Study title

The study series “Environmental Consciousness in Germany” has been conducted every two years since 1996 on behalf of the Federal Ministry for the Environment and the Federal Environment Agency to investigate how environmental awareness and environmental behavior are developing among the population in Germany. The aim is to understand the existing patterns of thought and action in society and to anticipate the needs of different population groups. The survey 2022 was conducted by forsa from June 17 to June 30, 2022. In addition to updating the central time series questions of the study series on environmental awareness, it included an extensive block of questions on this year´s main topic of “Labour, economy and social affairs”. As part of the survey, a total of 2,073 people in Germany aged 14 and over were interviewed online (CAWI = computer assisted web interview). The selected persons were members of the forsa.onminet panel. Recruitment was done via telephone interviews based on random samples to ensure the representativeness of the panel. As only a small number of respondents aged 14 to 19 could be recruited during the survey period, a follow-up survey was conducted from August 25 to September 1, 2022, with around 60 respondents from this age group.Importance of various socio-political issues (social equality, economic development, crime, public safety, wars, terrorism, environmental and climate protection, digitalization, unemployment, immigration, integration, state of the education system, state of the healthcare system, development of urban and rural areas, course and consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, data protection); areas where change is urgently needed (sufficient and affordable housing, better job opportunities and fair wages, improvement of educational opportunities, more environmental, nature and climate protection, integration of immigrants, improvement of public safety, more investment in infrastructure (such as road and rail networks,...