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Soziales Verhalten und soziale Einstellungen
Internationale Politik und Internationale Organisationen
Politisches Verhalten und politische Einstellungen
Regierung, politische Systeme, Parteien und Organisationen
Gleichheit, Ungleichheit und soziale Ausgrenzung
Wirtschaftspolitik, öffentliche Ausgaben und Einnahmen
International politics and organisations
Government, political systems and organisations
Equality, inequality and social exclusion
Economic policy, public expenditure and revenue
The Thüringen-Monitor is a representative population survey on political culture in the Free State of Thuringia that has been held annually since 2000. It contains fixed and changing questions. The Thuringia Monitor is commissioned by the Thuringian State Chancellery (Erfurt). A particular focus is on research into right-wing extremist attitudes, acceptance of democracy, satisfaction with democracy and the institutional trust of the Thuringian population. The basic population is the electorate of the Free State of Thuringia. By 2022, a total of 22 survey waves with at least 1,000 respondents each were carried out in the trend design by changing survey institutes (CATI, random sampling according to the Gabler-Häder design). No survey took place in 2009. From 2012, the data were weighted according to the Thuringian State Statistical Office with regard to age, gender, education and household size (IPF weighting). In the 2024 Thuringia Monitor, the previous representative landline survey (CATI) was converted to a combined dual-mode design of landline (CATI) and online survey (CAWI). Between 2000 and 2024, a total of 1,438 different variables were collected in the Thuringia Monitor, which can be assigned to the following categories: 1 Deprivation/Anomy/Satisfaction 2 Thuringia/Identity/German Unity 3 Politics/Democracy/Institutions/Actors 4 Right-wing extremism/attitude towards migration/minorities 5 GDR/Socialism 6 Social State/Market Economy/Ecology 7 Social problems 8 Values 9 Family/education and education/generational relations 10 Internationalization/Europeanization/Cultural Competence 11 Health and care 12 Covid-19 Pandemic 13 City and country 14 Environment and climate 15 Transformation of the working world The series of measurements on right-wing extremist attitudes is based on ten consent items (with four-step response scales) and begins in 2001. According to the consensus definition of right-wing extremism, it covers the following attitudinal dimensions: xenophobia, nationalism/chauvinism, social Darwinism, trivialisation of National Socialism, anti-Semitism and advocacy of a right-wing dictatorship (vgl. Heinrich Best / Katja Salomo (2014): Güte und Reichweite der Messung des Rechtsextremismus im THÜRINGEN-MONITOR 2000 bis 2014. Expertise für die Thüringer Staatskanzlei. Erfurt.)
Infratest dimap, Bonn (2000 bis einschließlich 2008); aproxima, Weimar (2010); Forschungsgruppe Wahlen Telefonfeld, Mannheim (2011); Institut für Soziologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (seit 2012)
Schmitt, K., Best, H., & Reiser, M. (2025). Thüringen-Monitor 2000-2024 (ZA6345; Version 9.0.0) [Data set]. GESIS, Cologne.
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