German National Election Study - Post-Election Study 1998 German CSES Study

Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Mannheim; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin; Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung, Universität zu Köln; ZUMA, Mannheim

doi:10.4232/1.11566

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ZA3073: German National Election Study - Post-Election Study 1998 German CSES Study

10.4232/1.11566

Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Mannheim

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin

Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung, Universität zu Köln

ZUMA, Mannheim

Political Attitudes and Behavior

11.5 Mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion

11.6 Government, political systems and organisation

11.7 Elections

Citation	Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Mannheim; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin; Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung, Universität zu Köln; ZUMA, Mannheim (2013): German National Election Study - Post-Election Study 1998 German CSES Study. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA3073 Data file Version 2.0.0, doi:10.4232/1.11566
Study No.	ZA3073
Title	German National Election Study - Post-Election Study 1998 German CSES Study
Current Version	2.0.0, 2013-2-27, doi:10.4232/1.11566
Date of Collection	09.1998 - 10.1998
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution	Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Mannheim Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung, Universität zu Köln ZUMA, Mannheim
Categories	Political Attitudes and Behavior
Topics	11.5 Mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion 11.6 Government, political systems and organisation 11.7 Elections

Abstract

Judgement on parties and politicians after the Federal Parliament election. Behavior at the polls and political knowledge. Topics: satisfaction with democracy; correctly conducting the Federal Parliament election; party identification (rank order); necessity of parties; memory of direct candidates in the constituency and knowledge of names; sympathy scale for parties and leading politicians; assessment of the economic situation of Germany and perceived change in the course of the last few years; populism of members of Parliament and parties; contact with a member of Parliament; significance of the governing party for the respondent; perceived political effectiveness through one´s own voting decision; expressing personal political opinion taboo; self-assessment and assessment of parties on a left-right continuum; political knowledge test (name of foreign minister, number of states in Germany and member countries in the EU); most important topics in the media in the last few days; most able party to solve current problems in the Federal Republic; personal change in party voted for; interest in politics; expected development of personal standard of living; most important election campaign topics for the respondent and assignment of election campaign topics to the parties; issue-competence of different governments and coalitions; comparison of personal character traits and political abilities of the two candidates for chancellor Kohl and Schroeder (split); preference for representative or direct democracy (split: exchange of sequence of the permitted response alternatives); personal election participation at the last Federal Parliament election and behavior at the polls regarding first vote and second vote; current party preference (Sunday question). Demography: year of birth; sex; school degree; marital status; living together with a partner; union membership; union member in household; extent of employment; occupation; size of household and number of adult persons in household; employment and occupational position of partner as well as head of household; household income; religiousness; religious denomination; characterization of place of residence; state; municipality code; city name; city size; survey date.

Abstract

Methodology

Geographic Coverage

Universe

German-speaking persons in private households eligible to vote in the Federal Parliament election

Selection Method

Multi-stage random sample

Mode of Data Collection

Telephone interview with standardized questionnaire

Data Collector

FORSA, Berlin and Dortmund

Date of Collection

09.1998 - 10.1998

Geographic Coverage	Germany (DE)
Universe	German-speaking persons in private households eligible to vote in the Federal Parliament election
Selection Method	Multi-stage random sample
Mode of Data Collection	Telephone interview with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector	FORSA, Berlin and Dortmund
Date of Collection	09.1998 - 10.1998

Dataset

Number of Units: 2019

Number of Variables: 269

Data Type: -

Analysis System(s): OSIRIS, SPSS

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Version 2.0.0
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2013-2-27 split_b and repres added (question 112) doi:10.4232/1.11566

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2010-4-13 Version number created automatically (implementation of a uniform versioning policy) doi:10.4232/1.3073 (Publication Year 1998)

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Groups

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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- 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
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- 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

ZA3073: German National Election Study - Post-Election Study 1998 German CSES Study