DeZIM.panel Data Release 5.0.0.

The DeZIM.panel has been set up as a data collection infrastructure that explicitly takes Germany’s current post-migrant society into account. It is a random sample drawn based on the registration offices, which allows for the longitudinal representation of current moods and trends in the German population. In the DeZIM.panel, individuals with migration background are oversampled, especially people from Turkey and from other majority Muslim countries, from states with guest worker agreements and re-settlers from the East. Thus, the DeZIM.panel provides sufficient cases for comparisons and analyses within these subgroups, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. The first self-administered survey was launched at the end of 2021. In the meantime, twelve regular waves have already been conducted. In the year 2023, the second recruitment wave (dw0) was designed as complementary extension sample to the first recruitment wave (aw0), to cover the whole adult population in Germany. As a result, elderly people born earlier than 1954 were targeted. Panel-ready individuals from the second recruitment wave were integrated into the DeZIM.panel starting from wave ten. The general aim of the DeZIM.panel is to function as a multi-thematic, multi-wave access panel that allows researchers to track the impact of external events, as well as to track short- and long-term changes in public opinion of different societal groups with a specific regard to minorities, immigrants and their descendants. This allows for the capture of both new developments and current trends. It also provides data, which is of specific interest to those studying the topics of integration, migration, and racism. Such data include integration indicators, discrimination experiences, xenophobic and racist attitudes, and national and ethnic identities. The DeZIM.panel runs four regular waves per year with a length of 20 minutes. Half of the survey consists of core modules, which remain largely the same every year, along with questions on current topics. The core modules focus on political institutions, attitudes, and behaviour (Module 1), societal values and societal norms (Module 2), health and well-being (Module 3), and labour and education as well as discrimination experiences (Module 4). Questions about subjective well-being and the assessment of individual life situations are asked in every wave. In addition to these regular waves, we also have the survey format of the so-called short surveys with a field time of one to two weeks. This allows us to respond in a timely manner to important current societal and political issues.

The release 5.0.0 provides the data of the DeZIM.panel in longitudinal data structure. Release 5.0.0 contains the data from the following waves:

• the first recruitment wave (aw0, 2021) and the second recruitment wave (dw0, 2023)

• the first twelve regular survey waves (bw1-bw4 (2022), cw1-cw4 (2023), dw1-dw4 (2024))

• two short surveys: one on reactions to the war in Ukraine (bs1, 2022) and the other on the reactions to the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia (ds1, 2024)