Crisis Monitor (Week 8/2024)

The Crisis Monitor has been conducted regularly by the opinion research institute forsa on behalf of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government since calendar week 1/2023. The Crisis Monitor is the continuation of the representative population surveys conducted regularly by forsa from calendar week 13/2022 to 50/2022 on the topic of Germany and the war in Ukraine. The individual question areas were adjusted depending on the survey period. In the survey period from 19.02.2024 to 21.02.2024, the German-speaking resident population aged 14 and over was surveyed in telephone interviews (CATI). Respondents were selected using a multi-stage random sample..<br>Level of personal stress caused by the current situation surrounding the current crises in Germany; developments in Germany that personally cause the most concern; opinion on the level of controversy on important political issues (there is too much, too little or just the right amount of controversy); assessment of the overall opportunities to make a difference in Germany together with others through political engagement; assessment of the potential for conflict in Germany between different social groups (left-wing and right-wing political forces, people with different views on the situation in the Middle East, people who support democracy and people who want to abolish democracy); democracy in Germany currently at risk; reasons for endangered democracy (open); agreement with the following statements on democracy (We in Germany can be proud of our democracy, we need to talk more in our society with people who disagree with us politically, it is important to contradict people in everyday life who make disparaging remarks about democracy, our democracy will only last if every citizen stands up for it).

Demography: sex; age (grouped); employment; education; party preference in the next federal election; voting behavior in the last federal election; income situation low, medium, high (net equivalent income).

Additionally coded were: West/East region; federal state; weighting factor.