Federal Parliament Election 1972 (Initial Investigation, September 1972)

Topics: attitude to Federal Chancellor Brandt; suspected relationship between a possible vote of no confidence against Brandt and a deterioration of election chances for the government in a new election; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1969 and party preference; preferred government coalition; preferred candidate for chancellor and foreign minister; preference for a party or its youth organizations; influence of spouse in voting decision; media usage; sources of political information and self-assessment of extent to which informed politically; sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU/CSU and FDP; knowledge of politicians and their party affiliation; image of Brandt, Barzel, Strauss and Scheel (semantic differential as well as sympathy scale) and image of the parties; judgement on the achievements of the Brandt-Scheel government; expected influence of the FDP on the government; preference for reform policies or price stability; judgement on the policies and the resignation of Minister of Trade and Commerce, Schiller; issue competence of the parties and the politicians Schmidt and Strauss; judgement on the influence of interest groups in the FRG; assessment of the responsibility of interest groups for the price increase; general political attitudes; attitude to tax increases and to the term ´socialism´; judgement on the ´Quick affair´ and the assumed role of the government in this case; religiousness; housing situation.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation; household income; state; refugee status. Interviewer rating: length of interview; city code. Also encoded was: district code.