Study title

The survey "Topic-specific Information Behaviour on the Corona Pandemic" by the market and opinion research institute INFO GmbH examines the attitudes of the population towards the Corona Pandemic, their information behaviour and their handling of the topic as well as the assessment of the reporting on the Corona Pandemic. Thus, the current survey wave in November 2021 builds on surveys on the same topic in November 2020 and April 2021. The survey was conducted on behalf of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government.Political interest; politically informed; general attitude towards politics in Germany (satisfaction with politics, influence on politics, attitude towards parties and politicians, understanding of politics); perception of various information offers of the federal government; currently most interesting political or social topic (open); currently most annoying topic (open); most frequently mentioned topics: Corona pandemic, environmental protection/climate change, foreigners/immigration/asylum/refugees, federal government/formation of government/coalition negotiations; split A: complex of questions on the annoying topic, split B: complex of questions on the interesting topic: what is most interesting/annoying in the context of this topic; being informed about this topic; personal behaviour in dealing with this topic (searched for information on the topic oneself, watched video contributions on the Internet or television on the topic, read articles on the topic in newspapers or on the Internet in full, only skimmed articles on the topic, talked to friends or acquaintances about the topic, tried to change the topic when talking about the topic, avoided the topic as much as possible, argued with others about the topic); evaluation of the reporting on this topic (too detailed, too complicated, too extensive, untrustworthy, balanced, correct, only aims to influence people, contains many opinions with which I disagree, I feel it is one-sided,...