The AUTNES Demand Side team carried out two main tasks in the funding period 2009-2012:
First, the AUTNES Demand Side prepared and conducted the 2009 post-post election survey and made it freely available on our website for scholarly use. In their scientific work the Demand Side concentrated on explaining political participation, vote choice and party competition using in particular the data gathered in 2009.
Second, the AUTNES Demand Side developed the various survey instruments for the national elections which will take place in 2013. To prepare the instruments the Demand Side conducted several survey experiments, organized several rounds of expert reviews, conducted cognitive interviews and ran a quantitative pre-test on a probability sample of a 100 respondents.