Summary information

Study title

European Communities Study 1971

Creator

Commission of the European Communities, Brussels

Study number / PID

ZA0627, Version 1.0.1 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.10852 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitude to political unification of Europe. Topics: Feeling of belonging to a geographical region; regional origins and local residency; changes in region; mobility readiness; influence of the European Community on the development of the region in general and on special economic areas; attitude to jurisdictions about distributions between the country and European authorities; judgement on the economic difficulties of agriculture; attitude to the farmers demonstrations and use of force at such demonstrations; prospects for the future of agriculture; occupational prospects of farmers; the significance of the Common Market for agriculture as well as for industry; assumed influences of the Common Market on modernization, sales and the competition situation for agricultural products; assumed influences of further countries joining the European Community on agriculture, industry and one´s own country in general; familiarity and judgement on the Mansholt Plan; postmaterialism (scale); most important political goals; danger of an economic crisis and danger of war (scale); attitude to political unification of Europe; personal willingness to make sacrifices for a unification; self-assessment of extent to which informed about European economic problems, problems of national agriculture and of regional economic development; judgement on media reporting about these problems; assessment of the chances of a political unification of Europe; personal opinion leadership; receptiveness regarding new things; party preference (Sunday question); religiousness; self-classification as conservative or progressive; union member. Demography: age (classified); sex; number of children in household; religious denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation; household income; head of household; political discussion; social origins; state; regional origins; membership.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

07/1971

Country

Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Various sampling procedures (quota sample and multi-stage random sample) depending on country.

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2011

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

Related publications

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