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Data Kind:
individual data
Time Dimensions:
longitudinal (trend repeated cross-section)
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 88.3 are as follows:
- Attitudes towards the EU: life satisfaction; frequency of discussions about political matters on national, European, and local level; assessment of the current situation in the following areas: own country, national economy, European economy, personal job situation, financial situation of the own household, national employment situation, provision of public services in the own country
- Europe 2020 (only in EU28): likelihood to reach the following objectives by 2020, such as jobs, renewable energies, migrations,
- European economy: impact of the economic crisis on the job market;
- European citizenship: feeling of attachment towards: own city, own country, European Union, Europe;
- Media use: assessment of the informedness of the people in the own country about European matters; self-rated knowledge about European matters
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Keywords: media, politics, values, economy
Topic Classification:
Nations: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey
Geographical Unit: size community
Analysis Unit: individual
Universe: whole national population of 15 years and older
Sample Procedure: about 1.000 individuals 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 dataset in Stata format; 2 questionnaires in PDF format (ita, eng); 1 methodological notes in PDF format (5 file)
Documentation:
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Data Use Restriction:
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Source Contact: Boris Heizmann - GESIS
Citation:
European Commission. (2017) Eurobarometer 88.3: attitudes towards the EU, Europe 2020, European citizenship and media use. TNS Opinion [Producer]. GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences [Producer]. UniData - Bicocca Data Archive, Milan. Study Number SI365. Data file version 1.0
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All question modules in the standard Eurobarometer context and largely replicating questions asked in the context of Eurobarometer 87.3 and 86.2.
Data for protocol variables p8 (postal code), p9 (sample point number) and p10 (interviewer number) have not been made available.
No data are available for protocol items p8 (postal code), p9 (sample point number), p10 (interviewer number).