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Since 2014, Wissenschaft im Dialog has been using the science barometer to collect population-representative data on the attitudes of German citizens towards science and research on an annual basis. The aim is to contribute to a fact-based discourse on the relationship between science and the public and targeted science communication by collecting, processing and communicating the results. The questionnaire of the science barometer contains corresponding questions on cognitive attitudes such as interest and information and the respondents´ information behaviour on topics from science and research. In addition, evaluative attitudes will be collected on issues such as trust, the assessment of the benefits and risks of science and the social role of research. The questions are aimed at general attitudes towards science and research. In individual cases, questions are also devoted to specific research areas or technologies or, alternately, to current developments in science and the public. The science barometers 2014 to 2016 were sponsored by the Philip Morris Foundation, the science barometers 2017 to 2019 by the Robert Bosch Foundation. Topics: 1. Interest in science and research and being informed: Interest in politics, culture, local affairs and science and research; importance of different areas of life (friends and family, leisure time, work and profession, politics, volunteer work); expectation of self-efficacy (have my life in my own hands, if I make an effort I will succeed, life is determined by others, plans are thwarted by fate) Relevance of overall social goals (stable economy, strong social cohesion, a society where money is not the most important thing, maintaining internal security, social justice, environmental protection, implementation of measures to limit climate change); Attitudes towards globalisation, the environment and technical progress (through globalisation most people in Germany will be better off in the future, restriction of...