This is how the data you provide in the questionnaire will be used for research on discrimination in Germany:
- All data that you provide in the survey will be anonymised. In other words: Any personal information that could be traced back to your identity will be removed. No one will be able to work out who provided a specific answer.
- Anonymised data from all the people participating in the survey are analysed by researchers. We expect to publish the main findings in our final report in the early summer of 2027.
- From 2027, interested organisations from civil society will upon request be able to use the anonymised data for their own evaluations. For instance, an organisation that advocates for the interests of a particular group of the population may receive a partial dataset to find out more about this group’s experiences of discrimination. Or an anti-discrimination organisation from a specific Federal Land can request a partial dataset to specifically evaluate which forms of discrimination are most common in their Federal Land. Such special civil society assessments complement the final report.
- In the long term, the anonymised data will be transmitted to a Research Data Centre. There they are put at the disposal of research to also be used to answer questions surrounding the topic of discrimination in the future.
Your data will therefore not only assist the research of today, but also of coming years.
If you want to know when the final report is published, you can register here for an email notification (in German and English).
You can download the information on data protection here: PDF download Data protection
