Politbarometer 1988 (Cumulated Data Set)
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1762 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1762
Abstract: The Politbarometer has been conducted since 1977 on an almost monthly basis by the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen on behalf of the Second German Television (ZDF). Since 1990, this database has also been available for the new German states. The survey focuses on the opinions and attitudes of the voting-age population in the Federal Republic on current political issues, parties, politicians, and voting behavior. From 1990 to 1995 and from 1999 onward, the Politbarometer surveys were conducted separately both in the newly formed eastern and in the western German states (Politbarometer East and Politbaro ... more Content: February: Satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; party
preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure); behaviour at the
polls in the last Federal Parliament election; sympathy scale for the
political parties and selected politicians; satisfaction scale for the
government coalition and opposition; issue competence of the current ... more Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 01.1988 - 12.1988
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE), FRG without West Berlin
Universe: Persons eligible to vote in a Federal Parliament election.
August-December: Persons eligible to vote in a Federal Parliament election who live in a household with telephone mainlines.
Number of Units: 11184
Sampling Procedure: • Probability: Multistage
• Probability: Stratified;
Multi-stage stratified random sample (ADM mastersample) Temporal Research Design: Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section Analysis Unit: Individual Mode of Data Collection: • Face-to-face interview: Paper-and-pencil (PAPI)
• Telephone interview;
January-June:
Face-to-face interview: Paper-and-pencil (PAPI)
August-December:
Telephone interview Data Collector: MARPLAN, Offenbach
Analysis System(s): OSIRIS, SPSS
Kind of Data: Numeric | Text Number of Variables: 299
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Berger, Manfred - Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim | Gibowski, Wolfgang G. - Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim | Roth, Dieter - Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim | Schulte, Wolfgang - Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim
Publication year: 1989
DOI: 10.4232/1.1762
Study number: ZA1762
Contributor, Institution, Role: Langhans, Monika - GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften - DataCurator
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1762
Version history: ... more Study group: 
Politbarometer |
show all hits of the groupThe "Politbarometer" surveys are performed since 1977 at about monthly intervals by the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen (Institute for election research) for the ZDF (Second German TV network). Since 1990 it is also available for the newly formed German states.
They are intended to poll the opinions and attitudes of eligible Germans with regard to current ... more 
