Integration Barometer

Surveying People’s Opinions on Integration


	Barometer 2020 Integration Barometer The 2020 Integration Barometer is the third nationwide survey and the first which is not only representative of people with and without a migration background at national level but also at regional level. In addition to measuring the integration climate, the 2020 Integration Barometer investigated satisfaction with democracy and trust in politics and institutions, among other things. The integration climate is still perceived to be positive. In comparison to the survey conducted in 2017/18, people without a migration background feel that social coexistence in Germany as an immigration country is slightly better now. This is above all down to the more positive attitude of male respondents. The long survey period means it is possible to compare people’s attitudes before and after the coronavirus lockdown measures took effect in March 2020. The analysis shows that satisfaction with democracy and trust in politicians in general and the Federal Government in particular were both higher in the period after the lockdown. The increase in satisfaction and trust tends to be stronger for people without a migration background than for those with a migration background, although the latter started from a higher base level of satisfaction. Trust in school and the police as institutions was on a high level during the coronavirus pandemic, both in respondents with and without a migration background. However, those with a migration background who feel discriminated on account of their origin have less trust in both institutions. A total of 15,095 people across Germany took part in the telephone survey for the 2020 Integration Barometer in the period between November 2019 and August 2020. They included 8,034 people without a migration background, 1,244 ethnic German resettlers, 880 people of Turkish descent, 2,078 EU migrants and 2,859 migrants from the rest of the world. The minimum quotas on sample sizes at regional level and the corresponding weighting mean the 2020 Integration Barometer is representative at federal state level of people with and without a migration background. It is also representative at national level of people with and without a migration background and the groups of origin mentioned in the above. 2020 Integration Barometer \| Coming together while keeping a distance (Summary) Information about the Annual Report 2020	About the Integration Barometer The Integration Barometer is a representative public survey of people with and without a migration background in Germany. It measures the integration climate in Germany as an immigration country and captures the population's perceptions and expectations with regard to integration and migration as well as integration and migration policy. The 2020 Integration Barometer was the first to be sponsored jointly by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community and the 16 federal states (Laender). The Integration Barometer has been expanded into a Federal Government/Federal State Barometer, which enables analyses to be made at the federal state level too. The 16th Conference of Integration Ministers, held in April 2021, endorsed the Federal Government and federal states continuing to jointly fund the Integration Barometer. The next Barometer, planned for 2022, can thus also be based on a significantly increased sample. One unique feature of the Barometer is that it captures the perspectives and assessments of both sides of the immigration society. It therefore complements those statistics that only look at either the majority population or the immigrant population. One of the strengths of the Integration Barometer is the large number of respondents with a migration background, making it one of the largest representative immigrant surveys in Germany. Its large sample enables detailed analyses among the population with a migration background, for example by group of origin or social status. Weighting factors applied during the analyses guarantee that the actual shares of people with and without a migration background in the population are appropriately reflected. This ensures that the overall analysis is representative. For the Integration Barometer, people are randomly selected every two years based on a scientific procedure and then interviewed by telephone. More than 9,000 people were surveyed for the 2018 Integration Barometer. The sample for the 2020 Federal Government/Federal State Integration Barometer was significantly expanded (15,000 intervieews) so that analyses can also be conducted at the level of the federal states. The 2011 and 2013 Annual Reports encompassed a smaller-scale migration barometer which looked at migration policy issues. Recent years 2018 Integration Barometer 2018 Integration Barometer (summary) \| Stable integration climate in Germany 2016 Integration Barometer 2016 Integration Barometer (summary) 2014 Integration Barometer 2014 Integration Barometer (summary) Migration Barometer 2013 Migration Barometer 2013 (summary) Integration Barometer 2012 Integration Barometer 2012 (summary) Migration Barometer 2011 Migration Barometer 2011 (summary) Integration Barometer 2010 Integration Barometer 2010 (summary)