German Internet Panel, Wave 52 (March 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. Further information can be found in the study documentation.

Current (professional) activity; professional position; short-time work; scope of work of short-time work; scope of work of self-employment (more than before the start of the Corona pandemic, about the same or less than before the start of the Corona pandemic or not working at all in my self-employed activity at the moment); place of work (exclusively on site at the employer´s or client´s premises, predominantly on site at the employer´s or client´s premises, occasionally in the home office, approximately equally on site at the employer´s premises and in the home office, predominantly in the home office, occasionally at the employer´s or client´s premises, exclusively in the home office); based on an average working day in the past seven days: Number of hours per day spent on work, teaching and studying, on childcare, care for dependents and housework; satisfaction with work and family life domains; impact of measures to contain the Corona pandemic in Germany (economic damage greater than societal benefit vs. societal benefits greater than economic damage); support for the demand for a right to reduce working hours (with partial wage compensation)); experiences with care and care dependency in the past five years;

Political effectiveness (understand and appreciate political issues well, politicians strive for close contact with the population, participation in discussions on political issues, contact of politicians with citizens); left-right classification Federal Constitutional Court (Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ), European Parliament, European Commission); diffuse support Federal Constitutional Court (Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ), European Parliament, European Commission): Agreement with the statement: if the Federal Constitutional Court (Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ), European Parliament, European Commission) made many decisions that most people disagreed with, it would be better to abolish the Federal Constitutional Court (Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ), European Parliament, European Commission) altogether; rule of law (it is not necessary to obey a law that one considers unjust, it is not necessary to obey the laws of a government that I did not elect);

Ownership of mobile phone, computer or laptop and tablet computer; mobile phone is a smartphone; smartphone type; devices used to access the internet; use of social media applications (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Xing) on the internet or as a mobile app;

Influence of the influx of migrants on the employment level of the native population; credibility of scientific studies on the impact of migration on the employment level of the native population; Experiment on evidence-based policy decisions; Desire for information overview on scientific studies on ´The impact of migration on the employment level of the native population´; Influx of migrants generally good vs. bad for Germany;

Debt brake: Preferred timing of debt brake by federal and state governments; Evaluation of debt brake; Likelihood of compliance with debt brake from 2021 by state of main residence;

Experiment on investment decisions: Checking understanding of instructions; envelope opened; willingness to pay for opening the chosen envelope (highest amount between 0 and 10 euros); in case of decision not to open an envelope: smallest amount between 0 and 10 euros that would have had to be paid to the respondent at least to open a gold or a silver envelope; investment decision group project (amount between 0 and 10 euros); reasons for personal investment decision (own payoff, group payoff, fairness, other reason);

Main medium used for political information (newspapers (both print and online versions), TV, radio, social media); specific sources of political information.

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; PDF document Information Overview Migration was retrieved.

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