Trend Questions Corona (Week 28/2020)

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>Interest in information on the corona crisis; interest in information on various topics (climate protection, sustainability, digitisation, German EU Council Presidency, refugee and asylum, pension policy, European policy and expansion of the mobile phone network); assessment of the scope of the reports and information on the corona crisis; credibility of the information provided by the Federal Government on the corona crisis; assessment of the current political measures to contain the corona virus assessment of various statements in connection with the political measures to contain the corona virus as probable (the Federal Government exaggerates the risk posed by the corona virus to public health, the corona virus was deliberately put into circulation, if a corona vaccine is available, everyone in Germany will be allowed to decide voluntarily whether to be vaccinated, if there is an app for tracing infection chains, everyone in Germany will be allowed to decide voluntarily whether to install this app, the wearing of mouth and nose masks in supermarkets or on public transport is harmful to health); current place of work: outside the home, home office, not at all (e.g. due to lack of orders, short-time work).

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

Additionally coded: region; federal state; weight.