German election study, July 1961
By: principal investigators, Gerhard Baumert, Erwin K. Scheuch, and Rudolf Wildenmann
Series: German election study series; ICPSR -- 7099; ICPSR (Series) -- 7099
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Elections; Public opinion; Voting; Politics and government
Description: The July pre-election study examined in detail the respondents' interest in political information. This study also investigated the respondents' perceptions of the ability of the SPD and CDU/CSU to deal with a set of issues currently facing the Federal Republic such as: German reunification, foreign relations with the East and West, economic and education policy, and other foreign and domestic issues. The survey also included scalometers which were used in evaluating the major political figures of 1961 and the three major political parties. Other questions dealt with the perceived partisan leanings of various social groups and the respondents' anticipated voting behavior in the 1961 election and expectations about the election outcome. Further questions measured the respondents' long-term voting histories. Interviews were conducted with a national area probability sample of citizens of the Federal Republic, including West Berlin, who were over fifteen years of age. The interviews were conducted in July, 1961, prior to the federal election.
Notes: The German Election Study series is made available for analysis as a joint project of the ICPSR, the Zentralarchiv fuer empirische Socialforschung, University of Cologne, and the Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, Mannheim. A German language Z.A.R. codebook containing a study description, technical information, and variable documentation for a card-image dataset is available from the Zentralarchiv fuer empirische Socialforschung, University of Cologne, D-5000 Cologne 41, Bachemer Strasse 40, West Germany.

ICPSR data class: Class I.

Data collected: July 1961.

Federal Republic of Germany.

The 1961 German election studies / principal investigators, Gerhard Baumert, Erwin K. Scheuch, Rudolf Wildenmann. ICPR ed. Ann Arbor : ICPSR, 1975.

1,679 respondents weighted to 1,696.1; 176 variables.