Government Monitor (October 2016)

General political attitudes. Opinion on current political issues. Political tasks.

Topics: the main problem in Germany; party sympathy; interest in politics; general development in the country in the right direction; average intensity of the activities of the federal government in terms of long-term problems; political tasks: importance of improvements in selected policy areas and assessment of the progress of the federal government in these areas; importance of improvements in digitization and evaluation of the progress of the federal government in these area; refugees or asylum seekers in the residential area; rather positive, rather negative or no experience with refugees in the residential area and in Germany; attitude towards refugees in Germany (increase in crime, better demand for qualified workers, cultural enrichment, expected return of most refugees to their home country, Germany financially cannot afford the refugees, good accommodation and care, help against ageing population).

Demography: age (categorized); sex; marital status; living together with a partner; highest educational degree or aspired degree; academic degree; graduation; employment status; job security; occupational position; household size; number of persons in the household aged 18 and over; union member in the household; confession; frequency of church attendance; number of phone numbers in the household.

Also encoded was: respondent-ID; federal state; district assignment Berlin West/East; city size; weighting factor.