German Internet Panel, Wave 57 (January 2022)

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 (W57), and the preceding waves (W55 and W57), 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 wave 55 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.

Employment status or (occupational) activity; main job; partner; partner´s employment status or (occupational) activity; satisfaction with the domains of work and family life;

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

Opinion on home office legislation; impact of Corona pandemic containment measures in Germany (economic harm greater than societal benefit vs. societal benefits greater than economic harm); government should take action to reduce income inequality (GIP sample only); vaccination status; date of last vaccination (month/year); satisfaction with democracy; satisfaction with federal and state government performance regarding the Corona pandemic; preferences regarding decision-making authority of the federal government, state governments, the German Bundestag, and the Robert Koch Institute in the event of another pandemic; trust in public bodies and institutions, two each named-experiment (federal government, local city and town government, Bundestag, political parties, European Commission, European Parliament, television, newspaper system, online social networks, colleges and universities, police, health care, Federal Constitutional Court, and judiciary); agreement with statement: During the Corona pandemic, I was fully and truthfully informed by the federal government (by the German Bundestag, by political parties, by the Robert Koch Institute, by television, by newspapers, by online social networks, by scientists); Experiments: Evaluation of curfews as a pandemic control measure; evaluation of the restriction of the right to criticize political decisions as a pandemic control measure; feeling free to express one´s own opinion in public/ in relation to pandemic control measures; knowledge of the current foreign minister and his/her direct predecessors based on pictures (Christian Lindner, Annalena Baerbock, Heiko Maas, Gerd Müller); sympathy scalometer for the top candidates of the parties: Armin Laschet (CDU), Robert Habeck (Bündnis90/Die Grünen, and Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Christian Lindner (FDP); left-right self-rating;

Left-right rating of the parties CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP, Bündnis90/ Die Grünen); experiment on coalition questions (left-right rating of possible coalitions based on fictitious different distribution of seats in the Bundestag and the own left-right rating of the individual parties made in the previous question);

Experiment (GIP sample only) on a real chance of winning after choosing a lottery with different choices (only one of the lotteries shown in the graph, immediately choosing lottery A in the first step or choosing between the other lotteries shown in the next step, choosing between the other lotteries shown).

Migration: concern with regard to the issue of immigration; appropriate importance of the issue of immigration; preferred decision-making level with regard to immigration policy (federal government vs. European Union); facilitating vs. making legal immigration to Germany more difficult;

Climate change: concern with regard to climate change; appropriate status of the issue of climate change; preferred level of decision-making with regard to climate policy (federal government vs. European Union); responsibility for combating climate change (each individual vs. federal government); bans on climate-damaging technologies vs. incentives to use climate-friendly technologies.

Demography: sex; age (year of birth, categorized); (forsa Sample 2021: sex, age, and education); highest level of schooling; highest level of professional education; marital status; household size; employment status; German citizenship; frequency of private internet use; 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; preload experiments W45, W55, and W56; assignment of attribute values; assignment to experimental groups.

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