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GESIS Data Catalogue - Study ZA1920
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ZA1920: Election Study 1990 (Trend Investigation)
Bibliographic Citation
Citation
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim (1991): Election Study 1990 (Trend Investigation). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1920 Data file Version 1.0.0,
doi:10.4232/1.1920
Study No.
ZA1920
Title
Election Study 1990 (Trend Investigation)
Other Titles
Politbarometer (Project Title)
Current Version
1.0.0, 2010-4-13, doi:10.4232/1.1920 (Publication Year 1991)
Date of Collection
01.1990 - 12.1990
Principal Investigator/
Authoring Entity,
Institution
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim
Categories
Political Attitudes and Behavior
Topics
2.2 Migration
5.5 Religion and values
11.3 Conflict, security and peace
11.5 Mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion
11.6 Government, political systems and organisation
11.7 Elections
17.6 Economic systems and development
Study No.
1920
Title
Election Study 1990 (Trend Investigation)
Other Titles
Politbarometer (Project Title)
Current Version
1.0.0, 13.04.2010,
10.4232/1.1920
Date of Collection
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim
Abstract
Categories
Political Attitudes and Behavior
Topics
2.2 Migration
5.5 Religion and values
11.3 Conflict, security and peace
11.5 Mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion
11.6 Government, political systems and organisation
11.7 Elections
17.6 Economic systems and development
Content
Abstract
A cumulated data set of the Politbarometers for 1990. Judgement on parties and politicians. Attitude to current political questions. While the judgement on parties and politicians was replicated identically at all survey times, the formulation of current political questions varied in the individual survey months. Topics: most important problems in the Federal Republic; satisfaction with democracy; party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure); party inclination and party identification; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; time of voting decision; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; preference for one-party government or coalition preference; most important politicians; sympathy scale for the parties and top politicians; satisfaction with the achievement of the Federal Government and the achievements of the opposition parties; preference for federal chancellor; preferred top candidate of the SPD; satisfaction with the election result; expected chances for and point in time of a reunification; attitude to unification of the two German nations and judgement on unification progress; attitude to a public opinion poll in connection with unification; attitude to the visit by Modrow in the Federal Republic; attitude to economic aid for the GDR dependent on reforms; perceived intervention of FRG politicians in GDR reforms; understanding for emigrants from the GDR; expected disadvantages in jobs and housing through emigrants; residential status; judgement on privileges for emigrants and the speed of reform in the GDR; expected advantages and disadvantages for the West German population through unification; judgement on point in time and exchange rate of the DM {German Mark} at introduction in the GDR; approval of financial aid for the GDR even with tax increases in the FRG; support for the unification policies of Kohl or Lafontaine; preference for capital city and preferred seat of government and Federal Parliament; attitude to the Oder-Neisse border and to the GDR´s becoming a part of the FRG through the article in the constitution; assessment of the worth of improving the constitution and of the need for a new constitution in a united Germany; job worries; judgement on democracy in the Federal Republic and attitude to socialism; attitude to a candidacy of the PDS for the Federal Parliament and electibility of the PDS; attitude to the date for the first all-German election on 2 December and preference for a postponement of the election date; self-assessment of extent to which informed about the unification contract; issue relevance and issue competence of the parties; preference for Lafontaine or Engholm as SPD chairman; influence of opinion polls on one´s own voting decision and interest in political surveys; most important election campaign topic; attitude to the Americans´ sending troops to the Gulf region; attitude to a military intervention in the Gulf region and to sending German troops; personal retrospect on the last year and prospect for the coming year; religiousness.
Abstract
A cumulated data set of the Politbarometers for 1990. Judgement on parties and politicians. Attitude to current political questions. While the judgement on parties and politicians was replicated identically at all survey times, the formulation of current political questions varied in the individual survey months. Topics: most important problems in the Federal Republic; satisfaction with democracy; party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure); party inclination and party identification; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; time of voting decision; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; preference for one-party government or coalition preference; most important politicians; sympathy scale for the parties and top politicians; satisfaction with the achievement of the Federal Government and the achievements of the opposition parties; preference for federal chancellor; preferred top candidate of the SPD; satisfaction with the election result; expected chances for and point in time of a reunification; attitude to unification of the two German nations and judgement on unification progress; attitude to a public opinion poll in connection with unification; attitude to the visit by Modrow in the Federal Republic; attitude to economic aid for the GDR dependent on reforms; perceived intervention of FRG politicians in GDR reforms; understanding for emigrants from the GDR; expected disadvantages in jobs and housing through emigrants; residential status; judgement on privileges for emigrants and the speed of reform in the GDR; expected advantages and disadvantages for the West German population through unification; judgement on point in time and exchange rate of the DM {German Mark} at introduction in the GDR; approval of financial aid for the GDR even with tax increases in the FRG; support for the unification policies of Kohl or Lafontaine; preference for capital city and preferred seat of government and Federal Parliament; attitude to the Oder-Neisse border and to the GDR´s becoming a part of the FRG through the article in the constitution; assessment of the worth of improving the constitution and of the need for a new constitution in a united Germany; job worries; judgement on democracy in the Federal Republic and attitude to socialism; attitude to a candidacy of the PDS for the Federal Parliament and electibility of the PDS; attitude to the date for the first all-German election on 2 December and preference for a postponement of the election date; self-assessment of extent to which informed about the unification contract; issue relevance and issue competence of the parties; preference for Lafontaine or Engholm as SPD chairman; influence of opinion polls on one´s own voting decision and interest in political surveys; most important election campaign topic; attitude to the Americans´ sending troops to the Gulf region; attitude to a military intervention in the Gulf region and to sending German troops; personal retrospect on the last year and prospect for the coming year; religiousness.
Methodology
Geographic Coverage
Universe
Eligible voters living in private households with a telephone
Selection Method
Random selection. Sample according to the RLD procedure (randomize last digit)
Mode of Data Collection
Telephone interview with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim
Date of Collection
01.1990 - 12.1990
Geographic Coverage
Germany (DE), FRG incl. West Berlin
Universe
Eligible voters living in private households with a telephone
Selection Method
Random selection. Sample according to the RLD procedure (randomize last digit)
Mode of Data Collection
Telephone interview with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Mannheim
Date of Collection
01.1990 - 12.1990
Dataset
Number of Units: 11169
Number of Variables: 284
Data Type: Einfachlochung
Analysis System(s): OSIRIS, SPSS
Availability
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.
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Data and
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ZA1920.por
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ZA1920.dta
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ZA1920_fb.pdf
(Questionnaire)
8 MBytes
ZA1920_cdb.pdf
(Codebook)
326 KBytes
Study Description in DDI format DDI-Codebook (2.5)
Study Description in DDI format DDI-Lifecycle (3.1)
Study Description in DDI format DDI-Lifecycle (3.2)
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Errata in current version
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Version 1.0.0
(current version)
2010-4-13 Version number created automatically (implementation of a uniform versioning policy)
doi:10.4232/1.1920
(Publication Year 1991)
Notes
The Politbarometers present a monthly trend survey, commissioned by the second German television (ZDF). The Politbarometers for 1990 are archived under ZA Study Nos. 1921 to 1931 and in cumulation under ZA Study No. 1920. Further Politbarometers are archived under ZA Study Nos. 1053 to 1063, 1277 to 1281, 1469 to 1479, 1677, 1687 to 1696 as well as 1768 to 1779.
Relevant full texts
from
SSOAR
(automatically assigned)
Groups
Politbarometer
The ´Politbarometer´ surveys are performed since 1977 at about monthly intervals by the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen (Institute for election research) for the ZDF (Second German TV network). Since 1990 it is also available for the newly formed German states. They are intended to poll the opinions and attitudes of eligible Germans with regard to current events and issues as well as to political parties and individual politicians.
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ZA1053
Election Study 1980 (Data Pool)
ZA1536
Election Study 1987 (Trend Investigation)
ZA1762
Politbarometer 1988 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA1779
Politbarometer 1989 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA1899
Politbarometer 1987 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA1901
Politbarometer 1985 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA1920
Election Study 1990 (Trend Investigation)
ZA1987
Election Study 1990 (Politbarometer East)
ZA2102
Politbarometer West 1991 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2114
Politbarometer East 1991 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2160
Politbarometer 1977 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2171
Politbarometer 1978 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2182
Politbarometer 1979 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2194
Politbarometer 1981 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2201
Politbarometer 1982 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2209
Politbarometer 1983 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2220
Politbarometer 1984 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2275
Politbarometer West 1992 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2287
Politbarometer East 1992 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2378
Politbarometer West 1993 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2390
Politbarometer East 1993 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2391
Partial Cumulation of Politbarometers 1977-2017
ZA2546
Election Study 1994: Politbarometer West 1994 (Trend Investigations)
ZA2559
Election Study 1994: Politbarometer East 1994 (Trend Investigations)
ZA2765
Politbarometer West 1995 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2777
Politbarometer East 1995 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA2894
Politbarometer 1996 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA3045
Politbarometer 1997 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA3160
Election Study 1998 (Politbarometer)
ZA3261
Politbarometer West 1999 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA3262
Politbarometer East 1999 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA3425
Politbarometer West 2000 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA3426
Politbarometer East 2000 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA3554
Politbarometer Western Germany 2001 (Accumulated Dataset)
ZA3555
Politbarometer Eastern Germany 2001 (Accumulated Dataset)
ZA3849
Politbarometer West 2002 (Cumulated Dataset)
ZA3850
Politbarometer East 2002 (Cumulated Dataset)
ZA3851
Politbarometer Short Inquiry 2002 (Accumulated Dataset)
ZA4003
Politbarometer East 2003 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA4004
Politbarometer West 2003 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA4223
Politbarometer East 2004 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA4224
Politbarometer West 2004 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA4258
Politbarometer East 2005 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA4259
Politbarometer West 2005 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA4550
Politbarometer East 2006 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA4551
Politbarometer West 2006 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA4802
Politbarometer East 2007 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA4803
Politbarometer West 2007 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5100
Politbarometer - Overall Cumulation
ZA5200
Politbarometer East 2008 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5201
Politbarometer West 2008 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5431
Politbarometer Ost 2009 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5432
Politbarometer West 2009 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5556
Politbarometer East 2010 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5557
Politbarometer West 2010 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5632
Politbarometer East 2011 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5633
Politbarometer West 2011 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5641
Politbarometer 2012 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5677
Politbarometer 2013 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5999
Politbarometer 2014 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA6700
Politbarometer 2015 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA6888
Politbarometer 2016 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA6988
Politbarometer 2017 (Cumulated Data Set)
ZA7492
Politbarometer 2018 (Cumulated Data Set)
German Federal Election Studies
The data base consists of one-off surveys, panel surveys, and cumulated surveys. It comprises representative polls for all German federal elections since 1949.
Further studies are listed under
GLES (German Longitudinal Election Study)
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ZA0055
Cologne Election Study (Federal Republic, July 1961)
ZA0056
Cologne Election Study (Federal Republic, September 1961)
ZA0057
Cologne Election Study (Federal Republic, November 1961)
ZA0145
Federal Study 1953
ZA0314
Federal Parliament Election 1965 (Follow-up, October 1965, I)
ZA0426
Federal Parliament Election 1969 (Pre-Election Investigation, September 1969 und Follow-Up Survey, October - November 1969)
ZA0525
Politics in the Federal Republic (August 1969)
ZA0556
Federal Parliament Election 1965 (Initial Investigation, September 1965)
ZA0631
Federal Parliament Election 1972 (1st Preliminary Investigation, October 1972)
ZA0632
Federal Parliament Election 1972 (2nd Initial Investigation, October 1972)
ZA0633
Federal Parliament Election 1972 (1st and 2nd Follow-Up Survey)
ZA0635
Election Study 1972 (Panel: Preliminary Investigations, September - October 1972, October - November 1972; Follow-Up Survey, December 1972)
ZA0665
Federal Parliament Election 1972 (Initial Investigation, September 1972)
ZA0788
The political mood after the Federal Parliament election 1969
ZA0789
Resonance of the Population to the Election Campaign and the Result of the Federal Parliament Election 1969
ZA0823
Election Study 1976 (Panel: Initial Investigation, May - June 1976, August - September 1976; Follow-Up Survey, October - November 1976)
ZA0839
Federal Parliament Election 1972 (Panel: 1st Wave, April - May 1971)
ZA0840
Federal Parliament Election 1972 (Panel: 2nd Wave, October 1971 - January 1972)
ZA0841
Federal Parliament Election 1972 (Panel: 3rd Wave, September - November 1972)
ZA0950
Aggregate Data for the Constituencies of the Federal Republic (1949-1969) in the Organization of the Federal Parliament Election 1965
ZA0951
Aggregate Data for the Constituencies of the Federal Republic (1972-1976) in the Organization of the Federal Parliament Election 1972
ZA1053
Election Study 1980 (Data Pool)
ZA1133
Federal Parliament Election 1976 (Panel: 1st Wave, October 1973)
ZA1134
Federal Parliament Election 1976 (Panel: 2nd Wave, October 1975)
ZA1135
Federal Parliament Election 1976 (Panel: 3rd Wave, August 1976)
ZA1275
Election Study 1983 (Representative Federal Surveys)
ZA1276
Election Study 1983 (Panel)
ZA1313
Topic Boom in the Federal Parliament Election Campaign 1980
ZA1323
Federal Parliament Election 1980 (Panel: 1st Wave 1978)
ZA1324
Federal Parliament Election 1980 (Panel: 2nd Wave 1979)
ZA1325
Federal Parliament Election 1980 (Panel: 3rd Wave 1980)
ZA1397
Kiel Election Study 1976
ZA1398
Kiel Election Study 1980
ZA1399
Kiel Election Study 1983
ZA1536
Election Study 1987 (Trend Investigation)
ZA1537
Election Study 1987 (Panel Study)
ZA1681
Kiel Election Study 1987
ZA1919
Election Study 1990 (Panel)
ZA1920
Election Study 1990 (Trend Investigation)
ZA1949
Federal Parliament Election 1984 (Panel 1980-1984)
ZA1957
Federal Parliament Election 1987 (By-Election Investigation)
ZA1959
Kiel Election Study 1990
ZA1987
Election Study 1990 (Politbarometer East)
ZA2136
Before the Federal Parliament Election 1990
ZA2297
Federal Parliament Election 1990 (Old and New States)
ZA2324
Election Study 1949
ZA2361
The Situation after the Federal Parliament Election 1949
ZA2546
Election Study 1994: Politbarometer West 1994 (Trend Investigations)
ZA2559
Election Study 1994: Politbarometer East 1994 (Trend Investigations)
ZA2599
Pre-Election Study 1994 (Trend Investigations)
ZA2600
Pre-Election Study on the Federal Parliament Election 1994: Policy and Party Preference
ZA2601
Post-Election Study on the Federal Parliament Election 1994
ZA2799
Mass-Media and Voters (Federal Parliament Election Study 1994)
ZA2960
Before the Federal Parliament Election 1990 in the New States
ZA3063
Forsa-Bus 1994
ZA3065
Political Attitudes, Political Participation and Voting Behavior in Reunified Germany 1994
ZA3066
Political Attitudes, Political Participation and Voting Behavior in Reunified Germany 1998
ZA3073
German National Election Study - Post-Election Study 1998 German CSES Study
ZA3160
Election Study 1998 (Politbarometer)
ZA3161
Quick Survey on the Federal Parliament Election 1998
ZA3162
Forsa-Bus 1998
ZA3272
Election Study 1957
ZA3849
Politbarometer West 2002 (Cumulated Dataset)
ZA3850
Politbarometer East 2002 (Cumulated Dataset)
ZA3852
Quick Survey on the Federal Parliament Election 2002 (West Germany)
ZA3853
Quick Survey on the Federal Parliament Election 2002 (East Germany)
ZA3861
Political Attitudes, Political Participation and Voting Behavior in Reunified Germany 2002
ZA3874
After the Parliamentary Elections 2002: Is Germany taking off?
ZA3875
After the Parliamentary Election 2002: The Government Programm
ZA3909
Forsa Bus 2002
ZA4072
Pre-election survey on the Federal Parliament Election 1998
ZA4216
German CSES Study for the National Election Study 2002 - Post-Election telephone survey
ZA4217
German CSES Study for the National Election Study 2002 - ´Drop off´ Survey and Post-Election telephone survey
ZA4225
German Candidate Study for the Federal Parliament Election 2002 (German Candidate Study 2002)
ZA4258
Politbarometer East 2005 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA4259
Politbarometer West 2005 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA4301
Political Attitudes, Political Participation and Voting Behavior in Reunified Germany (Panel 1994-2002)
ZA4332
Federal Parliament Election 2005 - Citizens and Parties in a Changed World
ZA4343
Forsa-Bus 2005
ZA4397
Quick Survey on the Federal Parliament Election 2005
ZA4519
Post-election Surveys on Federal Parliament Election 1949-2005 (Cumulated Variable Selection)
ZA4559
Post-Election Survey on the National Parliament Election 2005 - German CSES Study (Pilot)
ZA4662
Political Attitudes, Political Participation and Voting Behavior in Reunified Germany (Panel 1998-2005)
ZA4991
Federal Parliament Election 2005 Campaign Dynamics - Pre- and Post-Election Study
ZA4997
Federal Parliament Election 2005 Campaign Dynamics - Television News Analysis
ZA5049
Forsa-Bus 2009
ZA5384
Quick Survey on the Federal Parliament Election 2009
ZA5431
Politbarometer Ost 2009 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5432
Politbarometer West 2009 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5448
ARD-DeutschlandTrend 2009
ZA5677
Politbarometer 2013 (Cumulated Data Set, incl. Flash)
ZA5915
ARD-DeutschlandTrend 2013
ZA5927
Forsa-Bus 2013
ZA5937
Quick Survey on the Federal Parliament Election 2013
ZA5973
German Bundestag Elections 2013: Twitter Usage by Electoral Candidates
ZA6920
Opinion Poll Voting Intentions Federal Election 2017
ZA6926
Social Media Monitoring for the German federal election 2017
ZA6951
Quick Survey on the Federal Parliament Election 2017
ZA6970
Federal Election 2013 - Post-election CATI
ZA6971
Federal Election 2013 - Post-election Online