Social Cohesion in Baden-Wuerttemberg 2022

The study on social cohesion in Baden-Württemberg was conducted by Norstat Deutschland GmbH on behalf of the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration Baden-Württemberg. In the survey period 09.12.2021 to 04.01.2022, 2,716 people aged 16 and over were surveyed in online interviews (CAWI) on the following topics: well-being, social cohesion, political attitudes, Corona, and young people in the neighbourhood. The respondents were selected through quota sampling.
The study is part of the Radar project, which has been investigating various aspects of social cohesion nationally and internationally since 2013.<br>Well-being: Life satisfaction; self-assessment of health status; chronic illness;
Social cohesion and attitudes towards politics: sense of attachment to: Europe, Germany, Baden-Württemberg, the region, the place of residence, and with the neighborhood; size of circle of friends and acquaintances; frequency of meetings with friends/acquaintances; frequency of contact with friends/acquaintances; change in contact with friends/acquaintances in the Corona pandemic; friends on whose help one could count in case of difficulties; number of friends on whose support one could count in case of difficulties; friends or acquaintances who would lend 1,000 euros in an emergency; general trust in persons; strength of trust at first encounter; institutional trust: Strength of trust in political parties, courts, police, state government, state parliament, federal government, Bundestag, and city or district or local government, public broadcasting (ARD, ZDF), daily newspapers, social media, science, doctors; agreement with various statements (Social differences in our country are fair, in Germany you are compensated according to your performance, fair if everyone gets the same, economic gains are distributed fairly in Germany today, differences in rank between people are acceptable, most people don´t care about their fellow human beings at all, most people have good intentions, nowadays you can´t rely on anyone); social participation: donations in the past 12 months; frequency of volunteer work; type of political participation in the past 12 months (e.g., collecting signatures for political causes, participating in a demonstration, participating in a citizens´ initiative, etc.); membership in a club or nonprofit organization; threat vs. enrichment of life in Germany by increasing diversity; acceptance of different groups of people in the neighborhood (people with a completely different lifestyle, people with a different religion, foreigners/migrants, homosexuals, families with children, people with disabilities); feeling of safety in the neighborhood; neighborhood in the immediate vicinity where one would not want to go alone at night; recognition of social rules: various problems in the neighborhood (e.g. dog excrement on the street, disturbance of the peace, etc.); interest in politics; interest in local politics; likelihood of voting in the next elections; political self-ranking left-right; party preference; optimism about the future; tendency toward conspiracy theories (public version of government obscures the truth, public is never informed about many very important things in the world, politicians do not provide information about the true motives of their decisions, government agencies closely monitor all citizens, events often the result of secret activities, there are secret organizations with great influence on political decisions); satisfaction with democracy; social cohesion in Germany is at risk;

Corona: change in social cohesion in Germany in the Corona pandemic; assessment of cohesion in the neighborhood; change in social cohesion in the neighborhood in the Corona pandemic; assessment of the handling of the Corona pandemic by politicians; agreement with statements: The needs of people like me were adequately addressed during the Corona pandemic; the policy did enough for people like me in the context of the Corona pandemic; Evaluation of the policy´s outreach during the Corona pandemic to different groups (elderly, youth, children, families, single parents, people with disabilities, people with pre-existing conditions, people in need of care, people with mental illness, unemployed, workers unable to work at home, workers who had to work at home, cultural workers, and health care workers); encounters in times of Corona: More solidarity than usual or more hostility; freedom of citizens vs. Protection of health should be priority in times of Corona; due to Corona pandemic, my civil and liberty rights will be limited; increase in conflicts between population groups in Corona pandemic; society will emerge weakened or strengthened from Corona crisis; experienced economic consequences of the Corona pandemic (lost job, had to close business, reduced to short-time work, work in home office, receive money from aid package, go to work as before, take care of children at home); since the beginning of the Corona pandemic: More household chores done than before, more frequent quarrels and conflicts in the family, more frequent quarrels and conflicts among friends and acquaintances; perceived impairment by the measures taken to fight the Corona pandemic; psychological changes since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic (feel more nervous and anxious, more irritable and have regular fights with my family, feel tired and sometimes exhausted, difficulty concentrating, find it difficult to make decisions, feel uncomfortable communicating with others): target persons with children in the household were asked: stresses since the beginning of the Corona pandemic compared to before in the following areas of life: Housing situation, work-family balance, children´s school routine, child care, and financial situation; Corona experience (tested positive for COVID-19, have/had severe symptoms myself; close people have/had severe symptoms, close people have died as a result of infection with COVID-19, fully vaccinated); intention to be vaccinated in the near future; willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at regular intervals in the future; length of residence at current residence (always, since year);

Adolescents: Place of residence a good place for adolescents; Support services for adolescents in the residential area; Facilities in the residential area in terms of: attractive leisure activities for adolescents, contact persons for adolescents, such as social workers, suitable meeting places for adolescents; Sufficient attention to the needs of adolescents in the course of the Corona pandemic; Change in the situation of adolescents in the residential area since the beginning of the Corona pandemic.

Demography: sex; age; age groups; highest educational attainment; amount of net monthly household income; household size; number of persons in household aged 0 to 13 years, 14 to 17 years, and 18 years and older; housing status; if rented, owned, or sublet/shared: Dwelling is in a two-family house, in an apartment building, or in a high-rise building/large apartment complex; steady partnership; children; number of children; number of children aged 0 to 5 years, 6 to 13 years, 14 to 17 years, 18 to 29 years, 30 years and older; children in household; employment status; membership in a religious community; Denomination or religious community; received ongoing financial assistance for living expenses in the last twelve months; assessment of personal economic situation; born in Germany; country of birth of respondent; German citizenship; citizenship of respondent; father and mother born in Germany (migration background).

Additionally coded were: Record number; total interview time; weighting factors; government district; homogenized ROR (region); county; county code number; political municipality class; county type, urban/rural; county location.