People with a History of Immigration (August-December 2023)

The study among people with a history of immigration was conducted by infratest dimap on behalf of the Federal Press Office. In the survey period 23.08.2023 to 05.12.2023, randomly selected people aged 18 and over who either immigrated themselves or whose both parents immigrated to what is now Germany after 1950 were interviewed in online interviews (CAWI) and personal interviews (PAPI). The respondents were selected using a residents´ registration office sample with onomastic name classification. With the help of onomastic procedures, people can be assigned to a migration background with a high degree of certainty on the basis of their first and last name. The people were asked about the following topics: origin, living situation and attachment to Germany as well as political attitudes, trust in institutions and use of media and information.<br>Origin: Country of birth; region of birth (Germany, EU, other Europe, Asia, Africa, other region); year of immigration to Germany; parents born in Germany; country and region of birth of mother and father; German citizenship; other citizenship; other citizenship; mention of other citizenship; interest in German citizenship; estimated effort required to acquire German citizenship; self-assessment of German language skills; most frequently used language in the household.

Togetherness in Germany: attachment to the immediate neighborhood, the city or municipality, Germany, Europe, and the parents´ country of origin; proportion of friends and acquaintances from Germany; frequency of contact with natives in one´s own family or close relatives, at work, in the neighborhood and in other circles of friends and acquaintances; desired contact with natives.

Life in Germany: satisfaction with various areas of life (own life overall, own financial situation, quality of life in Germany, social cohesion in Germany, opportunities for social advancement in Germany, healthcare in Germany, situation on the labour market, social security, interaction with other people in Germany, status of digitalization, German education system, public administration, functioning of democracy in Germany); assessment of own economic circumstances in comparison to others as fair vs. not fair; subjective experiences of discrimination in the last 24 months (on racial reasons, due to belonging to an ethnic group or coming from another country, due to sex, religion or belief, due to age, due to low income, due to sexual orientation); places for subjective experience of discrimination (in offices or authorities, in educational institutions, at work, on the housing market, in public, in leisure time, in stores or in the service sector, with the police and in the private sphere); reaction to the experience of discrimination (sought advice, tried to draw public attention to discrimination, complained to an official body, filed a complaint, other, none of the above); awareness of support services for discrimination.

Politics in Germany: most important political issues in Germany; trust in institutions (courts, police, federal government, political parties, and media in Germany); sense of representation in German politics, German media and associations, interest groups and clubs in Germany.

Political information behavior: Interest in politics in general; interest in politics in Germany and in the parents´ country of origin; being informed about political issues; frequency of use of media and information sources for political information from Germany and from the parents´ country of origin; frequency of use of various media and information sources for political information (e.g. public television, private television programs, radio, newspapers and magazines, Internet news sites and news apps, etc.); assessment of the work of the Federal Government: satisfaction with the Federal Government´s commitment to the interests and concerns of people with a migration background; perception of the information provided by the Federal Government on the following channels: on the Federal Government´s website, on the Federal Government´s pages on social media, in Federal Government brochures or magazines, on Federal Government posters, from interviews with government politicians on television, in newspapers or on the Internet; satisfaction with the information provided by the Federal Government; criticism of the information provided by the Federal Government (e.g. not credible enough, too criticism of the information provided by the Federal Government (e.g. not credible enough, too one-sided, too contradictory, etc.); awareness of multilingual information provided by the Federal Government; assessment of the multilingual information offered by the federal government as sufficient; awareness and assessment of the federal government´s diversity strategy in the federal administration; opinion on the reform of the citizenship law (only having to have lived in Germany for 5 years instead of 8 years, no longer having to give up citizenship of the country of origin, no more naturalization test and only basic German language skills for over 67-year-olds).

Demography: sex; year of birth; month of birth; age (calculated), age grouped, number of persons in household; highest educational qualification; education (grouped); employment; monthly net household income; net household income grouped.

Additionally coded were: interview number; data source (CAWI/ PAPI); interview language; municipality code: city/county; political municipality size according to municipality code; BIK municipality type (inhabitants of BIK region according to municipality code, federal state according to municipality code, weight.