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The German Internet Panel (GIP) is a long-term study at the University of Mannheim. The GIP examines individual attitudes and preferences that are relevant in political and economic decision-making processes. To this end, more than 3,500 people throughout Germany have been regularly surveyed online every two months since 2012 on a wide range of topics. The GIP is based on a random sample of the general population in Germany between the ages of 16 and 75. The study started in 2012 and was supplemented by new participants in 2014 and 2018. The panel participants were recruited offline. The GIP questionnaires cover a variety of topics that deal with current events.The questionnaire contains numerous experimental variations in the survey instruments. Further information can be found in the study documentation. Opinion on the need for reform of the healthcare system in Germany; favored measures for financing the healthcare system (increase contributions to health insurance, increase co-payments by patients, general tax increases, reduce remuneration of doctors, reduce remuneration of pharmacies and the pharmaceutical industry, limit medical services, other, do not favor any of these measures); preference for GP model vs. free choice of doctor; opinion on the need to reform social security for the unemployed in Germany; conditions for receiving unemployment benefit II (Hartz IV) (no other conditions, neediness, actively seeking work, accepting reasonable job offers, accepting any job offer, having previously worked in Germany, German citizenship, other conditions, unemployment benefit II should be abolished without replacement, unemployment benefit II should be abolished and replaced by something else); opinion on the regulation of the German labor market; opinion on the need to reform the pension system in Germany; most and least favored proposals for financing statutory pensions (increase contributions to statutory pension insurance, raise retirement age, general...