Election Study 1990 (Politbarometer East)
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1987 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1987
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: Most important problems of the GDR; satisfaction with
democracy; party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure);
behavior at the polls in the last election; preferred party for the
election to an all-German parliament; sympathy scale for parties and
politicians; satisfaction with achievements of the GDR government, the
Federal Governme ... more Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 03.1990 - 12.1990
Geographic coverage: Berlin (DE-BE), with East Berlin | Brandenburg (DE-BB) | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (DE-MV) | Saxony (DE-SN) | Saxony-Anhalt (DE-ST) | Thuringia (DE-TH)
Universe: Households
Number of Units: 6809
Sampling Procedure: • Probability: Multistage
• Probability: Stratified;
Sample of 149 points, selected at the municipal level, stratified
according to 15 areas and within the areas according to city size.
Sample of households in the random route procedure, sample of the
target persons in the household according to a key based on birthday. Temporal Research Design: Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section Analysis Unit: Individual Mode of Data Collection: • Face-to-face interview: Paper-and-pencil (PAPI);
Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector: Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim;
EMNID, Bielefeld;
USUMA, Ost-Berlin
Analysis System(s): OSIRIS, SPSS
Kind of Data: Numeric | Text Number of Variables: 265
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: - Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim | - EMNID, Bielefeld | - USUMA, Ost-Berlin
Publication year: 1991
DOI: 10.4232/1.1987
Study number: ZA1987
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/10.4232/1.1987
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 ... moreDeutsche Bundestagswahlstudien |
show all hits of the groupThe data base consists of one-off surveys, panel surveys, and cumulated surveys. It comprises representative polls for all German federal elections since 1949.
Further studies are listed under GLES (German Longitudinal Election Study). 
