Starting Situation on the State Parliament Election in North Rhine-Westphalia 1962

Topics: Political interest; judgement on Federal Chancellor Adenauer and Erhard as well as the CDU/FDP coalition in Bonn; expectations of the FDP as a party and as member of the government; judgement on the result of the last Federal Parliament election; degree of familiarity of the FDP ministers and the foreign minister; judgement on the Berlin policies and foreign policy; attitude to a Ministry of Education at federal level and religious denomination schools; preferred government coalition in North Rhine-Westphalia; most important problems of the state; degree of familiarity of state politicians; judgement on the conduct of the parties in the election campaign for Federal Parliament; memory of advertising posters; evaluation of advertising texts; media usage; attitude to change of party preference; party preference at federal and state level; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; city size and administrative district.

Demography: sex; age (classified); marital status; religious denomination; school education; self-assessment of social class; employment; occupation; size of household; refugee; income (classified); household income (classified); interest in politics; number of children; possession of durable economic goods . Interviewer rating: opinion leadership or ease of influencing respondent; social class of respondent.