Full edition for scientific use. The Digitize! Online Panel Survey is an offline-recruited Austrian opinion survey which measures attitudes and behavior towards several social phenomena and issues. Topics include, amongst others, attitudes towards work, immigration, family, health, environment, and media behavior as well as opinions on political events or parties in Austria. The survey also consists of general issue items and socio-demographic variables.

Full edition for scientific use. The Social Survey Austria (SSÖ) is a survey representative of the Austrian population and has been conducted since 1986 in an inter-university research cooperative by sociologists from the universities of Graz, Linz, Salzburg, and Vienna. The Social Survey Austria 2023 is the 7th survey in which, in addition to an Austria-specific part, country-comparative survey modules of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) are also collected. In the SSÖ 2023, questions from two ISSP-modules, the module "Family and Changing Gender Roles V" (2022) and the module "National Identity & Citizenship" (2023), as well as questions on current social challenges in Austria were asked. Therefore, the first part of the questionnaire focused on questions about the employment of mothers, the division of care work, housework and parental leave in partnerships as well as family relationships. The second part of the questionnaire dealt with attitudes towards patriotism and nationalism, immigration to Austria and satisfaction with democracy in Austria. The SSÖ 2023 was financed by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and conducted within the framework of the project "Digitize! Computational Social Sciences in the Digital and Social Transformation" (project lead: University of Vienna) for the first time in a push-to-web design.

Reduced edition for public use. Full edition available for scientific use. This is open access data of the Austrian Social Survey 2016 and two modules of the ISSP. The Social Survey Austria (SSA) 2016 is a representative CAPI study that traces the changes in the attitudes, values and living conditions of the residential population of Austria. It is the fourth wave of a larger research project, that has been conducted since 1986.

Full edition for scientific use. The dataset comprises data of AUTNES manual content analysis of media coverage of the Austrian National Election held on 29 September 2019. This study is part of the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES).

Full edition for scientific use. This is the dataset of the sixth wave of the Austrian Social Survey that investigates changes in the social structure, living conditions, social attitudes and values of the residential population of Austria. In addition to the Austrian questionnaire part, the dataset includes the modules ISSP-2019 "Social Inequality V" and ISSP-2020 "Environment IV".

Full edition for scientific use. The Social Survey Austria (SSA) 2016 is a representative CAPI study that traces the changes in the attitudes, values and living conditions of the residential population of Austria. It is the fourth wave of a larger research project, that has been conducted since 1986.

Reduced open access edition. Full edition available for scientific use. The corona crisis has fundamentally changed the everyday life in Austria as well as in many other countries. However, people are affected in very different ways. Against this background, the Corona Panel Study aims to provide an overview of various health, economic and social aspects of the corona crisis.

Full edition for scientific use. Data set of the second wave of the Democracy Radar with data on attitudes towards democracy, politics and the political system in Austria and views on the societal as well as the individual situation. Main focus of this wave was the European Union. The Democracy Radar is an ongoing study of politics and democracy in Austria. It is based on a bi-annual survey with a sample of about 4500 respondents per wave. The Democracy Radar is part of the Austrian Democracy Lab (ADL), a project of the Danube University Krems and the University of Graz.

Full edition for scientific use. This is the dataset of the second wave of the Austrian Social Survey that investigates changes in the social structure, living conditions, social attitudes and values of the residential population of Austria. In addition to the Autrian questionnaire part, the dataset includes the modules ISSP-1991 "Religion" and ISSP-1992 "Social Inequality".

Full edition for scientific use. The data are based on a mapping project, conducted by AUSSDA. It identifies the potential users of the Austrian Social Science Data Archive and gives information on approximately 3000 Austrian social scientists. It details their empirical research agenda and if they teach classes on empirical methods.

Full edition for scientific use. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to various Online-Panel studies to study the social effects of the crisis. The Values in Crisis study stands out in three central aspects. First, it offers a differentiated perspective to study how basic values of Austrian citizens change during times of crises. Second, the VIC study is a global survey project (see https://doi.org/10.11587/LIHK1L) which enables to compare the effects of the pandemic in Austria with other countries in Europe and other world regions. Third, the study represents a comparative longitudinal study, measuring the effects of the pandemic in three survey waves called “inmidst the crisis”, “end at sight” and “overcoming the pandemic”. This new dataset “Values in Crisis Austria – Wave 1, Wave 2 and Wave 3 combined” includes the Austrian data of the first wave (May 2020), the second wave (March/April 2021) and the third wave (July 2022). It is possible to analyse the data of the three waves separately or to conduct longitudinal analysis (based on n = 747 respondents who took part in all three surveys).The study investigates basic values (measured with classical value concepts such as the Inglehart Index and the short Portraits Values Questionnaire by Shalom Schwartz) the exposure to the crisis, attitudes towards politics and perceptions on public health and social and economic consequences of the pandemic. We used the international master questionnaire of the comparative study, but we added in all three waves various Austrian specific questions about attitudes towards public restrictions, towards social distancing or Austrian views of a post-corona society. In wave 3 we included also questions on perceptions of social integration, susceptibility to COVID-related conspiracy theories as well as items on political ideology and ethnocentrism.

Full edition for scientific use. The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017 is a six-wave panel that focuses on the Austrian National Parliamentary Election held on 15 October 2017. This survey is part of the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES).

Full edition for scientific use. The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a heavy blow to many people’s lives and interrupted their normal course of life. The present study thus examines the impact of these changes upon people’s values and attitudes concerning work, partnership and models of femininity, politics, diversity and solidarity, and religion.

Full edition for scientific use. The main objective of this study was to give an estimate of the spread of COVID-19 (“Corona Virus”) among non-hospitalized people living in Austria. This study is the first in continental Europe based upon nationwide PCR-testing in a representative random sample. PCR samples were collected in the period of April 1 to April 6, 2020. Between April 6 and April 10, the tested persons were contacted again by telephone to collect further information, e.g. on their state of health and mobility patterns.

Full edition for public use. The data were collected for the empirical evaluation of a teacher education course on languages in education. The evaluation design consisted of a pre-test (n = 52) and a post-test (n = 35) with a Q-sorting activity in order to investigate pre-service teachers’ beliefs about multilingulism and linguistic diversity in education before and after their participation in a teacher education course on the topic.

Full edition for public use. The country image of Austria in comparison with Germany's and Switzerland's image in France 1989. The study evaluates Austria's image and its comparison countries - Germany and Switzerland – among educational elites and was part of the project »Austria's image in the world«. A method called »Non-verbal Image Measuring« was applied in this survey: In addition to verbal items, pictures and pieces of music were used to measure the images of the three countries.

Full edition for scientific use. The Austrian Foreign Policy Panel Project (AFP3) is a survey project of the University of Innsbruck and the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs (BMEIA) of the Republic of Austria. The project examines the level of knowledge as well as the attitudes and preferences of the Austrian population in the realm of foreign policy and international relations. It covers a broad range of issue-areas such as security policy, neutrality, foreign trade, migration and digitalization as well as Austria's status in the world and its relations to other countries. The survey is designed as a continuous long-term panel, in which one survey wave is carried out every year to identify long-term developments and the effects of current developments. Around 6400 Austrian citizens above the age of 18 were surveyed in two waves (2023 and 2024) using a web-based (CAWI) questionnaire. Survey participants are selected through non-probability quota-sampling.

Rating scales are used extensively in surveys. A rating scale can descend from the highest to the lowest point or from the positive to the negative pole. A rating scale can also start with the lowest point (or the negative pole) and ascend to the highest point (or the positive pole). Previous research has shown that the direction of the scale, i.e., the order of the response options, has an impact on responses, and that respondents are more likely to select response options close to the starting point of the scale, regardless of whether the scale starts with the lowest or the highest point. This paper advances the literature by examining empirically whether or not the response order effect in rating scale questions is driven by satisficing. Drawing on data from an experiment on five multi-item grids, we found that scale direction had a significant and extreme impact on response distributions. Although the effect of scale direction was stronger among speeders than non-speeders, the effect was observed across the board among those who were at a high risk of satisficing and those who were not.

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This study is devoted to an analysis of presentation format differences in factorial survey experiments by the example of fear of crime as conceptualized by criminological theories. Guided by approaches from the psychology of cognition, we aim at a systematic comparison of the processing of factorial survey experiments based either on written or visual vignettes. We conducted a cross-sectional web survey in 2014 among n = 1449 students of a German university. Within the framework of a split ballot-experiment, we varied the presentation format of vignettes which were part of a factorial survey experiment. The results of our study show that dropout rates do not differ between presentation formats while processing time and self-reported fatigue are reduced when using visual vignettes.