Government Monitor (April 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; Refinement of the social system: preference for high taxes and extensive welfare vs. low taxes and low social benefits; preferred development of social benefits: expansion vs. cutbacks of social services by the federal government; 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. 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.