Current Questions on the Economy (August 2025)

The short survey on current economic issues was conducted by forsa on behalf of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. During the survey period from August 11, 2025, to August 13, 2025, German-speaking individuals aged 14 and older were interviewed by telephone (CATI) about their attitudes toward current developments in Germany, the state of the economy and the labor market, as well as current economic policy and the measures of the immediate investment program. Respondents were selected using a multi-stage random sample as part of the forsa multi-topic survey (Politik-BUS), including landline and mobile phone numbers (dual-frame sample). The survey was supplemented by four qualitative online group discussions conducted by Ipsos on behalf of the BPA from August 5 to 6, 2025, with a total of 24 German-speaking individuals living in Germany. The report on the results of this qualitative study is available in the archive, but the corresponding data is not.Developments in Germany that cause the most concern (open question, 2 mentions); the federal government argues too much, too little, or just the right amount on important issues; assessment of the current economic situation in Germany; assessment of the federal government´s efforts to overcome economic challenges (doing enough, should do more, should be more cautious); Perception of the federal government´s investment program to strengthen Germany as a business location (growth booster); awareness of various measures in the investment program and assessment of these measures (companies should be able to deduct their investments from taxes more quickly, taxes for companies should be gradually reduced, the purchase of electric cars for companies should be promoted, the research allowance for companies should be expanded); investment program will boost the economy in Germany; job security. Demography: sex; age; education; employment; party preference in the next federal election; voting behavior in the last federal election; income level low, medium, high (net equivalent income). The following were also coded: West/East region; federal state; weighting factor.Die Kurzumfrage zu aktuellen Fragen zur Wirtschaft wurde von forsa im Auftrag des Presse- und Informationsamtes der Bundesregierung durchgeführt. Im Erhebungszeitraum 11.08.2025 bis 13.08.2025 wurden deutschsprachige Personen ab 14 Jahren in telefonischen Interviews (CATI) zu ihren Einstellungen zu aktuellen Entwicklungen in Deutschland, zur Lage der Wirtschaft und am Arbeitsmarkt sowie zur aktuellen Wirtschaftspolitik und den Maßnahmen des Investitionssofortprogramms befragt. Die Auswahl der Befragten erfolgte durch eine mehrstufige Zufallsstichprobe im Rahmen der forsa-Mehrthemenumfrage (Politik-BUS) unter Einschluss von Festnetz- und Mobilfunknummern (Dual-Frame Stichprobe). Ergänzt wird die Befragung durch vier qualitative Online-Gruppendiskussionen, die Ipsos im Auftrag des BPA vom 5. bis 6. August 2025 mit insgesamt 24 in Deutschland lebenden, deutschsprachigen Personen durchgeführt hat. Der Ergebnisbericht zu dieser qualitativen Studie liegt dem Archiv vor, nicht jedoch die entsprechenden Daten.Entwicklungen in Deutschland, die am meisten Sorgen bereiten (offene Frage, 2 Nennungen); in der Bundesregierung wird in wichtigen Fragen zu viel, zu wenig oder gerade richtig gestritten; Beurteilung der derzeitigen wirtschaftlichen Lage in Deutschland; Beurteilung des Einsatzes der Bundesregierung bei der Bewältigung der wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen (tut genug, sollte mehr tun, sollte sich eher zurückhalten); Wahrnehmung des Investitionsprogramms der Bundesregierung zur Stärkung des Wirtschaftsstandorts Deutschland (Wachstumsbooster); Bekanntheit verschiedener Maßnahmen des Investitionsprogramms und Bewertung dieser Maßnahmen (Unternehmen sollen ihre Investitionen schneller von der Steuer absetzen können, Steuern für Unternehmen sollen schrittweise abgesenkt werden, der Kauf von E-Autos für Unternehmen soll gefördert werden, die Forschungszulage für Unternehmen soll ausgebaut werden); Investitionsprogramm wird die Wirtschaft in Deutschland voranbringen; Sicherheit des Arbeitsplatzes. Demographie: Geschlecht; Alter; Bildung; Erwerbstätigkeit; Parteipräferenz bei der nächsten Bundestagswahl; Wahlverhalten bei der letzten Bundestagswahl; Einkommenslage niedrig, mittel, hoch (Nettoäquivalenzeinkommen). Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: Region West/Ost; Bundesland; Gewichtungsfaktor

German Internet Panel, Wave 66 (July 2023)

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. Topics: Opinion on a reform of the German health care system; preferred measures for financing the health care system; preference for a general practitioner model or free choice of doctor; opinion on a reform of social security for the unemployed; conditions for receiving unemployment benefit II (Hartz IV); preferred scope of rules for the German labour market; opinion on a reform of the pension system; most and least preferred proposals for financing statutory pensions; opinion on a reform of the education system; preferred level of spending on the education system; most important area of education on which the federal government should spend more money and area of education on which less money should be spent in particular; opinion on a reform of the tax system; demand for government measures to reduce income disparities; acceptance of tax evasion; opinion on reforms to the labor market and social systems in the member states of the eurozone; opinion on the EU´s power to make decisions on reforms in the member states; policy areas in which the European Union should make more or should decide more or less than at present (foreign and security policy, economy and finance, justice and home affairs, labor and social affairs, competition policy, agriculture and fisheries, environment, education, other areas); areas in which the state should most likely expand and most likely reduce services (health services, basic security for the unemployed, job promotion for the unemployed, old-age pensions, education, childcare facilities, in none of these areas); impression in relation to a fictitious person with certain characteristics (religious affiliation, religiosity); assessment of the probability of getting a lost wallet back from the aforementioned fictitious persons. Demography: sex; age (year of birth, categorized); highest level of education; highest level of professional education; marital status; household size; employment status; German citizenship; frequency of private Internet use; federal state. Additionally coded were: respondent ID, GIP; household ID, GIP; person ID (within household); year of recruitment (2012, 2014, 2018); interview date; current online status; assignment to experimental groups. Questionnaire evaluation (interesting, varied, relevant, long, difficult, too personal); overall assessment of the survey; respondent made further comments on the questionnaire.Das German Internet Panel (GIP) ist eine langfristige Studie an der Universität Mannheim. Das GIP untersucht individuelle Einstellungen und Präferenzen, die in politischen und wirtschaftlichen Entscheidungsprozessen relevant sind. Zu diesem Zweck werden seit 2012 regelmäßig in ganz Deutschland über 3.500 Personen alle zwei Monate zu den verschiedensten Themen online befragt. Das GIP basiert auf einer Zufallsstichprobe der Allgemeinbevölkerung in Deutschland im Alter von 16 bis 75 Jahren. Die Studie startete 2012 und wurde 2014 und 2018 durch neue Teilnehmende ergänzt. Die Rekrutierung der Panel-Teilnehmenden wurde offline durchgeführt. Die GIP-Fragebögen decken eine Vielfalt von Themen ab, welche aktuelle Geschehnisse behandeln.Der Fragebogen enthält zahlreiche experimentelle Variationen in den Erhebungsinstrumenten. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der Studiendokumentation. Themen: Meinung zu einer Reform des deutschen Gesundheitssystems; präferierte Maßnahmen zur Finanzierung des Gesundheitssystems; Präferenz für ein Hausarztmodell oder freie Arztwahl; Meinung zu einer Reform der sozialen Sicherung von Arbeitslosen; Bedingungen für den Erhalt von Arbeitslosengeld II (Hartz IV); präferierter Umfang der Regeln für den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt; Meinung zu einer Reform des Rentensystems; am meisten und am wenigsten präferierte Vorschläge zur Finanzierung der gesetzlichen Renten; Meinung zu einer Reform des Bildungssystems; präferierter Umfang der Ausgaben für das Bildungssystem; wichtigster bzw. in Frage kommender Bildungsbereich, für den die Bundesregierung mehr Geld ausgeben sollte und Bildungsbereich, für den insbesondere weniger Geld ausgegeben werden sollte; Meinung zu einer Reform des Steuersystems; Forderung nach staatlichen Maßnahmen zur Verringerung der Einkommensunterschiede; Akzeptanz von Steuerhinterziehung; Meinung zu Reformen der Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialsysteme in den Mitgliedsstaaten der Euro-Zone; Präferenz für mehr oder weniger Entscheidungsbefugnis der Europäischen Union hinsichtlich dieser Reformen; Politikbereiche, in denen die Europäische Union mehr bzw. weniger Entscheidungsbefugnis haben sollte als derzeit; Politikbereich, in dem am ehesten Leistungen ausgebaut und abgebaut werden sollten; Eindruck in Bezug auf eine fiktive Person mit bestimmten Merkmalen (Religionszugehörigkeit, Religiosität); Einschätzung der Wahrscheinlichkeit, von den vorgenannten fiktiven Personen ein verloren gegangenes Portemonnaie zurückzubekommen. Demographie: Geschlecht; Alter (Geburtsjahr, kategorisiert); höchster Schulabschluss; höchster beruflicher Bildungsabschluss; Familienstand; Haushaltsgröße; Erwerbsstatus; deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit; Häufigkeit der privaten Internetnutzung; Bundesland. Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: Befragten- ID, GIP; Haushalts-ID, GIP; Personen-ID (innerhalb des Haushalts); Jahr der Rekrutierung (2012, 2014, 2018); Interviewdatum; derzeitiger Online-Status; Zuordnung zu Experimentalgruppen. Fragebogenevaluation (interessant, abwechslungsreich, relevant, lang, schwierig, zu persönlich); Beurteilung der Befragung insgesamt; befragte Person hat weitere Anmerkungen zum Fragebogen gemacht

German Internet Panel, Wave 67 - Core Study (September 2023)

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. Topics: Verification of recorded personal data of the respondent, such as surname, first name, sex, year of birth, mobile phone number and landline number (information correct or incorrect) and, if necessary, correction of previous information or addition of mobile phone number and landline number; German citizenship; household composition: age and sex of all household members and their relationship to the respondent; federal state of principal residence; highest educational degree; highest professional qualification; current (professional) activity; current or previous employment; current or last main employment status; current or last occupational status; working hours per week in case of self-employment; place of work; time limit of the current or last employment contract; current or previous employment in the public sector; economic sector; religion; self-assessment of religiousness; frequency of computer use besides the study Gesellschaft im Wandel; frequency of Internet usage; daily Internet usage; satisfaction with selected areas of life (family life, leisure time, financial situation and work); social activities: active or passive membership in selected organisations and associations (sports, music or cultural club, human rights, environmental or animal protection association, charity or aid organisation, religious or church organisation, youth, parents´ or senior citizens´ association, citizens´ initiative, professional association, trade union, political party); left-right self-placement; left-right party placement (CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Die Linke and AfD); party affiliation and party identification; financial situation: personal net income (classified); number of income contributing persons; respondent contributes to household income; net household income (classified); voting behaviour in the last federal election. Number of different statements agreed with (drink driving is not a small thing, violence against political opponents is sometimes justified, harsher penalties for crime should be introduced in Germany, it is understandable that some people evade taxes, the high salaries for managers are justified, public broadcasting fees benefit democracy, we would all be better off if we ate less meat, it is okay to use violence for some political goals); acceptance of political violence (intimidating a political opponent on the internet; removing a political opponent´s leaflets, event notices or election advertising, preventing other people from attending a political opponent´s event, shouting down a political opponent to prevent them from speaking, using violence to prevent a political opponent from speaking); agreement with statements about political violence (violence against political opponents is sometimes justified, it is okay to use violence for some political goals, do not agree with any of these statements). Demography: sex; age (year of birth, categorized); highest educational degree; highest professional degree; marital status; household size; employment status; German citizenship; frequency of private Internet usage; federal state. Additionally coded were: respondent ID; household ID, GIP; person ID (within the household); year of recruitment (2012, 2014, 2018); interview date; current online status; respondent did not provide information to verify recorded personal information. Questionnaire evaluation (interesting, varied, relevant, long, difficult, too personal); overall assessment of the survey; respondent made further comments on the questionnaire.Das German Internet Panel (GIP) ist eine langfristige Studie an der Universität Mannheim. Das GIP untersucht individuelle Einstellungen und Präferenzen, die in politischen und wirtschaftlichen Entscheidungsprozessen relevant sind. Zu diesem Zweck werden seit 2012 regelmäßig in ganz Deutschland über 3.500 Personen alle zwei Monate zu den verschiedensten Themen online befragt. Das GIP basiert auf einer Zufallsstichprobe der Allgemeinbevölkerung in Deutschland im Alter von 16 bis 75 Jahren. Die Studie startete 2012 und wurde 2014 und 2018 durch neue Teilnehmende ergänzt. Die Rekrutierung der Panel-Teilnehmenden wurde offline durchgeführt. Die GIP-Fragebögen decken eine Vielfalt von Themen ab, welche aktuelle Geschehnisse behandeln.Der Fragebogen enthält zahlreiche experimentelle Variationen in den Erhebungsinstrumenten. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der Studiendokumentation. Themen: Verifizierung gespeicherter persönlicher Angaben des Befragten wie Nachname, Vorname, Geschlecht, Geburtsjahr, Mobilfunknummer und Festnetznummer (Angaben korrekt oder nicht korrekt) und ggfls. Korrektur der bisherigen Angaben bzw. Ergänzung von Mobilfunknummer und Festnetznummer; deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit; Haushaltszusammensetzung: Alter und Geschlecht sämtlicher Haushaltsmitglieder und deren Beziehung zum Befragten; Bundesland des Hauptwohnsitzes; höchster allgemeinbildender Schulabschluss; höchster beruflicher Ausbildungs- oder Hochschulabschluss; derzeitige (berufliche) Tätigkeit; derzeitiger bzw. letzter Haupterwerbsstatus; derzeitige bzw. letzte berufliche Stellung; Arbeitsumfang bei Selbstständigkeit; Arbeitsort; zeitliche Befristung des derzeitigen bzw. letzten Arbeitsvertrages; derzeitige bzw. letzte Tätigkeit im öffentlichen Dienst; Wirtschaftsbereich; Konfession bzw. Glaubensrichtung; Selbsteinschätzung der Religiosität; Häufigkeit der Computernutzung außerhalb der Studie Gesellschaft im Wandel; Häufigkeit der Internetnutzung; tägliche Internetnutzung; Zufriedenheits-Skalometer für ausgewählte Lebensbereiche (Familienleben, Freizeit, finanzielle Situation und Arbeit); soziale Aktivitäten: aktive oder passive Mitgliedschaften in ausgewählten Organisationen und Vereinen (Sport-, Musik oder Kulturverein, Menschenrechts-, Umwelt- oder Tierschutzverein, Wohltätigkeitsverein oder Hilfsorganisation, religiöse oder kirchliche Organisation, Jugend, Eltern- oder Seniorenvereinigung, Bürgerinitiative, Berufsverband, Gewerkschaft, politische Partei); Links-rechts-Selbststufung (Skalometer); Links-rechts-Einstufung der Parteien CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Die Linke und Alternative für Deutschland (Skalometer); Parteineigung und Parteiidentifikation; finanzielle Situation: persönliches Netto-Einkommen (klassiert); Anzahl der Personen, die zum Haushaltseinkommen beitragen; Befragter trägt zum Haushaltseinkommen bei; Haushaltsnettoeinkommen (klassiert); Wahlverhalten bei der letzten Bundestagswahl. Anzahl verschiedener Aussagen, denen zugestimmt wird (Alkohol am Steuer ist keine Kleinigkeit, Gewalt gegen politische Gegner ist manchmal gerechtfertigt, in Deutschland sollten härtere Strafen für Verbrechen eingeführt werden, es ist verständlich, dass manche Leute Steuern hinterziehen, die hohen Gehälter für Manager sind gerechtfertigt, die öffentlichen Rundfunkgebühren kommen der Demokratie zugute, es würde uns allen besser gehen, wenn wir weniger Fleisch essen würden, für manche politischen Ziele ist es in Ordnung, Gewalt einzusetzen); Akzeptanz von politischer Gewalt (Einschüchterung eines politischen Gegners im Internet; Flugblätter, Veranstaltungshinweise oder Wahlwerbung des politischen Gegners entfernen, andere Leute am Besuch einer Veranstaltung des politischen Gegner hindern, einen politischen Gegner niederschreien, um ihn an einer Rede zu hindern, einen politischen Gegner mit Gewalt an einer Rede hindern); Zustimmung zu Aussagen zu politischer Gewalt (Gewalt gegen politische Gegner ist manchmal gerechtfertigt, für manche politischen Ziele ist es in Ordnung, Gewalt einzusetzen, stimme keiner dieser Aussagen zu). Demographie: Geschlecht; Alter (Geburtsjahr, kategorisiert); höchster Schulabschluss; höchster beruflicher Bildungsabschluss; Familienstand; Haushaltsgröße; Erwerbsstatus; deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit; Häufigkeit der privaten Internetnutzung; Bundesland. Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: Befragten-ID, GIP; Haushalts-ID, GIP; Personen-ID (innerhalb des Haushalts); Jahr der Rekrutierung (2012, 2014, 2018); Interviewdatum; derzeitiger Online-Status; Befragter hat keine Angaben zur Verifizierung gespeicherter persönlicher Angaben gemacht. Fragebogenevaluation (interessant, abwechslungsreich, relevant, lang, schwierig, zu persönlich); Beurteilung der Befragung insgesamt; befragte Person hat weitere Anmerkungen zum Fragebogen gemacht

German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) - Cumulation 1980-2023

The German General Social Survey (ALLBUS/GGSS) is a biennial trend survey based on random samples of the German population. Established in 1980, its mission is to monitor attitudes, behavior, and social change in Germany. Each ALLBUS cross-sectional survey consists of one or two main question modules covering changing topics, a range of supplementary questions and a core module providing detailed demographic information. Additionally, data on the interview and the interviewers are provided as well. Key topics generally follow a 10-year replication cycle, many individual indicators and item batteries are replicated at shorter intervals. The ALLBUS/GGSS Cumulation assembles all the time series in the ALLBUS program, i.e., the data set contains data for all questions that have been asked in at least two of the 23 ALLBUS surveys conducted to date. ALLBUS/GGSScompact is the freely available ALLBUS scientific-use-file. For data protection reasons, the data on migration history, age, occupation, and income are only included in coarsened form starting with ALLBUS/GGSS 2023. Moreover, as of 2023, data allowing regional breakdowns other than the differentiation between East and West Germany can no longer be included this data set, i.e. only the regional data in the variable eastwest is continued after 2021. The ALLBUS/GGSS data set includes the full range of anonymized demographic data and additional regional variables. This data set is available subject to the conclusion of a personal user agreement.1.) Economy 2.) Politics 3.) Social inequality 4.) Ethnocentrism and minorities 5.) Family 6.) Lifestyle and personality 7.) Health 8.) Religion and world view 9.) Personal and collective values 10.) Social networks and social capital 11.) Deviant behavior and sanctions 12.) ALLBUS-Demography 13.) Technical data, paradata and data on the interviewer 14.) Geographical data 15.) Added value 1.) Economy: assessment of the present and future economic situation in Germany and in one´s own federal state, assessment of present and future personal economic situation. 2.) Politics: satisfaction with the federal and state government, with German democracy and with the performance of the German political system (political support); basic political attitudes: self-placement on left-right continuum, placement of political parties on a left-right-continuum, political interest, party inclination; voting intention (Sonntagsfrage), participation in last federal elections, recall of vote in last federal elections, party-sympathy-scales, likelihood of voting for different political parties; political participation: personal participation and willingness to participate in selected forms of protest and other political activities, norms for political participation; frequency of discussing politics with friends, acquaintances, strangers, and family; political issues: attitudes towards nuclear energy, the death penalty for terrorists, towards the privatization of publicly owned companies; support for less government interference in the economy, for stricter environmental protection measures, for harsher punishment of criminals, for making social security government´s top priority, for a redistribution of income in favor of the common people; for the view that immigrants are good for the economy, for access to abortion without legal limitations, for more global free trade; attitude towards expanding or cutting budgets for social services and defense, perceived position of the federal government in these matters; democracy scale; populism scale: members of parliament must only be bound to the will of the people, politicians talk too much and do too little, ordinary citizens would make better representatives than professional politicians, political compromise is a betrayal of principles, the people should make the important political decisions, the people agree on what needs to happen politically, politicians only care about the rich and powerful; political knowledge questions (party affiliation of top-level politicians, functioning of democratic institutions etc.); political efficacy: perception of individual influence on politics, gap between politicians and citizens, self-assuredness with regard to political group work, too much complexity in politics, perception of politicians´ closeness to constituents, participation in the vote as a civic duty; perceived strength of conflicts between social groups; confidence in public institutions and organizations; identification with various political entities: identification with own municipality, the federal state, the old Federal Republic or the GDR, unified Germany and the EU; attitudes relating to the process of German unification: attitude towards the demand for increased willingness to make sacrifices in the West and more patience in the East, unification is advantageous, for East and West respectively, future of the East depends on the willingness of eastern Germans to make an effort, strangeness of citizens in the other part of Germany, performance pressure in the new states, attitude towards dealing with the Stasi-past of individuals, evaluation of socialism as an idea; evaluation of administration services and assessment of treatment by the administration; national pride and right-wing extremism: pride in German institutions and German achievements, pride in being a German, extremism scale. 3.) Social inequality: fair share in standard of living, self-assessment of social class and classification on a top-bottom-scale, evaluation of personal occupational success, comparison with father´s position and personal occupational expectations for the future, attitudes towards the German economic system and evaluation of policies supporting the welfare state, assessment of access to education, perceived prerequisites for success in society, income differences as incentive to achieve, acceptance of social differences, evaluation of personal social security, attitudes towards different ideas of social justice. 4.) Ethnocentrism and minorities: attitude towards the influx of different groups of immigrants; perceived consequences of presence of foreigners in Germany, attitudes towards refugees, treatment of foreigners by the administration, ranking in terms of importance of different citizenship requirements; scale of attitudes towards foreigners and contacts with foreigners (split: guest-workers) within the family, at work, in the neighborhood or among friends; opinion on dual citizenship and on equal rights for foreigners, support for the teaching of Islam in public schools, estimation of proportion of foreigners in East and West Germany and in the neighborhood where respondent lives, living in neighborhoods with high percentage of foreigners, perceived differences in lifestyle, indicators for social distance to ethnic minorities and foreigners, attitudes towards Islam (Islamophobia), support for Islam as a school subject, support for the building of mosques in Germany, attitudes towards Jews (Antisemitism scale), perception and evaluation of discriminatory behavior towards foreigners. 5.) Family: attitude towards marriage and having a family, ideal number of children, attitude towards employment of women and mothers, attitude towards the role of men and women in the family, division of labor regarding house and family work, importance of educational goals, most important educational goals in school, classification of the importance of certain educational aspirations for a child, desired characteristics of children. 6.) Lifestyle and personality: authoritarianism, importance of life aspects, preferred job characteristics (security, income, responsibility, etc.), free time activities; internet use: frequency and type of device; use of media (frequency of watching television over the week, taste in television programs, frequency of watching the news on tv and of reading a daily newspaper per week, musical preferences), mobile phone ownership. 7.) Health: overall health, physical and psychological shape during the last four weeks, health problems’ impact on everyday life, chronic illnesses, been sick in the last four weeks, reason for and frequency of seeing a doctor in the last three months, time spent in hospital during the last 12 months, officially recognized disability level, smoking habits, overall life satisfaction, height and weight, consumption of various foodstuffs and beverages, affectedness by unhealthy working conditions and by mobbing, perception of general environmental pollution and personally experienced environmental pollution, questions on AIDS (knowledge of the disease AIDS, attitudes towards AIDS-infected people, worry about personal AIDS infection, personal protective measures and behavioral changes, AIDS-infected people in one´s own circle of friends). 8.) Religion and world view: present and former religious affiliation, frequency of church attendance, frequency of attending other place of worship, importance of religion in parental home, frequency of prayer, participation in religious activities, frequency of meditation, interest in Christian programs in the media, self-assessment of religiousness and spirituality, religious cosmology and belief in God, religious beliefs, meaning of life, religious indifference, thinking about metaphysical questions, experience with and attitude towards different forms of belief, parabelief and superstition, religion vs. science, funeral by church, marriage in church, importance of religion in raising own children, baptism of children, attitude towards person with different faiths marrying into the family. 9.) Personal and collective values: materialism/postmaterialism (importance of law and order, fighting rising prices, free expression of opinions and influence on governmental decisions), individual value orientations (Klages), attitudes towards legalizing abortion. 10.) Social networks and social capital: ego-centered networks (number of contacts in network, information on: gender, age, kinship or type of relationship, employment status, occupational position, voting behavior, citizenship, mutual familiarity between contacts), membership in trade unions, trade associations, clubs, political parties or other organizations; frequency of spending time with colleagues from work, club members or with friends; interpersonal trust, social pessimism and orientation towards the future (anomia), reciprocity. 11.) Deviant behavior and sanctions: fear of crime, personal victimization, moral assessment of different behaviors, desire to sanction different criminal acts, desire to make various behaviors illegal, self-reported deviant behavior (past and future), assessment of probability of being caught committing various crimes, respect of the law, believe in deterrence through punishment, purposes of punishment, assessment of sentencing practices. 12.) ALLBUS-Demography: Details about the respondent: gender, age, citizenship(s) (nationality), number of citizenships, present and former religious affiliation, currently at school or university, school education, vocational training, employment status, secondary job, details about current and former occupation respectively, details about first occupation, date of termination of full- or part-time employment, fear of unemployment or loss of business, industrial sector, affiliation to public service, fixed-term or permanent employment contract, length of commute, driver’s license, supervisory functions, length of employment, size of workplace, working hours per week (primary and secondary job), length of unemployment, gaps in occupational biography, desire for work, marital status, marital biography. Details about personal and household income: respondent’s personal income, principal source of livelihood, capital income, household income, per capita income, equivalized income (OECD-modified scale), types of income in household, number of sources of income in household, principal source of income. Details about respondent’s current spouse: cohabitation before marriage, age, citizenship(s), number of citizenships, original citizenship, religious affiliation, school education, vocational training, university degree, employment status, details about current and former occupation respectively, affiliation to public service, date of termination of full- or part-time employment, length of unemployment, fear of unemployment or loss of business. Details about respondent’s former spouse: age, religious affiliation, school education, vocational training, details about current and former occupation respectively. Details about respondent’s steady partner: length of relationship, common household, age, citizenship(s), number of citizenships, original citizenship, school education, vocational training, university degree, employment status, details about current and former occupation respectively, affiliation to public service, fear of unemployment or loss of business, date of termination of full- or part-time employment. Details about respondent’s parents: cohabitation with respondent as adolescent, age of respondent when leaving parental home, religious affiliation, school education, vocational training, university education, details about parents’ occupation. Description of household: size of household, number of persons older than 17 in household (reduced size of household). Details about household members: family relation to respondent, gender, age, marital status, income; for children of respondent or partner also: school education, university degree. Details about children: number of children, deceased children, desire to have children. Details about children not living in the household: number of children not living in the household, gender, age, school education, university degree, baptism, religious affiliation. Migration, residential biography and living environment: original citizenship of respondent, country of origin, country of origin of parents and of grandparents, migration between East and West Germany, distance to last place of residence, length of residence, self-description of place of residence, type of dwelling, size of dwelling, telephone in household, cat or dog in the household, environmental nuisances in area of residence. 13.) Technical data, paradata and data on the interviewer: Study number, digital object identifier, versioning, respondent ID, sample point ID (starting with ALLBUS 2023 not available in ALLBUS/GGSScompact), split halves, survey mode of the ALLBUS interview, number of attempts to contact the respondent, contact strategy, beginning and end of interview (date and time), length of interview, willingness to participate, taken part in how many interviews, participation in other surveys over the past year, reachability of respondent, presence of respondent at home during the last few weekdays, presence of other persons during interview (spouse, partner or children during, other relatives), interference of other persons in the course of the interview, willingness to cooperate and reliability of information from respondent, respondent followed interview on screen, breaks during completion of questionnaire (survey mode MAIL), percentage of completed questions, willingness to participate in an online survey, willingness to participate in other survey, details about respondent’s residential building and its neighborhood, perceived attractiveness of respondent; details about the interviewer (identification number, gender, age, school education, length of experience as an interviewer). 14.) Geographical data: region of interview (East / West Germany), Boustedt-type of municipality, percentage of non-German residents at county level; starting with 2023 only available in the ALLBUS/GGSS data set: federal state, BIK-type of municipality; only available as part of the Sensitive Regional Data (ZA5260): size of municipality. 15.) Added value: Body-Mass-Index, Inglehart-index; life forms (Schulz and Mikrozensus Typology), family situation (Schulz), type of household; International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) 1968, 1988 and 2008; occupational prestige (according to Treiman), Standard International Occupational Prestige Scale (SIOPS, according to Ganzeboom), International Socio-economic Index of Occupational Status (ISEI, according to Ganzeboom), magnitude prestige (according to Wegener), International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 1997 and 2011, class position (according to Goldthorpe), European Socio-economic Groups (ESeG), per capita income, equivalized income (OECD-modified scale), transformation weight for analyses on household level or on individual level, east-west design weight.Die Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS) ist eine Trenderhebung, in der seit 1980 alle zwei Jahre eine Zufallsstichprobe der deutschen Bevölkerung befragt wird. Das primäre Ziel des Umfrageprogramms ist die Beobachtung von Einstellungen, Verhalten und sozialen Wandel in Deutschland. Jede ALLBUS-Querschnittserhebung besteht aus ein oder zwei Schwerpunkt-modulen zu wechselnden Themen. Diese werden ergänzt durch weitere inhaltliche Fragen und ein Kernmodul mit detaillierten demografischen Informationen. Zudem werden Zusatzinformation zum Interview und den Interviewern bereitgestellt. Die Schwerpunktmodule folgen in der Regel einem 10-jährigen Replikationszyklus, viele Einzelindikatoren und Itembatterien werden aber auch in kürzeren Abständen repliziert. Die ALLBUS Kumulation 1980-2023 versammelt alle Zeitreihen aus dem ALLBUS-Frageprogramm, d.h. der Datensatz enthält Daten für alle Fragen, die in wenigstens zwei der bisher 23 ALLBUS-Umfragen erhoben wurden. ALLBUScompact ist der frei verfügbare ALLBUS Scientific-Use-File. 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ALLBUS-Demographie 13.) Technische Daten, Para- und Interviewerdaten 14.) Regionaldaten 15.) Ergänzungen und abgeleitete Variablen 1.) Wirtschaft: Wahrnehmung der eigenen Wirtschaftslage und der aktuellen und zukünftigen Wirt-schaftslage in der Bundesrepublik und im eigenen Bundesland. 2.) Politik: Zufriedenheit mit der Bundesregierung, der Landesregierung, der deutschen Demokratie und mit dem Funktionieren des politischen Systems; Fragen zu politischen Einstellungen: Selbsteinstufung und Einstufung politischer Parteien auf einem Links-Rechts-Kontinuum, politisches Interesse, Parteineigung; Wahlabsicht (Sonntagsfrage), Wahlberechtigung, Wahlbeteiligung an der letzten Bundestagswahl, Wahlrückerinnerungsfrage, Sympathie-Skalometer für diverse Parteien; Wahrscheinlichkeit, diverse Parteien zu wählen; Politische Partizipation: Eigene Teilnahme bzw. Beteiligungsbereitschaft an ausgewählten Protest-formen, Normen für politische Partizipation, Häufigkeit von Politikgesprächen mit Familie, Freunden, Bekannten, und Fremden; Politische Sachfragen: Einstellungen zu Kernenergie, Todesstrafe für Terroristen, Privatisierung öf-fentlicher Betriebe, Freigabe von Abtreibung, Eingriffe der Politik in die Wirtschaft, Umweltschutz, härtere Bestrafung von Straftätern, Wichtigkeit sozialer Sicherung, Umverteilung von Einkommen, positive Auswirkungen von Einwanderern auf die Wirtschaft, Freihandel; Haltung zur Ausweitung oder Kürzung von Sozialleistungen, Einstellung zu einer Kürzung des Verteidigungsetats und perzipierte Haltung der Bundesregierung in solchen Fragen; Demokratieverständnis; Populismusskala: Abgeordnete nur dem Volk verpflichtet, Politiker reden zu viel und handeln zu wenig, einfache Bürger sind bessere Volksvertreter, politischer Kompromiss ist Verrat von Prinzipien, Volk sollte politische Entscheidungen treffen, Volk ist sich einig was politisch passieren muss, Politiker vertreten nur die Reichen; Politisches Wissensquiz (Parteizugehörigkeit von Spitzenpolitikern, Aufgabe und Funktion von Institu-tionen usw.); Politische Selbstwirksamkeit: Wahrnehmung von Einflussmöglichkeiten auf die Politik, bürgerferne Politiker, Selbstvertrauen in Bezug auf politische Gruppenarbeit, Befähigung der Mehrheit zu politi-scher Arbeit, zu viel Komplexität in der Politik, Bürgerorientierung Politiker; Perzipierte Stärke von Konflikten zwischen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen; Vertrauen in diverse Behörden und Institutionen; Nationale und regionale Verbundenheit: Verbundenheit mit der eigenen Gemeinde, mit dem Bundes-land, mit der alten Bundesrepublik bzw. mit der DDR, mit Gesamtdeutschland sowie mit der EU; Einstellungen zur Wiedervereinigung: Einstellung zur Forderung nach mehr Opferbereitschaft im Westen und mehr Geduld im Osten, Wiedervereinigung ist vorteilhaft für Westen bzw. Osten, Zukunft im Osten hängt von Leistungsbereitschaft der Ostdeutschen ab, wechselseitige Fremdheit der Bürger, Leistungsdruck in den neuen Bundesländern, Einstellung zum Umgang mit individueller Stasi-Vergangenheit, Ei

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This dataset accompanies a research project that conducts a corpus‑assisted critical discourse analysis of YouTube comments posted on the Cinema Therapy channel, specifically within the playlist “Coping with Coronavirus Quarantine.” The comments were retrieved using the researcher‑oriented YouTube Data Tool (YouTube Data API v3) and subsequently cleaned and filtered in Python, supplemented by manual verification. To comply with GDPR and institutional data protection guidelines, the final output does not include any original comment text from the year 2020. YouTube comments frequently contain personal narratives or identifiable contextual details, which makes them unsuitable for public release. Instead, the supporting materials include two Python scripts and a README file documenting the data collection, cleaning, and processing workflow. The purpose of the project is to examine how commenters position themselves within platform‑mediated therapeutic cultures by analyzing their linguistic patterns, critical discourses, and emotional expressions. In doing so, the project contributes to a more nuanced understanding of social‑media therapy audiences—one that recognizes them as interpretive, agentic participants in networked publics rather than uniformly passive, credulous, or happiness‑seeking consumers.</p

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