You may have already received mail from the Federal Criminal Police Office BKA or the letter may be in your mailbox today. The BKA is currently conducting the survey “Security and Crime in Germany 2024” in close cooperation with the police of the individual federal states.SKiD 2024)” through. The BKA wants to find out what experiences you have had with crime, what your feeling of security is and how you evaluate police work.
In February 2024, the BKA wrote to a total of around 186,000 citizens aged 16 and over nationwide asking them to take part in the survey in the next few weeks. “If you have been contacted, you can make an important contribution to improving the security situation in Germany by taking part in the survey,” promises the BKA. The citizens contacted were randomly drawn from the population registers of cities and municipalities using a statistical procedure.
The questionnaire is available in paper form and online. It is available in German, Turkish, Russian and Arabic. The infas Institute for Applied Social Science GmbH from Bonn is conducting the survey on behalf of the BKA. Specifically, the questionnaire asks the following points:
- Experience with crime: car theft, home burglary, fraud, cybercrime, assault, insults (also on the web), sexual harassment, etc.
- Reporting behavior, reasons for or against reporting to the police
- Feeling of security, also specific to a crime
- Evaluation of the police
- Characteristics and consequences of criminal experience
- Information on age, gender, education, religion, migration background, etc.
How to take part
You can fill out the questions on the attached paper questionnaire and send it back to infas in the enclosed envelope. The BKA will cover the postage costs. Alternatively, you can also answer the questions online. The website and the access code can be found on the front page of the paper questionnaire sent to you.
However, you cannot apply to take part in the study yourself.
Do I have to take part in the study?
No, participation in the SKiD survey is voluntary. If you have been contacted but do not want to take part in the current SKiD 2024 survey, do not fill out the questionnaire. If you do not fill out the questionnaire, you will receive one or two reminder letters, as the BKA explains. You can also ignore these.
If you no longer wish to receive any further mail related to SKiD 2024, you can let us know without giving a reason. You can reach the commissioned survey institute infas via email skid@infas.de or by telephone on the free number 0800 66 55 445.
This is the second such survey. The accompanying website for SKiD 2024 can be found under this link.
