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The study on citizens and democracy in Baden-Wuerttemberg was conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs on behalf of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research. During the survey period 01.11.2016 to 14.01.2017, the German-speaking resident population of Baden-Wuerttemberg aged 15 and older was surveyed in telephone interviews (CATI) on the following topics: social and political participation, political and social orientations, attitudes toward democracy, and information and communication behavior (media and political conversations). Respondents were selected by a multi-stage random sample from the ADM selection frame for landline numbers. The main sample was supplemented by an additional sample (quota sample) comprising only formally less educated persons with at most an intermediate level of education (Mittlere Reife).Topics: 1. Social and political participation: attachment to Germany, Europe, and the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg; activity in the past twelve months in selected clubs and organizations (e.g., recreational club, sports club or group, cultural or artistic association, charity or charitable organization, etc.); membership in an informal group of friends and acquaintances; frequency of neighborhood contacts (neighborhood visits, neighborhood help); opportunities used for political participation in Baden-Wuerttemberg in the last twelve months (contact with a politician, letter to the editor of a newspaper in Baden-Wuerttemberg, participation in a petition drive, demonstration or organized form of civic participation, Internet publication on political or social issues in Baden-Wuerttemberg, mobilization of others via the Internet). 2. Political and social orientations: general personal trust; institutional trust (political parties in Germany, Bundestag, national news media in Germany, political parties in Baden-Wuerttemberg, state parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg, local and regional news media in Baden-Wuerttemberg); interest in politics;...