The ifo Education Survey 2014–2021: A New Dataset on Public Preferences for Education Policy in Germany

Abstract 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 wide range policy issues ranging from early childhood education, schools, and apprenticeships to university life-long learning. dataset comprises several experiments facilitate investigating causal effects information provision, framing, question design answering behavior. This paper gives an overview content methodology, describes data, explains how researchers can access over 4000 participants per wave.