German Internet Panel, Wave 55 - Core Study (September 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.

For this wave (W55) and the two following waves (W56/57) a booster sample was drawn from the forsa Omninet Panel. The waves in question are designed as a study of the 2021 federal election and the impact of Covid-19 on the federal election and society. The survey of the wave took place before the Bundestag election and the surveys of waves 56 and 57 took place after the Bundestag election. Especially for the federal election, the number of participants should be further increased in order to be able to make more precise statements about individual groups in society. In addition, this also enables further research by combining different samples.<br>The questionnaire contains numerous experimental variations in the survey instruments. For more information, see the study documentation.

German nationality; marital status; number of household members (household size); age (categorised) and sex of up to 4 household members; relationship of the respondent to these persons; federal state of main residence; highest general school leaving certificate; highest vocational training or (technical) university degree; employment status;

Occupational situation: employment status or (occupational) activity; main occupation; previous employment status (full-time or part-time); occupational position; for the current or previous employment relationship, the following was asked: dependent employee, self-employed or helping family member; short-time work; amount of short-time work; economic sector;

Satisfaction with selected areas of life (family life, work); personal monthly net income; household net income; respondent has already voted in the 2021 federal election; voting decision (first vote, second vote); intended voting decision (first vote, second vote), if not yet voted; party affiliation and party identification; strength of party identification; left-right self-assessment; left-right assessment of the parties CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP, Bündnis90/Die Grünen, Die Linke and Alternative für Deutschland (AfD); knowledge test: Knowledge of current German chancellor(s) and their direct predecessor(s) based on pictures (Helmut Kohl, Helmut Schmidt, Angela Merkel and Gerhard Schröder); knowledge of current German foreign ministers and their direct predecessor(s) based on pictures (Christian Lindner, Sigmar Gabriel, Heiko Maas, Gerd Müller); sympathy scalometer for the parties CDU/CSU, SPD, Bündnis90/Die Grünen, FDP, AfD and Die Linke; sympathy scalometer for the top candidates of the parties (Armin Laschet, Annalena Baerbock and Olaf Scholz); satisfaction with democracy; satisfaction with the performance of the federal government and the state government with regard to the Corona pandemic; preferences with regard to the decision-making powers of the federal government, the state governments and the German Bundestag in the event of another pandemic; trust in public bodies and institutions, two each named - experiment (federal government, local city and municipal government, Bundestag, political parties, European Commission, European Parliament, television, newspaper system, online social networks, colleges and universities, police, public health, Federal Constitutional Court and judiciary); agreement with statement: during the Corona pandemic, I was informed comprehensively and truthfully by the federal government (by the German Bundestag, by the political parties, by the Robert Koch Institute, by television, by newspapers, by online social networks, by scientists); Experiments: Evaluation of curfews as a measure to combat the pandemic; evaluation of the restriction of the right to criticise political decisions as a measure to combat the pandemic; feeling free to express one´s own opinion in public/ in relation to the measures to combat the pandemic; opinion on the export of vaccines to poorer countries at the expense of care in Germany (experiment); opinion on the vigilante justice of neighbours when the permitted number of visitors is exceeded or of business managers when the permitted number of customers is exceeded. of business managers when the permitted number of customers is exceeded (experiment); welfare state: responsibility of the state for health care; responsibility of the state for an adequate standard of living in old age; responsibility of the state for an adequate standard of living for the unemployed; responsibility of the state for an adequate standard of living for families with children; interest in home office or respondent already works at home; opinion on a legal regulation on home office.

Conjoint experiment to assess the impact of fictive care situations on child well-being. Respondents were assigned a combination of values of different attributes (age of child, care, working hours).

Demography: sex; age (year of birth, categorised); (additional forsa sample: age in years); highest school-leaving qualification; highest professional educational qualification; marital status; household size; employment status; German nationality; 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, additional forsa sample 2021); interview date; current online status; assignment to experimental groups.

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