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Political attitudes as well as judgement on parties and politicians in
the Federal Republic.

Topics: most important problems of the Federal Republic; judgement on
one´s own and the general economic situation; issue relevance;
issue-ability of the parties; attitude to selected political topics
such as e.g. nuclear energy, the death penalty for terrorists,
directing the economy, abortion and restriction of civil rights;
postmaterialism index; knowledge about the time of the next Federal
Parliament election; importance of result of Federal Parliament
election for oneself; party preference (ballot procedure); preference
for federal chancellor; not desired federal chancellor; behavior at the
polls with other candidates for chancellor than Schmidt and Strauss;
trust in the leadership role of the USA; fear of war (scale); preferred
chancellor given a hypothetical international crisis situation;
attitude to founding of the Greens; attitude to voting for the Greens
in a Federal Parliament election; assumed taking seats in Parliament by
the Greens as well as a tax party; self-classification on a left-right
continuum; sympathy scale for the political parties and leading
politicians in the Federal Republic; judgement on social-liberal
coalition and opposition in Bonn; party inclination; party
identification; satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic;
attitude to a grand coalition; self-assessment of social class; trust
in the action of the Federal Government; Federal Government in the
service of the public interest or special interest groups; the right to
political opposition and personal understanding of democracy (scale);
judgement on the relationship between taxpayer and tax office;
judgement on tax equity and honesty in paying taxes; trust in the the
judiciary; assumed equality of all citizens before the law; personal
court experiences and judgement on the court decision; association with
policemen and prestige of the police; attitude to authorities and
conduct in contact with authorities (scale); judgement on the
possibilities of political participation; complexity of political
events; assessment of the relation between voter and politician or the
parties; personal political interest and activities; importance of
participation in politics; attitude to selected protest measures and
judgement on the effectiveness of such measures; personal participation
and intent to participate in protest measures; assumed winner of the
next Federal Parliament election; frequency of conversations about
politics and the Federal Parliament election.

Demography: ZUMA standard demography: age; sex; marital status;
religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school
education; vocational training; occupational position; employment; area
of business of company; company size; household income; sources of
income; composition of household; residential status; interest in
politics; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament
election; regional origins; memberships.

Interviewer rating: type of city; degree of urbanization; presence of
others during the interview; interventions by other persons in the
interview; willingness to cooperate and reliability of respondent; time
of interview.

Also encoded was: availablilty of respondent on various weekdays;
interviewer identity; length of interview; day of interview.