Study title

The German Internet Panel (GIP) is an infrastructure project. The GIP serves to collect data about individual attitudes and preferences which are relevant for political and economic decision-making processes. Experimental variations in the instruments were used. The questionnaire contains numerous randomizations (order of questions or answer categories) as well as a cross-questionnaire experiment. Topics: Personal trust; life satisfaction (scalometer); happiness scale; frequency of social contacts in general and compared to peers; frequency of selected activities in the last year (voluntary work, participation in a training course, participation in activities of clubs, political organisations or citizens´ initiatives, reading books, magazines or newspapers, solving crossword or number puzzles, card games); perceived personal esteem by loved ones; satisfaction with the current national economic situation and with the work of the federal government (scalometer); demand for government measures to reduce income disparities; assessment of the current general economic situation in Germany compared with 12 months ago and expected development in one year (business expectation); assessment of the current financial situation of the household compared to 12 months ago and expected development in one year; difficulties to make ends meet; employment status (ILO); sufficient qualification for more demanding work; training needs for the current job; qualification corresponds to requirements in the workplace; responsibility of selected institutions for the economic situation in the country (European Union, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Federal Government, banks); probability to vote for the parties CDU, CSU, SPD, Die Linke, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, FDP and Alternative für Deutschland (AfD); opinion on European unification; agreement on the Federal Government´s achievements; agreement on last year´s EU policy; probability of participation in the European elections;...