The study on security and crime in Saxony 2022 was conducted by Infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft on behalf of the Saxon Institute for Police and Security Research (SIPS). During the survey period from 27.04.2022 to 02.08.2022, the Saxon resident population aged 16 and over was asked about fear of crime and its causes in online interviews (CAWI) and in writing (self-completed questionnaire: paper). In addition to complex measurements of the perception of safety (personal/social, affective/cognitive/conative), including the fear of extremism and political crime, the survey covered the experience of being a victim, trust in various institutions, political participation behavior, the Big Five personality dimensions, the socio-demographics of the respondents and many other variables. The respondents were selected by means of a multi-stage random sample from the registers of the residents´ registration offices of selected municipalities. In order to enable small-scale analyses, a regional dataset is provided in addition to the main dataset. It contains coarsened socio-demographics and numerous regional macro variables (demographic and economic indicators, crime recorded by the police, density of clubs, etc.). The two data sets cannot be linked with each other. Further information can be found in the documentation of the study.

The study on security and crime in Saxony 2022 - main dataset - was conducted by Infas Institute for Applied Social Science on behalf of the Saxon Institute for Police and Security Research (SIPS). In the survey period from 27.04.2022 to 02.08.2022, the Saxon resident population aged 16 and over was asked about fear of crime and its causes in online interviews (CAWI) and in writing (self-completed questionnaire: paper). In addition to complex measurements of the perception of safety (personal/social, affective/cognitive/conative), including the fear of extremism and political crime, the survey covered the experience of being a victim, trust in various institutions, political participation behavior, the Big Five personality dimensions, the socio-demographics of the respondents and many other variables. The respondents were selected by means of a multi-stage random sample from the registers of the residents´ registration offices of selected municipalities. In order to enable small-scale analyses, a regional dataset is provided in addition to the main dataset. It contains coarsened socio-demographics and numerous regional macro variables (demographic and economic indicators, crime recorded by the police, density of clubs, etc.). The two data sets cannot be linked with each other. Further information can be found in the documentation of the study.

The study on security and crime in Saxony 2022 - main dataset - was conducted by Infas Institute for Applied Social Science on behalf of the Saxon Institute for Police and Security Research (SIPS). In the survey period from 27.04.2022 to 02.08.2022, the Saxon resident population aged 16 and over was asked about fear of crime and its causes in online interviews (CAWI) and in writing (self-completed questionnaire: paper). In addition to complex measurements of the perception of safety (personal/social, affective/cognitive/conative), including the fear of extremism and political crime, the survey covered the experience of being a victim, trust in various institutions, political participation behavior, the Big Five personality dimensions, the socio-demographics of the respondents and many other variables. The respondents were selected by means of a multi-stage random sample from the registers of the residents´ registration offices of selected municipalities. In order to enable small-scale analyses, a regional dataset is provided in addition to the main dataset. It contains coarsened socio-demographics and numerous regional macro variables (demographic and economic indicators, crime recorded by the police, density of clubs, etc.). The two data sets cannot be linked with each other. Further information can be found in the documentation of the study.
1. Residential area: Social cohesion in the residential area in terms of mutual help, trust, shared values and respect for law and order; feeling of safety at night and during the day in the residential area; assessment of various impairments of the residential area (salience: Litter lying around, bulky waste left without permission, graffiti, unkempt front gardens or green spaces, dog excrement on sidewalks and green spaces, vandalism, broken lighting on streets or in parks, discarded syringes or needles on streets and sidewalks); frequency of perception of these impairments in the last 12 months; assessment of social problems in the residential area (groups of young people standing or sitting around, homeless people or beggars, noise on the street, drug addicts or drug dealers, fights or (groups of young people standing or sitting around, homeless or beggars, noise on the street, drug addicts or drug dealers, fights or brawls, adult cyclists, inline skaters and roller skaters on sidewalks, loose and stray dogs, public urination, illegal parking); frequency of perception of these social problems in the last 12 months.

1. Crime in Saxony and own security (based on the last 12 months): Crime development in Saxony in general; assessment of this development; development of various crimes (theft, burglary, assault, murder, fraud outside the Internet, damage to property, sexual abuse, blackmail, stalking, sexual harassment, Internet crimes in general, insults, coercion and threats in social media, terrorist attacks, drug-related crime, crimes near the border with Poland or the Czech Republic, crimes against public officials or rescue workers, crimes against politicians); fear of crime with regard to the aforementioned offenses; assessment of the risk of becoming a victim of various offenses (e.g. assault, burglary in apartment or house, robbery, theft, etc.); avoidance behavior (avoid certain streets, squares and parks, avoid people who appear threatening, take detours, avoid walking alone in the dark, carry repellents with me, secure my home, avoid expressing political opinions at public events/on social media, avoid spreading political content on social media).

2. Politically motivated crime and extremism: Assessment of the threat to the democratic order in Germany posed by right-wing extremism, left-wing extremism and Islamic extremism; concerns about right-wing extremism, left-wing extremism and Islamic extremism in Germany; in each case in relation to the last 12 months: development of politically motivated crime in Germany and Saxony in the areas of right-wing extremism, left-wing extremism and Islamic extremism; assessment of the development of politically motivated crime in Germany and in Saxony in the aforementioned areas.

3. Experience of discrimination and crime (based on the last 12 months): Victims of discrimination based on various characteristics (religion, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, disability or impairment, skin color, origin, age, political attitudes, social status, other characteristic, other characteristic open mention); victim experience in Saxony (attacked by a person without a weapon, attacked by a person with a weapon or several persons with or without a weapon, sexually harassed, sexually abused or raped, unwanted messages with sexual content, insulted on social media, internet offense, pain or physical harm on the internet or social media/ outside the internet or social media, robbery, pickpocketing without violence, theft without violence, burglary, stalking, damage to property, fraud outside the Internet, other,...