German Internet Panel, Wave 66 (July 2023)

The German Internet Panel (GIP) is a long-term study at the University of Mannheim. The GIP examines individual attitudes and preferences that are relevant in political and economic decision-making processes. To this end, more than 3,500 people throughout Germany have been regularly surveyed online every two months since 2012 on a wide range of topics. The GIP is based on a random sample of the general population in Germany between the ages of 16 and 75. The study started in 2012 and was supplemented by new participants in 2014 and 2018. The panel participants were recruited offline. The GIP questionnaires cover a variety of topics that deal with current events.<br>The questionnaire contains numerous experimental variations in the survey instruments. Further information can be found in the study documentation.

Topics: Opinion on a reform of the German health care system; preferred measures for financing the health care system; preference for a general practitioner model or free choice of doctor; opinion on a reform of social security for the unemployed; conditions for receiving unemployment benefit II (Hartz IV); preferred scope of rules for the German labour market; opinion on a reform of the pension system; most and least preferred proposals for financing statutory pensions; opinion on a reform of the education system; preferred level of spending on the education system; most important area of education on which the federal government should spend more money and area of education on which less money should be spent in particular; opinion on a reform of the tax system; demand for government measures to reduce income disparities; acceptance of tax evasion; opinion on reforms to the labor market and social systems in the member states of the eurozone; opinion on the EU´s power to make decisions on reforms in the member states; policy areas in which the European Union should make more or should decide more or less than at present (foreign and security policy, economy and finance, justice and home affairs, labor and social affairs, competition policy, agriculture and fisheries, environment, education, other areas); areas in which the state should most likely expand and most likely reduce services (health services, basic security for the unemployed, job promotion for the unemployed, old-age pensions, education, childcare facilities, in none of these areas); impression in relation to a fictitious person with certain characteristics (religious affiliation, religiosity); assessment of the probability of getting a lost wallet back from the aforementioned fictitious persons.

Demography: sex; age (year of birth, categorized); highest level of education; highest level of professional education; marital status; household size; employment status; German citizenship; frequency of private Internet use; federal state.

Additionally coded were: respondent ID, GIP; 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.