Political Indicators (Panel 1974-1976)

Topics: General contentment with life; expected development of contentment with life and assessment of satisfaction some years ago; satisfaction with housing conditions and with income situation; satisfaction with provision with doctors and hospitals; work satisfaction; achievement orientation or good luck as reason for success in life; fatalism; attitude to the welfare state, nationalization, the free market economy and reform policies; most important tasks of the Federal Republic and the Federal Government; evaluation of the Federal Government; evaluation of a potential CDU government and the CDU/CSU in general; trust in the government and in the political representative; assessment of personal possibilities of political influence; political interest and political participation (scale); attitude to various forms of political protest against the government, beginning with demonstrations for environmental protection and extending to sympathy for the Baader-Meinhoff group; personal readiness to participate in political protests; assumed percentage distribution of attitudes of West Germans to the individual forms of political protest; contact with authorities; contacts with the police as well as with the courts and judgement on the treatment experienced there; self-assessment on the left-right continuum; party preference (ballot procedure and rank order procedure); behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament elections 1972 and 1976 (ballot procedure, first vote and second vote); time of voting decision; attitude to DKP and NPD (scales).

In the second survey the same topics were addressed. In most cases the same question formulation was also used. Demography: memberships; interest in the work of the organization; self-assessment of social class; religiousness; age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation; employment; household income; size of household; composition of household; head of household.