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Objective: The longitudinal study "Cultural Education and Cultural Participation in Germany (KuBiPaD)" examines patterns of cultural participation in Germany on the basis of a standardized population survey. The study was launched as a cross-sectional survey in 2018 and was expanded into a panel study in 2021. Cultural participation encompasses the consumption, reception and non-professional production of artistic goods in the fields of music, film, literature, performing arts and visual arts. In the second wave of the survey, the focus was expanded to include participation in gaming/video games and the media consumption of cultural offerings. In order to explain participation in culture, variables relating to resources and opportunity structure, socialization stimuli and personal preferences and skills were collected. A special instrument was developed to measure cognitive skills in the fields of painting and music. In the second wave, a factorial survey experiment was also conducted in the field of literature. Method: The population of the baseline survey consisted of German-speaking people aged 15 and over living in private households in Germany. In a two-stage selection process, a random sample of 200 sample points in 183 municipalities was first drawn, stratified according to a combination of districts and BIK10 region size classes. In the second step, people aged 15 and over were randomly selected from the population registers of these municipalities. In standardized, computer-assisted face-to-face interviews (CAPI), 2592 people were interviewed between July and December 2018. The response rate was 22.9%. In the second wave, 1541 people took part in the survey again. The re-interview rate was therefore 59.5%. In addition, to compensate for the reduced number of cases, a new resident register sample of people aged 15 and over in private households was drawn at random from the same 183 municipalities as in the first wave. In the end, 914 people from the...