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Political Attitudes, Political Participation and Voting Behavior in Reunified Germany 1998

Falter, Jürgen W.; Gabriel, Oscar W.; Rattinger, Hans
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA3066 Data file Version 4.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.11968
Abstract: Political attitudes and political participation in reunified Germany. Cumulated data set from the data sets of four largely identical cross-section surveys at two different survey times in West and East Germany. Topics: judgement on current general economic situation as well as economic situation in the previous year; expected economic situation; knowledge about the importance of first vote and second vote; satisfaction with democracy; interest in politics; certainty of one´s own intent to participate in the election and one´s own voting decision (pre); type of voting as absentee ballot or ... more
Topics: Cultural and national identity | Social behaviour and attitudes | Media | Political behaviour and attitudes | Government, political systems and organisations | Elections | Economic conditions and indicators | Economic systems and development

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 08.1998 - 11.1998
Date(s) of Data Collection: 08.1998 - 11.1998, The individual survey times: pre-election West: 26. August 1998 to 26. September 1998; pre-election East: 30. August 1998 to 25. September 1998; by-election West: 08. October 1998 to 21. November 1998; by-election East: 13. October 1998 to 21. November 1998.
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE)
Universe: All German persons who at the time of survey were 16 years old or older as well as living in private households.
Number of Units: 3337
Sampling Procedure: • Probability: Multistage • Probability: Stratified; The ADM Master Sample is a stratified, three-step random selection and is based on election precincts of Federal Parliament elections. Two nets of the ADM sample system were used such that in Eastern Germany a double net was used which means that for an over-sample this was doubled. The targe ... more
Temporal Research Design: Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section
Analysis Unit: Individual
Mode of Data Collection: • Face-to-face interview; Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector: GFM GETAS (IPSOS), Hamburg
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Kind of Data: Numeric
Number of Variables: 297
Notes: The data set presented here consists of 4 partial surveys. They consist of pre-election and by-election investigations in the eastern and western parts of the Federal Republic. The questionnaire of the study was developed in cooperation with the preparation group German National Election Study (DNW) founded on an informal bases.

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Falter, Jürgen W. - Universität Mainz | Gabriel, Oscar W. - Universität Stuttgart | Rattinger, Hans - Universität Bamberg
Publication year: 2015
DOI: 10.4232/1.11968 | 10.4232/1.11461 | 10.4232/1.10842 | 10.4232/1.3066
Study number: ZA3066
Contributor, Institution, Role: Kratz, Paula - GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften - DataCurator
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Research data center: FDZ Wahlen bei GESIS

Versions

Current Version: 4.0.0, 2015-06-30, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.11968
Version history: ... more

Reference publications

Publications: Heindl, Markus: Auswirkungen individueller Parteipräferenzen auf die Bewertung der wirtschaftlichen Lage 1994-2002. Norderstedt: GRIN Verlag 2003
Study group:
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).

Politische Einstellungen, politische Partizipation und Wählerverhalten im vereinigten Deutschland | show all hits of the group
Political attitudes, political participation in united Germany. Multi-wave surveys with panel components and separate samples for East and West. Assessment of the current general economic situation, satisfaction with democracy, interest in politics.

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Falter, Jürgen W., Gabriel, Oscar W., & Rattinger, Hans (2015). Political Attitudes, Political Participation and Voting Behavior in Reunified Germany 1998. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA3066 Data file Version 4.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.11968.

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