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Allensbach Institute.
For each study, the institute questions thousands of Germans on every subject imaginable from history to politics to women's issues to immigration policy. It is, therefore, an excellent source for information on the general populace.
Despite all the uncertainties about the debt crisis [in early 2012], 49% of the populace were hopeful about the next 12 months, only 17% said they were worried, although 26% said they were "skeptical." The proportion in the optimism category was a bit lower than 56% the previous year, but this is still a relatively high figure. Since German was reunified in 1990, there have been only eight years when a majority said they were hopeful. And only three years since the turn of the century (2000, 2007 and 2010).