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

Abstract:

The Cohesion Panel of the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (ZHP-FGZ) provides a database for systematic analyses of the relationship between socio-economic living conditions, individual lifestyles, group- and society-related attitudes and values of the population and their political orientations and behaviors.
The subject of this pretest are questions about climate change, antisemitism and gender equality that were developed for the second wave of the ZHP-FGZ.
The questions were tested in a cognitive online pretest via web probing.

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

Citation:

Lenzner, T., Schick, L., Hadler, P., Behnert, J., Steins, P. & Neuert, C. (2022): FGZ Cohesion Panel: Wave 2 – Questions on climate change, antisemitism, and gender equality (English Version). Cognitive Online Pretest. GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

DOI:

10.17173/pretest129

Question No.	Pretesting Results	Type	Construct
1	How important do you personally consider combating climate change?	Single Question	Importance of combating climate change
2	Currently, there is a lot of discussion about climate policy (i.e., policy decisions made because of climate change). To what extent do you agree with the following statements?	Multi-Item Scale	Concerns: Impact of climate policy
3	And to what extent do you agree with the following statements?	Multi-Item Scale	Concerns: Impact of climate change
4	To what extent do you agree with the following statements about climate change?	Multi-Item Scale	Attitudes towards climate change
5	To what extent do you feel affected by the following extreme weather events where you live?	Multi-Item Scale	Affected by climate change
6	To what extent do you feel affected by infrastructure (e.g., highways, railroad tracks, power lines) where you live?	Single Question	Undesirable infrastructures
7	Has the impairment increased, decreased, or stayed the same over the past 5 years?	Single Question	Change in undesirable infrastructures
8	Would you agree or disagree if, as part of a climate-friendly energy policy in your area,...	Multi-Item Scale	Acceptance of infrastructural climate protection measures
9	There is currently a lot of discussion about gender equality. What do you think about the following statements?	Multi-Item Scale	Acceptance of political gender equality measures
10	You hear different opinions about Jews here and there. We have compiled some of them here. Would you please tell us to what extent you agree or disagree with these statements?	Multi-Item Scale	Antisemitism

Number of Participants:

240

Selection of Target Population/Quotas:

Test persons were recruited from an online access panel.
Cross quotas by gender (m/w) x age (18 – 45 years/46 – 75 years) x education (with/without university entrance qualification) = 2 x 2 x 2 groups.

Test Date:

01/2022 - 02/2022

Survey mode:

CAWI

Pretest mode:

Web Probing

Procedure:

Use of an online questionnaire with additional open and closed probing questions (see Downloads). All subjects received ten questions to be tested as well as cognitive follow-up questions on five of these questions each. Subjects were randomly as-signed to one of two groups. Group 1 (n = 124) received cognitive follow-up questions on questions 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. Group 2 (n = 116) received follow-up questions on questions 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Thus, each question was tested quantitatively with 240 respondents and qualitatively with 124 and 116 respondents, respectively. If multiple items within an item battery were tested using cognitive follow-up questions, each item was tested with only a subpopulation of the 124 or 116 subjects.

Incentive for respondents:

Incentivization according to the guidelines of the panel provider.

Project Description:

The Cohesion Panel of the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (ZHP-FGZ) provides a database for systematic analyses of the relationship between socio-economic living conditions, individual lifestyles, group- and society-related attitudes and values of the population and their political orientations and behaviors. This is intended to capture issues of social cohesion at the levels of individuals, groups and networks and to explain them through structural situation parameters and cultural dispositions. The ZHP-FGZ thus also opens the possibility of developing and applying new survey concepts for the analysis and monitoring of social cohesion.

Client:

University of Bremen
Prof. Dr. Groh-Samberg

Pretest Report (German):

Pretest Report (English):

Interview protocol (German):

Interview protocol (English):

Citation:

Lenzner, T., Schick, L., Hadler, P., Behnert, J., Steins, P. & Neuert, C. (2022): FGZ Cohesion Panel: Wave 2 – Questions on climate change, antisemitism, and gender equality (English Version). Cognitive Online Pretest. GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences