Protest Surveys: Fridays for Future - Global Climate Strike on March 15th, 2019. Survey at the Demonstrations in Berlin and Bremen

Since 2003, researchers associated with the Institute for the Study of Protest and Social Movements (Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung, ipb, http://protestinstitut.eu) have conducted surveys at demonstrations. This study is part of this ongoing series. The aim of the study is to gain insights into the composition and attitudes of participants at the “Fridays for Future” demonstrations for climate protection in March 2019 in Berlin, and Bremen. The focus is particularly on socio-demographic characteristics, political attitudes of the respondents encountered at the demonstrations. This survey is part of an international study on the Fridays for Future protests that used the same questionnaire in 13 cities in 9 European countries to survey the protesters at parallel demonstrations taking place worldwide (Wahlström et al. 2019). The demonstrations included in this dataset took place on March 15th in Berlin, and Bremen. The surveyed protests drew between 20,000(police estimate) and 25,000 (according to the organisers) participants in Berlin, and 5–6,000 (our own count) in Bremen. The questionnaire consisted of 72 questions. It was available in two languages: German and English. In order to allow for comparison with earlier protest surveys, the questionnaire relied on questions used in earlier protest surveys and the ipb base questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of the following groups of questions: • Motivation: open question about the motivation to take part in the demonstration • Protest mobilization: knowledge about the demonstration, mobilization network • Political activity: Membership in civil society organizations, past protest activity, forms of action • Political attitudes: evaluation of democracy, trust in institutions, self-placement on the political spectrum, party affiliation, voting tendency • Sociodemographic questions: gender, year of birth, education, occupation