Attitudes and Reported Experiences of the German Welfare State: A Panel Study 2015 – 2016 – 2017
GESIS, Cologne. ZA7587 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13474
Abstract: The German Survey “Attitudes and Reported Experiences of the German Welfare State” is a joint project of the University of Duisburg-Essen, the University of Gothenburg, and the Institute for Social Research, Oslo. The data set has been developed with respect to an extensive comparability with a parallel study conducted in Norway (see Kumlin et al. 2017).
Starting in 2015, information of 3,393 respondents from a German population sample was collected in three annually repeated waves until 2017. The main interest of the data collection lies on the temporal change of the data, whereas the sampl ... more Content: Political participation in the last four years (participation in a demonstration, writing about political issues in a newspaper, online newspaper or blog, member of a political party, member of a trade union, member of another political organization); general social trust; group-related trust (Hartz IV recipients, richest people in Germany, people ... more Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 25.03.2015 - 21.07.2017
Date(s) of Data Collection: 25.03.2015 - 07.04.2015, wave 1 | 22.04.2016 - 20.05.2016, wave 2 | 09.06.2017 - 21.07.2017, wave 3
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE)
Universe: German citizens aged 18 and over who were registered in YouGov Germany´s pool of people willing to be interviewed at the time of the interview.
Number of Units: 3393
Sampling Procedure: • Non-probability: Quota;
The target group of the survey comprises the entire German resident population aged 18 and older, which is part of YouGov´s potential pool of potentially surveyable persons. It should be noted that the rule for drawing the sample follows a quota procedure in which the characteristics age, gender and the federal state det ... more Temporal Research Design: Longitudinal: Panel Analysis Unit: Individual Mode of Data Collection: • Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI);
Data Collector: YouGov Deutschland GmbH, Köln
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 341
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Goerres, Achim - Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Duisburg-Essen | Kumlin, Staffan - Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
Publication year: 2022
DOI: 10.4232/1.13474
Study number: ZA7587
Contributor, Institution, Role: Elis, Jonas - Universität Duisburg-Essen - ProjectMember
Publisher: GESIS
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, 2022-07-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13474
Version history: ... more Reference publications
Publications: Goerres, A., Spies, D.C. & Kumlin, S. (2018). The Electoral Supporter Base of the Alternative for Germany. Swiss Political Science Revue, 24, 246-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12306
| Goerres, A., Karlsen, R., & Kumlin, S. (2020). What Makes People Worry about the Welfare State? A Three-Country Experiment. British Journal of Political ... more Study group: GESIS Community Data |
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