Replication Data for: Conscription reloaded? The Debate about Compulsory Service in Germany in 2022 and the Peoples’ Attitudes towards ithttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/D4O5JKJäckle, SebastianHarvard Dataverse2023-02-202023-02-20T13:25:47ZThese data and Stata do-files replicate all analyses and figures from the article "Conscription reloaded? The Debate about Compulsory Service in Germany in 2022 and the Peoples’ Attitudes towards it" published in Statistics, Politics and Policy 2023. In mid-2022, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke out in favor of introducing compulsory service in Germany. Against the backdrop of the restructuring of the Bundeswehr necessitated by the war in Ukraine and the worsening shortage of personnel in the social sector and in nursing care, he thus revived a debate that had been recurring in Germany for decades. This dataset includes online survey data from July 2022 of more than 7,500 people about their attitudes toward compulsory service. The data comes from the Politikpanel Deutschland a large online survey, conducted several times a year. The dataset also includes the Stata do files to replicate the article "Conscription reloaded? The Debate about Compulsory Service in Germany in 2022 and the Peoples’ Attitudes towards it". This article examines how Germans feel about compulsory general service and what factors are associated with this attitude. More than 63% of respondents are in favor of compulsory service. Psychological factors such as solidarity, sense of duty, extraversion and openness play just as important a role as political attitudes. People who position themselves more right-wing/nationalist/traditional view compulsory service more positively than liberal and left-wing respondents. In terms of voting intention, CDU/CSU and AfD supporters in particular support a general compulsory service, whereas it is less strongly supported by Greens, SPD and FDP supporters and even rejected by a majority of Left supporters. Another key factor for the evaluation of compulsory service is the respondents' own experience with completed service. Respondents who have done military service view compulsory service more positively than those who have done community service or voluntary service. Those who have done voluntary service also view compulsory service positively.Social SciencesCompulsory ServiceGermanyOnline SurveyAttitudesVoluntary WorkJäckle, Sebastian (2023): Replication Data for: Conscription reloaded? The Debate about Compulsory Service in Germany in 2022 and the Peoples’ Attitudes towards it. in Statistics, Politics and Policy, doi2023-02-20Jäckle, Sebastian2022-11-03CC0 1.0