Federal Parliament Election 1980 (Panel: 1st Wave 1978)

The contents of the three surveys (ZA Study Nos. 1323 - 1325) are each divided in two, in a block of questions identical at all survey times and a further block specific to the respective wave. Topics: 1.

The part of the survey identical to all investigations: judgement on one´s own economic situation and that of the Federal Republic; political interest; most important political event; party inclination and party identification; most important political task in the Federal Republic and most able party; satisfaction with the government coalition (SPD/FDP) and the opposition (CDU/CSU); party preference (Sunday question, first vote and second vote) as well as certainty of one´s voting decision; self-classification and classification of the parties on a conservative-modern continuum; strength of the representation of personal political concepts in the individual parties; satisfaction with the political system in the FRG; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1976; self-assessment of feeling of belonging to the group of Europeans, of Liberals, of Conservatives, of the Left, of Free Democrats, of Christian Democrats and of Social Democrats; approval of the FDP´s departure from the Federal Parliament and most important reasons for this; judgement on the freedom of decision for the FDP in the choice of coalition; party preference of spouse; size of municipality; characteristics of place of residence; date of interview; length of interview. 2.