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In December 2011, the Immigrant
panel was presented the questionnaire regarding volunteering with
the aim of gaining insight into the effect of thinking about volunteering on the
willingness to engage in all kinds of situations.

Respondents were randomly
assigned to one of three conditions.

In condition 1 respondents
were asked to think about a situation in which they had helped another person.

In condition 2 respondents
were asked to remember a situation in which they had thought or talked about
volunteers and their various reasons to do voluntary work.

In condition 3 respondents
were asked to remember one of their typical days.

Respondents described these
situations and were asked a few questions about the described situation.

At the end of the questionnaire respondents
were presented with all sorts of statements about (helping) behavior. They were
asked to indicate to what extent they would be willing to engage in that
behavior.

Two wave survey on voters' opinions: before and after the Dutch parliamentary elections of May 6, 1998. Political interest and communication / most important national problems /
party adherence / party membership / government policy satisfaction /
voting intention Second Chamber 1994 / general attitude towards (not)
voting / perception of poll results / political issues: euthanasia,
asylum seekers, European Union, ethnic minorities, perception of main
parties standpoint, own stand / political knowledge / membership of the
European Union / left-right self-rating / previous voting behaviour /
sympathy scores for political parties and politicians / political
knowledge: recognition of politician portraits, largest party,
composition of coalition / coalition preference before election / social
and political goals / conditions for Dutch nationality, the
multicultural society / composition of household / household income /
background characteristics: respondent: date of birth, marital status /
background characteristics respondent and partner: education,
occupational status, reasons for not working, occupation, number of
employees, number of working hours / former occupation / willingness to
work in regular job / religious denomination, attendance of religious
services / denomination raised in / respondent: political discussions
and party preference of parents when respondent was aged 10-16 / social
class self image / head of household: education, occupation, number of
working hours, number of employees, reason for not working / parents:
education, occupation, number of working hours, number of employees,
reason for not working / interest and activities in campaign / voting
behaviour Second Chamber 1998, coalition preference after elections /
(post-)materialist values / importance of political issues: income
differences, integration of ethnic minorities, nuclear plants, heavy
traffic on highways, environmental pollution, unemployment, euthanasia,
European Union, financial deficit of the state, level social benefits,
securing good provision for old age, misusing social benefits, asylum
seekers, crime, health care / perception importance of various issues
to political parties: unemployment, environment, fighting crime,
refugees, health care / social participation / perception standpoint
political parties: level of social benefits, nuclear plants /
satisfaction with Dutch democracy: fairness of elections, role of
political parties, members of parliament / satisfaction with Dutch
economy / regional representativeness of the parliament / right to vote
for immigrants / best candidate for prime minister / left-right rating
of political parties / external and internal political efficacy /
political cynicism / social isolation / acceptance of political
decisions / vote probability: other party / civic competence and civic
political participation / religion in politics: pillarization /
social-class self image / nationalism, patriotism, importance of
disobedience, self-control, national anthem and flag, attitude to
foreigners / self administered questionnaire: description of three
persons who are most close to respondent (partner excluded): political
discussions with them, their political stand / contacts with other
persons / trust in institutions: churches, army, judges, press, police,
parliament, administration, big companies, European Union, NATO /
media consumption: watching news and entertainment tv programs,
listening to radio channels, reading newspapers, magazines / political
TV commercials / Internet / approached by political party / political
interest, reading (inter)national news / convincing others to vote for
party.

Two wave survey on voters' opinions: before and after the Dutch parliamentary elections of May 3, 1994. Pre-election wave: reading of newspapers, tv-newscast exposure / most important national problems / party identification and membership / evaluation of government policy on economy, employment and respondents personal finances / perception of main parties' standpoints on various political issues: euthanasia, crime, income differences, nuclear plants, ethnic minorities, R's own viewpoints regarding these matters / voting at last municipal elections /feasibility of multi-party system / sympathy rating of parties and leading politicians / coalition preference / party identification of parents / most essential goals in life / the inflow of asylum-seekers / the meaning of life / the life of Brian / Post-election wave: exposure to election campaigns, participation in it / voting behaviour, time of vote decision, voting stability / image of political parties regarding their ability to solve specific problems: crime, employment, pollution, welfare-fraud, financing deficit, pensioners' incomes / importance ranking of these problems / voting for European parliament / perception of main parties' standpoints on the unification of Europe, R's own standpoints in this matter / who will be the best prime minister / familiarity with politicians / best &amp, worst qualities of leading politicians / left-right rating of political parties / meaning of the concepts of left and right / sense of political efficacy / image of politicians and the political system / civic competence / relation between citizens and politicians / importance of the city council ( gemeenteraad ), provincial states ( provinciale staten ), national and European parliament to R's personal life / importance ranking of various political and personal issues / political participation / who are most entitled to a job / attitude to foreigners / racism / positive discrimination / chance that R will ever vote for other political parties / role of religion in public life, pillarization. Background variables: basic characteristics/ residence/ household characteristics/ occupation/employment/ income/capital assets/ education/ social class/ politics/ religion/ readership, mass media, and 'cultural' exposure/ organizational membership.

In September and October 2010, a questionnaire was administered to the Immigrant panel in which respondents were asked to answer three questions about six pictures (from 12 pictures in total). In September, it was randomly determined whether the respondent received picture 1 - 6 or picture 7 – 12. In October the respondent received the other six pictures. If a panelmember did not participate in September the order of the pictures was randomly determined in October (1 - 6 or 7 - 12).

In July 2012, the Immigrant panel was presented a questionnaire about family relationships during childhood.The questionnaire started with a filter question in order to determine whether panel members grew up with both their biological parents or not. If panel members grew up in a different, special, situation the question texts were formulated a bit different and the option “not applicable” was added.