Study title

The German Internet Panel (GIP) is an infrastructure project. The GIP serves to collect data on individual attitudes and preferences that are relevant to political and economic decision-making processes. The questionnaire contains numerous experimental variations in the survey instruments. Further information can be found in the study documentation. Topics: Responsibility of the state for adequate health care for the sick; more or less government and statutory health insurance expenditure on the health care system; self-assessment of the state of health; type of health insurance; responsibility of the state for adequate care in the event of the need for long-term care of the elderly; more or less government expenditure or of the statutory long-term care insurance for long-term care; responsibility of the state for an adequate standard of living in old age; more or less expenditure by the state and the statutory pension insurance for pensions; preferred statutory retirement age in Germany (open); attitude towards basic provision in old age (experiment with different response options: current needs-based basic provision in old age, additional poverty-preventing basic pension, additional but means-tested basic pension, introduction of a new citizens´ pension for all instead of the previous basic provision, none of the proposals); receipt of pension payments in 2019 from various sources (statutory old-age pension or civil servants´ pension, statutory early retirement or pre-retirement pension, company pension, private pension, reduced earning capacity pension / civil servants´ pension due to incapacity to work, survivors´ pension, benefit for victims of war, benefits from long-term care insurance, none of these payments); contributions made in 2019 to various types of old-age provision (statutory old-age pension, occupational pension, private pension, private occupational disability insurance, life insurance, other old-age provision, none of these payments made);...