperate; number of contact attempts; city size.