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For the study ´Topic-specific Information Behaviour on the COVID-19 Pandemic´, the market and opinion research institute INFO GmbH surveyed a total of 2,012 persons of the German-speaking resident population aged 16 and over from 6 to 25 November 2020 on behalf of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. The subject of the survey were attitudes of the population to the topic of the coronavirus pandemic, their information behaviour and handling of the topic as well as the reporting on the topic of the coronavirus pandemic.1. General questions: interest in politics; self-assessment of being politically informed; agreement with statements on disenchantment with politics (e.g. satisfied with politics in Germany all in all, parties only want the voters´ votes, they are not interested in their views, etc.); frequency of media use on political topics; statements on information processing (I specifically look for information on a political topic that interests me, I read through an article on a political event in its entirety, I read through a background report on a political topic in its entirety); perception of information from the federal government on selected information channels in recent months (e.g. federal government websites, interviews of government politicians on television, etc.); credibility of information from the federal government on political topics. 2. Current interest in the topic: currently most interesting political or social topic (open question); currently most annoying political or social topic (open question); previously greater interest in the currently most annoying topic. 3. Attitudes towards the topic of the coronavirus pandemic (e.g. the topic interests me, the topic is socially relevant, bores me, annoys me, etc.). 4. Information behaviour and dealing with the topic of the coronavirus pandemic: self-assessment of current level of information about the coronavirus pandemic; frequency of certain behaviours in dealing...