Cologne Election Study (Federal Republic, November 1961)

Topics: assessment of the current and future economic situation of respondent and of the future economic situation of the FRG (Katona questions); satisfaction with what one has personally achieved; frequency of political discussions; judgement on Adenauer and Brandt in the Berlin Crisis; preferred federal chancellor; sympathy scale for political personalities and for the SPD, CDU/CSU, FDP; most recent change in one´s own party evaluation; party preference; image of CDU or CSU, SPD and FDP; voting decision at earlier Federal Parliament elections and voting decision in the Federal Parliament election 1961; attitude to elections; perceived sources of election campaign financing for the three major parties; attitude to various financing alternatives; assessment of the danger of war; Scheuch Index.

Demography: head of household; marital status; occupation; employment; sex; social origins; age; school education; vocational training; household income; size of household; religious denomination; regional origins; sex; state. Interviewer rating: social class and willingness of respondent to cooperate; number of contact attempts; city size.