Trend Questions Corona (Week 18/2021)

On behalf of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, the opinion research institute forsa has regularly conducted representative population surveys on the subject of the ´Corona crisis´ (COVID-19) from calendar week 12/2020. The individual question areas were adapted according to the survey period.<br>Concerns about infection with the Corona virus (self and family members or friends); concerns about infecting others; other concerns related to the Corona virus (open question); credibility of the information provided by the federal government on the Corona crisis; assessment of the current political measures to contain the Corona virus (appropriate, go too far or do not go far enough); Corona warning app installed and used on smartphone in the last few weeks, app installed but deleted in the meantime or never installed; reasons why the Corona warning app has not been installed so far; knowledge of the new function of the Corona warning app (anonymous check-in via QR code with later warning about infected person); evaluation of this new function; evaluation of possible future functions of the Corona warning app (displaying results of rapid tests and whether someone has already been vaccinated or not); likelihood of (also) using the Corona warning app in the future.

Demography: sex; age (grouped); employment; education; net household income (grouped); party preference in the next federal election; voting behaviour in the last federal election.

Additionally coded were: region; federal state; weight.