German Internet Panel, Wave 54 (July 2021)

The German Internet Panel (GIP) is an infrastructure project. The GIP serves to collect data about individual attitudes and preferences which are relevant for political and economic decision-making processes.<br>The questionnaire contains numerous experimental variations in the survey instruments. For more information, see the study documentation.

Topics: Vignette experiment on the fair decision on the granting of bank loans or financial products to private individuals and acceptance of the type of decision; Vignette experiment on the fair decision on the early release of prisoners and acceptance of the type of decision; Vignette experiment on the fair decision on the hiring of new employees or the dismissal of employees in the probationary period and acceptance of the type of decision; Vignette experiment on the fair decision of the reduction of unemployment benefits or the awarding of support measures of job seekers and acceptance of the type of decision; ownership of smartphone, mobile phone, desktop computer/PC or laptop, tablet, eBook reader or none of the above; account with user name and password at selected providers (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Xing, at none of these providers); awareness of the following terms: Artificial intelligence, computer algorithms, machine learning, recommendation services, targeted/personalised advertising, none of these terms; knowledge of the purposes for which artificial intelligence technologies are used (advertising on social networks, curation of news on social networks, recommendations in online shops, recommendations on video streaming sites, ranking of results in search engines, responses from intelligent assistants, suggestions about potential partners on dating platforms, content of Wikipedia articles, website of a local restaurant, for other purposes, none of these purposes); concern about privacy in general; agreement with various statements about sharing data (I don´t mind sharing personal information because everyone does it nowadays, You can´t live in our modern world without sharing personal information, If you share personal information, you don´t know who sees it all, I don´t mind sharing my personal information if it gets me products and services I´d like); feeling sufficient control over personal information; type of internet activities in the last 3 months (e.g. searched for address, searched for information about products and services, etc.); trust in institutions (banks, private companies, judiciary, employment agencies); conjoint experiment to decide between two hypothetical parties with different attributes on the ideological position of each party and the parties´ positions on the issues of free market economy (trade between Germany and EU countries), trade barriers (trade between the EU and non-EU countries), freedom of movement (access of workers from EU countries to Germany) and immigration (access of workers from non-EU countries to the EU); experiment on the position of concrete parties on the topics of free market economy, trade barriers, freedom of movement, immigration and European unification; participation in the election to the European Parliament; actual or hypothetical voting decision in the hypothetical voting decision in the election to the European Parliament; opinion on European unification; experiment on trust in the results of four different surveys on the topic of European unification; interest in the topic of European unification; clear opinion on whether the process of European unification should be further advanced or not.

Occupational situation: employment status or (professional) activities; professional status of paid activity (employed, self-employed or helping family member); short-time work or leave with/without continued payment of wages of employed persons; amount of work short-time work of employed persons; amount of work in self-employed activity (more, about the same or less than before the start of the Corona pandemic, not working at all in my self-employed activity at the moment); Place of work of main activity (exclusively on site with employer or client, mainly on site with employer, occasionally in home office, about equally on site with employer and in home office, mainly in home office, occasionally with employer or client, exclusively in home office); probability of own unemployment in the next 12 months.

Impact of measures to contain the Corona pandemic in Germany (economic damage greater than societal benefit vs. societal benefit greater than economic damage); respondent´s monthly net income (grouped); household net income (grouped); satisfaction with selected areas of life (work and family life).

Demography: sex; age (year of birth, categorised); highest educational degree; highest professional qualification; marital status; household size; employment status; German citizenship; frequency of private internet usage; federal state.

Additionally coded were: Respondent ID; household ID, GIP; person ID (within household); year of recruitment (2012, 2014, 2018); interview date; current online status; assignment to experimental groups.

Questionnaire evaluation (interesting, varied, relevant, long, difficult, too personal); overall assessment of the survey; respondent made further comments on the questionnaire.