Welcome to the German Internet Panel

The German Internet Panel (GIP) is a long-term longitudinal study at the University of Mannheim. The GIP researches individual attitudes and preferences that are relevant in political and economic decision-making processes. For this purpose, more than 3,500 people across Germany are regularly interviewed online on wide range of topics since 2012. State-of-the-art scientific methods are used to ensure an accurate representation of the general population in Germany.

The GIP originated as a central infrastructure project of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 884 “Political Economy of Reforms” and was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2010 to 2021.

On these pages you will find information about us, our work, and how you can access and use our data.

The Mannheim Corona Study

The Mannheim study on the impact of the Corona pandemic on society ran from March 20 to July 10, 2020, for a total of 16 weeks. During this time, we collected daily data on the current situation in Germany. In detailed analyses and long-term studies as a part of the GIP, we are investigating how the pandemic and measures undertaken to contain it have affected life in Germany.

Read more about the results of the study. The data are available for scientific research.

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Recent Publications

Gummer, Kunz, Rettig, & Höhne 2023

How To Detect and Influence Looking Up Answers to Political Knowledge Questions in Web Surveys?

Rettig, Blom & Höhne 2022

Memory Effects: A Comparison Across Question Types

Felderer & Herzing 2022

What about the Less IT Literate? A Comparison of Different Postal Recruitment Strategies to an Online Panel of the General Population

Revilla et al. 2022

Differences in measurement quality depending on recall: results for a question about trust in the parliament

Overview of the GIP

About Us

Here you can find out more about our work and the GIP team.

Infos for Data Users

Here you can find our questionnaires and our data.

Results

On this page we present selected results of our surveys.

Press

Are you a media representative? These pages contain information for you.