Data: ifo Education Survey

The ifo Education Survey is a representative opinion survey of the German voting-age population on education topics that has been conducted annually since 2014. It covers public preferences on a wide range of education policy issues ranging from early childhood education, schools, and apprenticeships to university education and life-long learning. The dataset comprises several survey experiments which facilitate investigating the causal effects of information provision, framing, and question design on answering behavior.

The data of the survey waves 2014-2020 are now published for scientific use.

Data access

Cite the following paper if you use ifo Education Survey data:

"The ifo Education Survey 2014-2021: A New Dataset on Public Preferences for Education Policy in Germany" (with Vera Freundl, Elisabeth Grewenig, Franziska Kugler, Ruth Schüler, Katharina Wedel, Katharina Werner, Olivia Wirth, and Ludger Woessmann), Journal of Economics and Statistics - Data Observer, 2022, ahead of print.