Political Attitudes, Political Participation and Voting Behavior in Reunified Germany 2002
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA3861 Data file Version 3.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.11967
Abstract: Political attitudes and political participation in reunified Germany.
Cumulated data set from the data sets of the 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 ballo ... more Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 08.2002 - 02.2003
Date(s) of Data Collection: 08.2002 - 02.2003, The individual survey times:
pre-election: 12. August to 21. September 2002;
post-election: 1. October to 8. November 2002;
phone follow-up survey: 29. January to 12. February 2003
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE)
Universe: All German persons, whose residence is in the Federal Republic of Germany and at the time of survey had completed at least the 16 year of life as well as living in private households.
Number of Units: 3263
Sampling Procedure: • Probability: Multistage
• Probability: Stratified;
The ADM Master Sample is a stratified, three-stage random selection and
is based on the election precincts of Federal Parliament elections.
Two nets of the ADM sample system were applied whereby a double net was used
in Eastern Germany, which means that this was doubled for an over-sample.
Th ... 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: INRA Deutschland, Moelln
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 334
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: 10.4232/1.11967 | 10.4232/1.11462 | 10.4232/1.3861
Study number: ZA3861
Contributor, Institution, Role: Kratz, Sophia - GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften - DataCurator
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Versions
Current Version: 3.0.0, 2015-07-31, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.11967
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 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).Politische Einstellungen, politische Partizipation und Wählerverhalten im vereinigten Deutschland |
show all hits of the groupPolitical 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.GESIS Community Data |
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