Federal Parliament Election 1965 (Follow-Up Survey, October 1965, II)

Topics: participation in election events; judgement on the election campaign; judgement on the conduct of the top politicians in the election campaign; memory of election slogans; satisfaction with the election result and change of one´s own voting decision, if the election result had been known before the election; personal behavior at the polls and information on a possible change in party voted for; events influencing one´s own voting decision at the last moment; sympathy scale for the politicians Erhard, Brandt, Barzel, Schmidt, Erler, Mende, Strauss, Schroeder, Wehner and Adenauer; feeling of political participation through voting; behavior at the polls and party sympathy; behavior at the polls of family and friends; importance of political problems; self-classification of extent to which informed politically and sources of political information; sources of information about the programs and intents of the parties; media usage and judgement on the objectivity of the political news and reports on radio, television, daily newspapers, picture magazines and magazines; importance of areas of life; judgement on one´s own economic situation and the economic situation of the FRG (Katona questions); membership in clubs or organizations and judgement on the party inclination of these organizations.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; religious denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational training; occupation; employment; composition of household; head of household; party preference; political discussion; self-assessment of social class; state; refugee status; possession of durable economic goods. Interviewer rating: social class of respondent; city size.