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FGZ Cohesion Panel: Wave 2 – Questions on climate change, antisemitism, and gender equality (English Version)

General Information:

*Note: The items were tested in German. These are English translations of the original German wordings.

Question Text:

And to what extent do you agree with the following statements?
[Und wie stehen Sie zu den folgenden Aussagen?]

Answer Categories:

Strongly disagree [Stimme überhaupt nicht zu]
Rather disagree [Stimme eher nicht zu]
Neither agree nor disagree [Teils-teils]
Rather agree [Stimme eher zu]
Strongly agree [Stimme voll und ganz zu]
In question 4, too, there were no respondents who left items unanswered for all three items and, as before, the entire range of the response scale was used. The majority of respondents agreed with the three statements. Agreement was particularly pronounced for items b (78%) and c (79%).
The purpose of the pretest was to investigate how the respondents justified their answers to the individual items and whether the justifications matched the selected answer option. The corresponding cognitive probes (N1_F3, see Appendix) were asked of the 124 test subjects in Group 1. About one third of these subjects were asked questions on items a, b, and c, respectively.
With the exception of a few test persons who did not give any evaluable answers to the cognitive follow-up questions, the reasons given by the respondents matched the answer they selected and no significant problems in comprehension could be identified.

Cognitive Techniques:

General Probing
Item Text Actively tested

Item Text:

a. I am concerned that immigration to Europe will increase because of climate change.
[Mir macht Sorgen, dass die Zuwanderung nach Europa wegen des Klimawandels zunehmen wird.]

Recommendations:

The results of the pretest do not indicate any problems with the item, so it can be left in its current form.
Yes

Item Text:

b. I am concerned that natural disasters will increase because of climate change.
[ Mir macht Sorgen, dass Naturkatastrophen wegen des Klimawandels zunehmen werden.]

Recommendations:

The results of the pretest do not indicate any problems with the item, so it can be left in its current form.
Yes

Item Text:

c. I am concerned that the biodiversity of animals and plants will decrease because of climate change.
[ Mir macht Sorgen, dass die Artenvielfalt von Tieren und Pflanzen wegen des Klimawandels abnehmen wird.]

Recommendations:

The results of the pretest do not indicate any problems with the item, so it can be left in its current form.
Yes