Political preferences and perception of parties on current political topics in Eastern and Western Germany. Topics: Party preference (Sunday question and pair comparison); attitude to selected political questions and assumed position of the parties on reduction in unemployment benefit for long-time unemployed, increase in ecology-tax and introduction of the German currency union. Demography: sex; citizenship; month of birth; year of birth; marital status; living together with a partner; employment; occupation; school completion; completed apprenticeship; religious affiliation; head of household; employment and occupation of head of household; social origins; number of persons in household; number of age classes of children in household; number of persons with own income in household; household income; possession of telephone. Also encoded was: weekday of interview; city size.