In 2023, there were around 16.5 million people in the German-speaking population, aged 14 years and older, who were particularly interested in politics. Around 12.4 million people saw themselves as somewhat of an expert and often gave advice on political topics. In contrast, around 21 percent stated that they were barely interested in politics at all. However, in total, almost half of the respondents were somewhat interested in politics. The Allensbach Market and Advertising Media Analysis (Allensbacher Markt- und Werbeträgeranalyse or AWA in German) determines attitudes, consumer habits and media usage of the population in Germany on a broad statistical basis.

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The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.

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The surveys vary, but topics covered over time include: voting intention; satisfaction with: the Government, the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, the political system and institutions; opinions on problems facing Government; the political parties; voting and electoral behaviour; foreign affairs and defence; economic and industrial affairs; social issues (e.g. welfare, education, health, housing, environment); law, crime and justice; religious beliefs; role of women; race relations; attitudes to pornography, birth control, family planning, marriage, abortion, drugs, gambling, leisure; special issues and events. Please note that not every topic is covered in all surveys.

Classification details include: constituency, age and sex, terminal education age, marital status, social class, trade union membership and employment status.

This survey, conducted April-July 1997, is part of a series of surveys designed to assess political continuity and change across time for biologically related generations. The focus of this survey was to assess political continuity and change between the respondents that were part of the youth generation in the original youth-parent study, STUDENT-PARENT SOCIALIZATION STUDY, 1965 (ICPSR 7286), and their offspring ages 15 and older. Respondents were polled on the accessibility, responsiveness, trustworthiness, and comprehensibility of the government and politicians, the importance of free speech and assembly, and the influence of interest groups in politics. Respondents were asked to rate the degree to which politicians were liberal or conservative on a scale of 1 to 7. Information was gathered on whether respondents voted in the 1996, 1992, and 1988 presidential elections and for whom they voted, whether respondents were involved in political and/or community activism, whether they performed any volunteer work, their level of Internet access and proficiency, their ratings of labor unions, activist groups, and politicians, whether they had tried to influence the political or social views of others, and their opinions on the role of the United States in world affairs. Respondents' views were also elicited about the role of political parties in the United States, the rights of criminals, the legalization of marijuana, their standard of living compared to that of their parents, equal rights measures concerning ethnicity, sexual orientation, and sex, and whether most people can be trusted, are helpful, and are fair. Respondents were polled on their life habits and were asked to give their opinions on issues such as whether the United States should have been involved in the Vietnam War, women in the workplace, the relevancy and accuracy of the Bible, and prayer in school. Background variables include age, sex, religious orientation, level of religious participation, marital status, ethnicity, educational status and background, and employment status.

This study is part of the American National Election Study (ANES), a time-series collection of national surveys fielded continuously since 1948. The American National Election Studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. As with all Time Series studies conducted during years of presidential elections, respondents were interviewed during the two months preceding the November election (Pre-election interview), and then re-interviewed during the two months following the election (Post-election interview). Like its predecessors, the 2020 ANES was divided between questions necessary for tracking long-term trends and questions necessary to understand the particular political moment of 2020. The study maintains and extends the ANES time-series 'core' by collecting data on Americans' basic political beliefs, allegiances, and behaviors, which are so critical to a general understanding of politics that they are monitored at every election, no matter the nature of the specific campaign or the broader setting. This 2020 ANES study features a fresh cross-sectional sample, with respondents randomly assigned to one of three sequential mode groups: web only, mixed web (i.e., web and phone), and mixed video (i.e., video, web, and phone). The new content for the 2020 pre-election survey includes coronavirus pandemic, election integrity, corruption, impeachment, immigration and democratic norms. The pre-election survey also includes protests and unrest over policing and racism. The new content for the 2020 post-election survey includes voting experiences, anti-elitism, faith in experts or science, climate change, gun control, opioids, rural-urban identity, international trade, transgender military service, social media usage, misinformation, perceptions of foreign countries and group empathy. Phone and video interviews were conducted by trained interviewers using computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) software on computers. Unlike in earlier years, the 2020 ANES did not use computer-assisted self interviewing (CASI) during any part of the interviewer-administered modes (video and phone). Rather, in interviewer-administered modes, all questions were read out loud to respondents, and respondents also provided their answers orally. Demographic variables include respondent age, education level, political affiliation, race/ethnicity, marital status, and family composition.

Representative survey on factual knowledge about politics in Germany (2009): political structures, institutions, functions, parties and politicians, issues in Germany and the EU.

I. German respondents: Topics: German citizenship; further citizenship; opinion on the idea of democracy; satisfaction with democracy; satisfaction with the achievements of the federal government of the CDU / CSU and the achievements of the opposition; solidarity with Germany and its citizens; satisfaction with the EU membership of Germany; repetition of recollected words read by the interviewer; knowledge 10% discount to 1000 euros; interest in politics; frequency of political talks in the circle of friends; opinion on politics (great knowledge about politics, willingness to take an active role in political group, politician does not care what simple people think, parties try to represent voters interests, elections as a good way to take part in political decision-making, political institutions in the FRG offer too little possibilities of political influence, regularly informing about political proceedings, leaving politics to elected representatives, politics very important, politics not important in one´s life - 3 fixed rotation variants of the items); quiz questions about politics (rotation of the question for all random questions): federal constitution (all power emanates from the people); task of the Federal Council; age for admission as a candidate for the Bundestag; number of care categories of the long-term care insurance; group represented by trade unions in Germany; elections for EU citizens living in Germany without German citizenship; current expenditure of federal budget; unemployment rate in Germany; share of the working women in the labor market; dynamic retirement; amount of foreigners in Germany; the percentage of the gross domestic product used for development aid; aim of the Adenauer government with regard to the Hallstatt doctrine; number of EU member countries; the Bologna process; regulations of the Copenhagen criteria; the European Anti-Discrimination Directive; party affiliation of selected top politicians; beginning of the German national anthem.

Political participation; left-right self-assessment; opinion on various political issues (extending the municipal electoral law for non-EU foreigners, extending the duration of German nuclear power plants, removing social services and strengthening the participation of citizens, full EU-membership of Turkey); presumed position of the parties CDU / CSU, SPD, FDP, Bündnis90 / Die Grünen and Die Linke to the above-mentioned topics; reception frequency of political news on television per week; reception frequency of political articles in weekly or monthly journals (e.g. der Spiegel); reception frequency of political magazines on television (e.g. Monitor); membership in a professional association, a trade union, a party, a non-governmental organization (e.g. Greenpeace) or an association (e.g. sports club); function in this organization; party inclination; party preference (Sunday question).

Demographics: month of birth; year of birth; highest school graduation; desired school graduation (pupils only); employment; current activity if not employed; previous employment; current vocational training; current or previous occupational position; specification workers, employees, civil servants; religious community; marital status; living with a partner; household size; persons affected by unemployment in the household; self-assessment of social stratum; respondents from 18 years of age: social stratum of the parents, the frequency of political talks in the family circle and with peers in the childhood and adolescents (respondents aged 14-17 years: currently); frequency of political topics in school lessons; party who opposed the proposal to abolish policy lessons at schools; (only main study: opinion on the proposed abolition of policy lessons at schools, party that has proposed the abolition); net household income (open and categorized); gender; German citizenship since birth; youth in West Germany, East Germany or in another country; year of migration to the territory of today´s Germany.

Additionally coded was: sentence or pagination number; federal state; BIK-type of municipality; date of interview; duration of the interview in minutes; data version (pretest, main survey); weighting factor; sex and age of the interviewer.

II. Turkish respondents: (Differing questions or questions only asked in the Turkish study)

Topics: birth in Germany or immigrated from Turkey; parents or grandparents immigrated to Germany; age when immigrated to Germany; permanently resident in Germany or resident in Turkey or another country for a long time; solidarity with Turkey and its citizens; priority interest in German or Turkish politics; proportion of persons of German origin in the circle of friends and acquaintances; the institution who defines school politics in Germany;...

This statistic shows the result of a survey on the development of political support for the Left Alliance in Finland as of May 2019, compared to the parliamentary elections in 2019 and municipal elections in 2017. According to the survey, the support for the Left Alliance had decreased slightly since the parliamentary elections elections, amounting to eight percent in the opinion poll of May 2019.

According to a survey from late December 2024, the two most important issues among Republican voters in the United States were inflation and immigration, with 25 and 22 percent ranking it their primary political concerns respectively. In contrast, only two percent of Democrats considered immigration their most important issue. Inflation and healthcare were the leading issues among democrats in the U.S.

This panel study is part of a series of surveys designed to assess political continuity and change across time for biologically related generations and to gauge the impact of life-stage events and historical trends on their behaviors and attitudes. The purpose of this study was to obtain social, political, and economic information from the "youth" portion of the socialization panel study, which began in 1965 with a national sample of high school seniors, and from their offspring aged 15 and older as of 1997. This data collection combines the two sources of data in the form of parent-child pairs, with one key objective being the analysis of influence relationships within the family. The dataset is explicitly designed to facilitate the use of parent-child pairs as the units of analysis. The parent portion includes 478 cases, omitting the 457 cases (49 percent of the 935 total) for which there were no eligible offspring or where the offspring could not be located, did not receive the self-administered questionnaires (SAQ), or elected not to complete it. See YOUTH-PARENT SOCIALIZATION PANEL STUDY, 1965-1997: YOUTH WAVE IV, 1997 (ICPSR 4023) for the data file containing all of the Wave IV cases. The Offspring portion (the third generation) includes 769 cases and can be used in and of itself, but it omits 10 cases that could not be linked with a particular parent. See NATIONAL SURVEY OF THIRD GENERATION MEMBERS OF THE YOUTH-PARENT POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION STUDY, 1997 (ICPSR 3926) for a data file containing all cases. Collection of SAQ data from the offspring was dependent upon their parents' supplying the correct locations of their eligible offspring. Background variables include age, sex, religious orientation, level of religious participation, marital status, ethnicity, educational status and background, place of residence, family income, and employment status.

This study is part of a time-series collection of national surveys fielded continuously since 1952. The election studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. In early 1982, the National Election Studies obtained additional support from the National Science Foundation for a systematic study comparing survey data collected through traditional methods (household sampling and personal interviewing) with data collected by random-digit dial (RDD) telephone sampling using computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). This study took place in conjunction with the previously funded 1982 National Election Study of congressional elections. The broad purposes of the data collection were to permit the NES staff and user community to assess overall differences between the two data collection techniques in sample and measurement quality, and to carry out a series of additional methodological experiments concerned with question format, computer-assisted procedures, and survey organization. Telephone respondents were administered a somewhat abbreviated version of the in-person interview schedules, adapted for use over the telephone where appropriate. All interviews were conducted in the three months following the 1982 elections. In this collection, data from the Methods Comparison Project have been merged with AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1982: POST-ELECTION SURVEY FILE (ICPSR 9042), in order to facilitate the work of those who wish to make comparisons of telephone and personal interview methods. The inclusion of personal interview data in the present dataset is not intended for substantive analytic use. An extensive introduction to the documentation provides essential information and cautionary notes for potential analysts.

For this survey, conducted following the 1968 Italian parliamentary elections, a representative stratified national sample was drawn from lists of voters in electoral precincts across the country. Interviews were conducted with 2,500 respondents about their political behavior and attitudes, party identification, and union and other organizational memberships. The influence of family and religious ties on political attitudes and behavior was probed, as were the effects of the multi-party structure and the impact of the mass media on Italian political life. Respondents were asked to place the different political parties along a left-right continuum and to place themselves along this continuum as well. This study also included interviews, conducted at the same time as the mass election survey, with a small elite sample of deputies and municipal councillors, but ICPSR does not distribute these data. Demographic information about respondents includes age, occupation, full-time work status, and occupation and political beliefs of father.

The first ECPR-IPSA World of Political Science survey (WPS-2019), conducted in conjunction with the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) and the International Political Science Association (IPSA), was implemented by Pippa Norris in spring 2019. This second study, WPS-2023, seeks to update the evidence, to pursue new themes, and to provide a representative profile of the political science profession across the globe. It has been designed to gather information about multiple aspects within the discipline, including 1. Nation of current work or study; 2. Academic work experiences, satisfaction, and perceptions; 3. Ideological values; 4. Equality, diversity and inclusion within the discipline; 5. Experience and perceptions of academic freedom; 6. Preferences for in-person or online communications; 7. Their background characteristics, including socio-demographic, educational qualifications, institutional contexts, methods and sub-fields; 8. Academic geographic mobility; and 9. The macro-level national context of academic and media freedom within each society of work or study, from V-Dem 13.0. Overall 1,989 valid responses were collected online between 29 November 2022 and 31 January 2023. This included replies from respondents who were political scientists currently studying or working in 103 countries worldwide.

In a survey from January 2022, Swedes responded that they have the highest trust in the Moderate Party on the national defense policy. Around one in four of the respondents trusted the Moderate Party the most on this field. The second highest trust was given in the Social Democrats, who currently leads the Swedish Government, followed by the right-wing party Sweden Democrats. Moreover, 37 percent did not trust any of the parties with national defense or did not know who they trust the most.

This statistic shows the results of a survey on the most important factor to consider when deciding which party to vote for in the upcoming parliamentary election on September 11, 2017, by party. For 89 percent of voters who intend to vote for Miljøpartiet De Grønne, the ideology and values of the party are considered as the most important factor. Individual factors are only important for seven percent of the MDG voters. Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) is elected every four years. The next parliamentary election is set for September 11, 2017.

The 2019 survey by IPSOS showed that 84 percent of Russians strongly or somewhat agreed that free trade was beneficial for their country's economy. The second most supported statement was that the domestic political system was under control of a corrupt elite, as per 70 percent of respondents. Only one quarter of survey participants from Russia agreed that their national political system well represented interests and views of its citizens.

Public opinion data. Surveys were carried out in representative samples of inhabitants between 15 and 74 in the following countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia. Questions include trust in political institutions, support for democracy, attitudes to immigrants and refugees, attitudes to socioeconomic conditions.

The Youth Participatory Politics Survey Project (YPPSP) includes questions that examined the quantity, quality, and equality of youth new media practices; as well as political and civic attitudes, behavior, and engagement (collectively referred to as "participatory politics"). The study was conducted in three waves between 2011 and 2015, and this dataset includes respondents who completed both second and third waves (2013 and 2015, respectively). A total of 1,033 respondents, who were between the ages of 15 and 27 in 2013, completed both waves. The wave 2 survey collected data from 2,343 respondents ages 15-27. The survey was administered from July 2013 to November 2013 and June 2015 to November 2015 by the survey vendor Growth from Knowledge (GfK) Group. The 2013 survey was administered online and by telephone, and the 2015 survey was administered online. The survey included oversamples of African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino respondents. The survey asked questions about political and civic attitudes, media practices, community involvement, political engagement, news sources, and social influences. Demographic variables include age, race, education, income, and gender.

This poll is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Interviews were conducted with respondents in each state as they left their polling places on election day, November 6, 1984. Respondents were asked about their vote for president, political party identification, and opinions on several issues such as the United States budget deficit, national tax policies, and characteristics of the candidates that influenced voting decisions. The survey also includes state-specific questions that were only asked of voters in that state. Respondents were asked for their marital status, veteran status, religion, income, and whether they were a government employee or a school teacher.

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