The ifo Education Survey: An ifo Survey on Public Preferences for Education Policy in Germany

The ifo Education Survey (ifo Bildungsbarometer), an annual opinion survey on education topics in Germany, has been conducted by the ifo Center for the Economics of Education since 2014. The survey asks large representative samples of the adult population – over 4,000 participants per wave – about their opinion on education and education policies. Each year, the survey covers about 30 questions on topics at all relevant educational stages ranging from early childhood education and school policies to the apprenticeship system, universities, and lifelong learning. Each survey wave examines a specific focus topic – for example, education policies to integrate refugees in the 2016 wave or education policies during the Covid-19 pandemic in the 2020 wave.