The target sample consists of a total of 263 institutions. Of these 263 institutions, 15,778 scientific staff completed the majority of the survey, thus forming the final sample. For the representativeness of the data, we compared the composition of our sample with the population of academics in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland according to their academic status group, gender, and discipline groups. For more information on the representativeness, see the methodological report (p. 33f).