Before the European Election 1984

Topics: right people as leaders of the Federal Republic; party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election in March 1983; sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU, CSU, FDP and the Greens as well as for the politicians Genscher, Kohl, Strauss and Vogel; satisfaction with the CDU/CSU/FDP government in Bonn; satisfaction with the SPD and the Greens in opposition; extent to which informed and interest in the European Election; sources of information about the European Election; personal intent to participate in the election; voting intent; election participation and behavior at the polls in the European Election 1979; preferred form of political unification in Europe; assessment of future development of the European Parliament; advantages or disadvantages of West German membership in the EC; assessment of personally perceived importance of parliament decisions at municipal, state, federal and European level; satisfaction scale for the European Parliament; progress in European unification; solution of problems such as unemployment, environmental protection, agricultural over-production and foreign aid at national level; general attitude to the European Parliament; membership in a trade union; religiousness; party inclination; social status of residential area.

Demography: household size and number of adult persons in household; sex; age; marital status; school degree; employment; occupation; head of household; employment and occupation of head of household; union membership; religious denomination; religiousness; party inclination; party identification; characterization of residential area based on social status of neighbors. Also encoded was: city code.