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Series Name:
EB - Eurobarometer
The Eurobarometer survey is designed to provide regular monitoring of public social and political attitudes in the EU through specific trend questions. Therefore, the general aim of EB is to know the attitudes and evaluations of European citizens about large general themes. The questions concern to the European integration issues, but sometimes they regard also specific problem about single country or common problems of economic, political or social nature.
The arguments of Eurobarometer 84.4 are as follows:
- EU development aid: opinion about how important is helping people in developing countries and self-rated knowledge about deveopment aid. Political and istitutional engagement in reducing poverty in some developing countries of the world and personal engagement.
- Animal welfare: understanding of animal welfare. Opinion about the importance to protect the welfare of farmed animals, about laws concerning it, about EU engagement. Inclination to buy animal welfare-friendly products at a higher cost. Importance of a legal obligation with regard to the protection of animals for commercial purposes within and outside of EU.
- Tobacco black market: smoking status. Personal experiences about black market tobacco: sources and places of finding, main reasons for smoking it. Relations between black market and organized crime.
- Nature-based solutions: presence of natural elements and main ecological/social problems in living area. Benefits and concerns linked to the introduction of green areas in a neighborhood or in a city. Opinion about the introduction of nature-based solutions in living area: personal engagement, potential barriers.
- Demography: political position, household composition, occupation, possession of technology devices and of internet connection, current financial status and opinion about a future improvement, general life satisfaction, frequency of political discussions (national and european politics), EU image.
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Keywords: animal welfare, animals, black market, development, farmed animals, nature, tobacco
Topic Classification:
Nations: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Geographical Unit: size community
Analysis Unit: individual
Universe: Residents in the respective country aged 15 and over.
Sample Procedure: About 1000 for each country. Multi-stage stratified random sample.
Weight: Weight used. Please read the documentation for any details
Collection Mode: face to face interview, Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)
Collection Size: UniData supplies: 1 dataset in SPSS format; 1 syntax file related to missing cases; 1 dataset in STATA format; 2 questionnaire in PDF format (eng, ita); 1 methodological notes and codebook in PDF format (eng)
(6 file)
Documentation:
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Source Contact: Eurobarometer Data Service - GESIS
Citation:
European Commission. (2015) Eurobarometer 84.4: development, cooperation and aid, animal welfare, tobacco black market, nature-based solutions. TNS Opinion & Social [Producer]. GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences [Producer]. UniData - Bicocca Data Archive, Milan. Study Number SI354. Data file version 4.0
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Question module QA on ´Development, Cooperation and Aid´ largely replicates questions formerly asked in the framework of Eurobarometer 82.1.
Question module QB on ´Animal Welfare´ is partly based on the corresponding module surveyed in the framework of Eurobarometer 66.1.
Question module QC on ´Tobacco Black Market´ is newly introduced.
Question module QD on “Nature based solutions” is newly introduced, and available starting with version v3-0-0 (embargo update).
Data for protocol variables p8 (postal code), p9 (sample point number) and p10 (interviewer number) have not been made available.
Starting with Eurobarometer 81.3 (with 84.1 for Germany), the category scheme for country specific protocol variables P6 (SIZE OF COMMUNITY) has changed considerably. Categories for all countries have been harmonized among each other to three values (Rural area – Towns and suburbs/small urban area – Cities/large urban areas).
Starting with Eurobarometer 81.3 the category scheme for country specific protocol variables P7 (REGION) has changed for some countries, in particular introducing NUTS categories for Ireland, Estonia, and Croatia.
Please note abnormal frequency distributions due to fieldwork irregularities for the Region variable for Austria (p7at, p7at_r), in particular for Vorarlberg. While the number of cases for Vorarlberg hovers between 46 (4,4% if based on weighted data) in Eurobarometer 84.1 and 44 (4,4% if based on weighted data) in Eurobarometer 84.3, due to fieldwork irregularities there are only three cases for Vorarlberg in Eurobarometer 84.4 (0,3% if based on weighted data). This is not the proportion expected for this NUTS2 region.
In the course of a new dataset delivery from TNS the REGION variable for Romania has been corrected for an abnormal frequency distribution in version v2-0-0. Please note that the number of cases changed for the regions “Sud-Est (South-East)” and “Bucuresti –Ilfov (Bucharest)“ in variable p7ro: 80 former cases from “Sud-Est (South-East)” are now coded “Bucuresti -Ilfov (Bucharest)“. Accordingly the number of cases also changed for the regions “Macroregion 2” and “Macroregion 3” in variable p7ro_r. As a consequence of this data correction weights referring to Romania have been modified. Please note that official reports and tables may be based on former weights and slight deviations to the current dataset results can exist.