German Internet Panel, Wave 26 (November 2016)

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.

The questionnaire contains numerous experimental variations in the survey instruments and an experiment which is identical across all questionnaires. For more information see the study documentation.

Topics: Opinion on current political issues: ALG II: preference for the current or a revised regulation of the ALG II with respect to the standard rates and the supplementary income limit; expected impact of the amended ALG II regulation on the share of ALG II job-seeking recipients; perceived budget effect of the amended ALG II regulation on the financial situation of selected groups (the unemployed, low-income employees and high-income employees); perceived effect of this amended ALG-II regulation on own income; perceived effect of an anticipated general wage reduction of three per cent on labor demand; estimated percentage by which labor demand would increase or decrease; willingness to pay for this reform, if the own standard of living would increase; amount of such financial compensation.

Satisfaction with the achievements of the federal government (scale); satisfaction with the achievements of the parties CDU / CSU, Bündnis90 / Die Grünen, SPD and Die Linke (scale); unity of the federal government and of the party CDU; political interest; estimated influence of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel on legislation; satisfaction with the achievements of Angela Merkel as Federal Chancellor; problem solving competence of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel; vote choice on state level (second vote, Sunday question, state of the main residence); unity of the state government and of the parties on state level; estimated influence of the prime minister on legislation on state level; satisfaction with the achievements of the prime minister (scale); problem-solving competence of the prime minister.

Opinion on a school safety law due to rampage; preferred candidate as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, on the basis of selected attributes: occupation, closeness to a party, selection, age, origin, gender, and marital status; satisfaction with the respective candidates 1 and 2 if they were elected as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court; left-right self-placement; left-right-placement of the Federal Government and of the Federal Constitutional Court; knowledge of the acting president and of a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court; left-right placement of parties (CDU, CSU, SPD, FDP, Bündnis90 /Die Grünen, Die Linke, and Alternative für Deutschland.

Additionally coded was: unique ID, GIP; household identifier and person identifier; date of the interview; current online status; assignment to experimental groups; survey evaluation; assessment of the survey in total.

Assigned variables: sex; year of birth (categories); highest educational degree; highest professional degree; marital status; number of household members (household size); employment status; residence state; year of recruitment; German citizenship; private internet usage.