Trend Questions Corona (Week 2/2021)

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 about the corona virus (open question); credibility of the information provided by the federal government on the corona crisis; assessment of current political measures to contain the corona virus (appropriate, go too far or do not go far enough); current place of work: workplace away from home, at home in home office, not at all (e.g. due to lack of orders, short-time work); informedness about the following aspects in regard to a Corona vaccination (effectiveness and possible side effects of the vaccines, according to which schedule the vaccines are distributed to the population, how one learns about it if one can be vaccinated oneself); basic willingness to be vaccinated against the Corona virus as soon as it is one´s own turn; reasons why the respondent would (probably) not be vaccinated against the Corona virus (e.g. uncertainty about side effects/consequential effects of vaccine, no confidence in Corona vaccine in general, low health risks, doubt about existence of Corona virus, etc.).

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.