infas

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infas

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founding 1959
Seat Bonn , Germany
management Menno Smid
Number of employees 137
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Website www.infas.de

The infas Institute for Applied Social Science , based in Bonn, is an institute for market and social research that researches and advises companies, science, politics and administration. The institute operates a telephone studio with 170 places in Bonn and has nationwide interviewers for personal on-site interviews (CAPI) . infas is ranked 8th among the market and social research institutes with the highest turnover in Germany. The managing director is Menno Smid. infas is a subsidiary of infas Holding AG (formerly Action Press Holding AG), of which Smid has been CEO since 2009.

Study participation

infas conducted and conducts empirical research for numerous national and international social science studies. This includes:

  • The National Education Panel (NEPS) . The study examines how the level of education develops from childhood to advanced adulthood and what effects education has on further life. The NEPS study describes educational processes over the entire lifespan and determines causes and interdependencies. It is a longitudinal study , i.e. people are questioned repeatedly. The surveys of mothers with newborns, parents, trainees, students and adults as part of the NEPS study are carried out by infas.
  • The European Social Survey (ESS) is a social science study that has examined the social and political attitudes of citizens from over 30 European countries since 2002. It shows stability and change in the social structure, in the living conditions and attitudes of the citizens in Europe. With the exception of the 5th survey wave, the surveys for the German sub-project of the ESS are all carried out by infas.
  • The German Age Survey (DEAS) is a nationwide representative cross-sectional and longitudinal survey of people who are in the second half of life. The comprehensive study of people in middle and older adulthood is used to provide microdata that is useful for social and behavioral research as well as can also be used for social reporting. The surveys of the four waves since 1996 were carried out by infas.
  • The panel "Labor market and social security" carried out by the Institute for Labor Market and Occupational Research (IAB) provides a database with the help of which the dynamics of basic income support and the social situation of households with basic income support can be examined. The annual surveys have been carried out by infas since 2009.
  • "LidA - living in work. A cohort study on health and aging at work" commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is a longitudinal study to investigate the extent to which work influences the health of older employees. The aim of the lidA research project is to examine the long-term effect that work currently has and will have on the health of an aging workforce in Germany from an interdisciplinary perspective. infas has been carrying out the empirical surveys for the study since 2009.
  • The Mobility in Germany (MiD) study examines the mobility behavior of Germans on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure and numerous regional partners. To this end, around 135,000 households were asked about their mobility behavior by infas in 2016 and 2017 in a key date survey. In 2002 and 2008, infas carried out the MiD for the Federal Ministry.
  • The Innovation Panel of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) has been carried out annually since 2000 on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) . The panel study determines information on the introduction of new products, services and processes in companies, the expenditure for innovations, and the success they achieve with them.
  • Together with the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and the Berlin Science Center for Social Research (WZB) , infas carried out the legacy study in August 2016 and thereafter. Around 3,000 German citizens were asked about various areas of life, how they assess the current situation, what they expect in the future and what they would recommend to future generations.

history

infas headquarters in the Kanadahaus , Bonn

The institute was founded in 1959 by Wolfgang Hartenstein, Klaus Liepelt and Günter Schubert as the "Institute for Applied Social Science", or ifas for short. Due to name disputes, the short form was later changed to "infas". The foundation was financed, among other things, with funds from the SPD . From the beginning, infas concentrated on social, political and regional research. From 1965 to 1996, the institute was commissioned by the ARD to carry out analyzes and projections for Bundestag, Landtag and local elections in the Federal Republic of Germany.

In the 1990s infas got into difficulties and reached a debt level of 28 million DM. At the end of 1993, experts from McKinsey and family members of the former Neckermann board member Unkelbach took over the institute and carried out a restructuring. In 1996 the PR consultant Moritz Hunzinger acquired the majority of the institute and brought it into the institute before the IPO of Hunzinger Information AG, the predecessor of today's Infas Holding AG .

Television research

From 1974 to 1984, together with the Allensbach Institute for Demoscopy , infas carried out the first German television research to determine audience ratings . An electronic measuring device was used for the first time. The device developed by the Heidelberg company Teldix determined the individual television use of the household members at the touch of a button. The data was saved and accessed over the phone from the institutes at night.

Election research

On behalf of German television and the ARD broadcasters, infas carried out the first extrapolation for a federal election in Germany on September 19, 1965 . As part of the ARD contract, infas made a significant contribution to establishing the use of computers in the creation of election forecasts . Political research at infas began in 1959 with a study on "Voters, parties and politics in Lower Saxony". Until 1996 the institute produced the projections for the ARD election reporting.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2019 sales of German market research institutes. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ DGAP: ad hoc announcement
  3. ↑ NEPS study: Who is conducting the NEPS study?
  4. ↑ Bielefeld University: European Social Survey - About Us ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-bielefeld.de
  5. ^ German Center for Age Issues: DEAS survey instruments
  6. ^ Institute for Employment Research: IAB Household Panel
  7. ^ Institute for labor market and occupational research: lidA - project details
  8. ↑ Mobility in Germany
  9. ↑ Innovation survey , ZEW. Retrieved July 20, 2017
  10. ↑ The Legacy - The World We Want to Experience, ZEIT-Online. Retrieved July 17, 2017
  11. ↑ Anja Kruke 2007: Demoskopie in the Federal Republic of Germany, opinion research, parties and media 1949-1990. Droste Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7700-5281-3 , pp. 202f.
  12. ↑ Jochen Groß 2009: The prognosis of election results - approaches and empirical performance . VS Verlag, ISBN 3531172735 , p. 33.
  13. ↑ Der Spiegel , 33/1996: Just one more ruin
  14. ^ Otto Altendorfer 2001: The Media System of the Federal Republic of Germany. Westdeutscher Verlag, ISBN 3531134353 , p. 237.
  15. ↑ Bernd Klammer 2005: Empirical Social Research. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3825226425 , p. 147.