Federal Survey 1978 (2nd Wave, May 1978)

Topics: political interest; judgement on economic situation in the Federal Republic; party preference (ballot procedure); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; trust in selected institutions such as chancellor, government, Federal Parliament, judiciary, police etc.; sympathy scale and assessment of political capability of the parties as well as of the most important federal politicians; assessment of reliability of political sources of information; behavior at the polls given a nation-wide separation of CDU and CSU; judgement on economic situation.

The following questions were also posed in Lower Saxony: judgement on the economic situation of Lower Saxony; most important political tasks in the state and issue ability of parties and politicians; knowledge about the Green Lists and the political matter of concern of this party; attitude to the Greens gaining seats in the Lower Saxony state parliament; classification of state parties and politicians on a left-right continuum; self-classification on a left-right continuum; assessment of the position of the Lower Saxony CDU in comparison to the federal CDU; preference for prime minister; party preference for the next state parliament election; judgement on the job of the CDU/FDP coalition up to now in Lower Saxony as well as attitude to a possible model character of this coalition at federal level.