Technical report on the 2022 IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP survey - "Ukrainian refugees in Germany" (Wave 1)

infas Institute for Applied Social Sciences (infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft GmbH) was commissioned to survey refugees from Ukraine by the Socio-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, DIW Berlin). The study is a joint project of the Institute for Employment Research (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung, IAB), the Federal Institute for Population Research (Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung, BiB), the Research Centre of the Federal Institute for Migration and Refugees (Forschungszentrum des Bundesamtes für Migration und Flüchtlinge, BAMF-FZ) and DIW Berlin. The study "IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP - Ukrainian Refugees in Germany" is financed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community (Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat, BMI), the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, BMAS) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) to find out more about the living conditions of the refugees. To this end, persons between the ages of 18 and 70 who fled Ukraine and came to Germany between 02/24/2022 and 06/08/2022 are surveyed nationwide. This technical report documents the implementation of the first wave in 2022. All survey documents used are documented in the annex. infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft GmbH