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[fsd_no] FSD study number

[fsd_vr] FSD edition number

[fsd_pro] FSD processing level

[fsd_id] FSD case id

[q1] Sex of the respondent

[q2_1] Age of the respondent

[q2_2] Age groups

[q3] The actual election day for the second round of the presidential elections is 6th February. Have you already voted in advance in the second round?

[q4] How certain are you about going to vote in the second round of the elections?

[q5] For which candidate would you vote if the elections were held right now?

[q6] How certain are you that you would really vote the candidate you now support in the second round?

[q7] Did you vote in the first round of the presidential elections?

[q8] For whom did you vote in the first round of the presidential elections?

[q9_1] What concept or name do you use of the various polls measuring the support of presidential candidates and parties?: Opinion poll

[q9_2] What concept or name do you use of the various polls measuring the support of presidential candidates and parties?: Survey on political support

[q9_3] What concept or name would you use of the various polls measuring the support of presidential candidates and parties?: Gallup-survey

[q9_4] What concept or name would you use of the various polls measuring the support of presidential candidates and parties?: Something else

[q9_5] What concept or name would you use of the various polls measuring the support of presidential candidates and parties?: Cannot say

[q10] When did you vote in the first round of the elections?

[q11] At what stage did you make your final decision about which candidate to vote for in the first round of the elections?

[q12] How often do you remember having seen or heard estimates of the election support of the various candidates on TV, in the newspapers or on the radio?

[q13] How often did you discuss the results of the gallup-surveys published before the first round of the elections among your family, at the work place, with friends or other people?

[q14] If you think about the voters' choice of candidate in the first round of the elections, how much do you think the gallup-surveys affected their choice?

[q15] How did they affect your own choice of candidate?

[q16] The Gallup-surveys strengthened my view that my candidate had good chances to get elected to the second round of the elections.

[q17] I voted for my candidate expressly because the Gallup-surveys did'nt promise him/her success in the elections.

[q18] The success of my candidate in the Gallup-surveys was an incentive for me to go to vote.

[q19] I explicitly wanted to vote for a candidate who had good chances to win in the second round.

[q20] With my vote, I tried to stop a certain candidate from getting elected to the second round of the elections.

[q21] The candidate I voted for was not my first choice but I voted for a candidate who I thought had good chances to get elected to the second round of the elections.

[q22] Do you recall any specific Gallup-surveys published before the first round of the elections that would have had an effect on your own voting behaviour?

[q24] In general, how reliable did you find the Gallup-surveys published before the first round of the elections?

[q25] Let us imagine that no Gallup-surveys measuring the support of the candidates would have been published during the week preceding the first round election day, which candidate would you most likely have voted for then?

[q26] Respondent's basic education

[q27] Respondent's vocational education

[q28] Respondent's economic activity and occupational group

[q29] Province of residence

[q30] Type of municipality

[q31] If parliamentary elections were held right now, for which party or group would you vote