Summary information

Study title

Eurobarometer 54.2 (Jan-Feb 2001)

Creator

European Commission, Brussels DG Press and Communication Opinion Polls

Study number / PID

ZA3388, Version 1.1.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.10938 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

The major topics are: 1. Effects of new technologies 2. Working world and social things 3. Mobility 4. Attitude to the handicapped. Topics: 1. Effects of new technologies: expected effects on life of respondent; assessment of influence of new technologies on daily life, access to information, available leisure time, safety, accident risk, work in or on house, family and social relations and crime in 5 to 10 years; assessment who profits most from the Internet; new technologies as means to reduce social inequality, cultural and education differences, number of people socially excluded; new technologies as possibility for political participation, access to political representatives and public services and new possibilities of election participation and expression of opinion; misgivings about voting online; arrisal of new ethical questions from new technologies. 2. Working world and social things: expected changes in the working world regarding occupational further education, work stress, change of occupation, working hours and start of pension; assessment of influence of new technologies on situation in job market; necessity of computer knowledge in the job search, at work and adequate acquisition in school (scale); attitude to acceptance of costs of computer schooling by beneficiary or government; work satisfaction regarding income, job security, activity exercised, working hours and commuting times to place of work; frequency of change of job in the last 5 years and similarity of job requirements in the current and previous job; reasons for change of occupation or not; necessity of acquisition of new skills for occupational future and reasons for this; participation in measures for further education and reasons for non-participation. 3. Mobility: moving frequency in the last 10 years and destination of move; reasons for last move and for not moving; intent to move in the next 5 years, destination and reasons to move; preference not to move and to remain...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

02/01/2001 - 18/02/2001

Country

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

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

2012

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

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