Your experience matters!

The survey on discrimination in Germany –
take part.

The survey on discrimination in Germany – take part.

Three good reasons to participate in the major survey on discrimination:

Your voice helps make discrimination visible.

Reliable facts and data enable changes.

Everyone loves surveys.

Your experience matters!

Tell us what you experienced and how you handled it.
Each perspective and every single case are important.

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Your responses will help the work on real improvements in policy, counselling and society. Please tell us about your experiences.

Anyone aged 14 or over who has ever experienced discrimination can take part.

Participation is anonymous. All data will be handled completely confidentially.

It takes around 30 minutes to fill out the questionnaire.

About the survey

Many people experience situations where they are treated unfairly or disadvantaged in their everyday lives. Discrimination can happen anywhere – at work, in school, during leisure time, while shopping or eating out, when looking for an apartment or for employment.

People are, for instance, discriminated against on the basis of:

That is why the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency is carrying out Germany’s largest study to date on discrimination. The survey will run from 12 November 2025 until 28 February 2026.

The results will be published in 2027.

Find answers to Frequently Asked Questions here:

The survey as a paper-based questionnaire

Instead of participating in the survey online, you can also fill out a paper-based questionnaire and send it back to us free of charge. The paper-based questionnaire is available in German and in plain German language.

Questionnaire in German
Order paper-based questionnaire in German free of charge

Questionnaire in plain German language
Order paper-based questionnaire in plain German language free of charge

Your experience matters!

“Any single case of discrimination is one too many. In order to address discrimination more effectively, we need to gain better insights into how people experience it in Germany.”

Ferda Ataman, Independent Federal Anti-Discrimination Commissioner

Ferda Ataman, Unabhängige Bundesbeauftragte für Antidiskriminierung

Order materials

Help us to make people aware of the major survey on discrimination – order promotional materials free of charge.

Flyers with information about the survey
(in German)

Flyer mit Informationen zur Umfrage

Postcards
(in German and multilingual)

Postkarte – Mach Diskriminierung sichtbar

Posters
(in German and multilingual)

Plakat – Mach Diskriminierung sichtbar.

What happens after the survey?

If you wish to be kept up to date, we can contact you by email as soon as the survey has been evaluated in German and English.

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