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Election Study 1994: Politbarometer East 1994 (Trend Investigations)

Berger, Manfred; Jung, Matthias; Roth, Dieter
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA2559 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.2559
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: The following topics were surveyed again identically at every time of survey: most important political problems in the Federal Republic; party preference (Sunday question, rank order procedure); party inclination and party identification; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; sympathy scale for the parties and selected poli ... more
Topics: Social behaviour and attitudes | Crime and law enforcement | Political behaviour and attitudes | Government, political systems and organisations | Elections | Economic conditions and indicators | Economic policy, public expenditure and revenue | Economic systems and development | Information technology

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 01.1994 - 12.1994
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: Eligible voters living in private households with telephone
Number of Units: 12849
Sampling Procedure: • Probability: Systematic random; Sample according to the RLD procedure (randomize last digit)
Temporal Research Design: Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section
Analysis Unit: Individual
Mode of Data Collection: • Telephone interview; Telephone survey with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector: Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim
Analysis System(s): OSIRIS, SPSS
Kind of Data: Numeric | Text
Number of Variables: 329
Notes: The monthly surveys have the extent of about 1000 respondents. In July no survey was conducted. Instead in October there were two so-called quick surveys shortly before as well as after the Federal Parliament election.

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Berger, Manfred - Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim | Jung, Matthias - Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim | Roth, Dieter - Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim | Gibowski, Wolfgang G. - Bundespresseamt Bonn | Kaase, Max - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin | Klingemann, Hans-Dieter - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin | Küchler, Manfred - Hunter College New York | P ... more
Publication year: 1995
DOI: 10.4232/1.2559
Study number: ZA2559
Contributor, Institution, Role: Langhans, Monika - GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften - DataCurator
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Research data center: FDZ Wahlen bei GESIS

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.2559
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The "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

Deutsche Bundestagswahlstudien | show all hits of the group
The 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).

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