Summary information

Study title

Flash Eurobarometer 363 (How Companies Influence Our Society: Citizens’ View)

Creator

European Commission, Brussels DG Communication COMM A1 ´Research and Speechwriting´

Study number / PID

ZA5882, Version 1.0.1 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.11927 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Influence of companies on society.
Topics: preferred actor to take the leading role in influencing companies’ actions in the own country: public authorities, citizens, investors, NGOs, management of companies, trade unions; self-rated knowledge about and personal interest in companies’ actions to behave responsibility towards society in the own country; assessment of the overall influence of companies on society in the own country as positive; assessment of the level of attention companies pay to their influence on the society in the own country compared with ten years ago; assessment of the efforts of selected types of companies to behave responsibility towards society in the own country: information, communication and technology companies, clothes and shoe manufacturing companies, financial and banking companies, food production and agriculture companies, mining, oil and gas industry companies, construction companies, chemical or pharmaceutical companies, retail and supermarkets, small and medium-sized companies, large companies; main positive and negative effects of companies on society in the own country; assessment of the measures to behave responsibility towards society of the company respondent works for. Demography: age; sex; nationality; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; region; type of community; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; household composition and household size. Additionally coded was: respondent ID; type of phone line; weighting factor.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

22/10/2012 - 30/11/2012

Country

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Croatia, United States of America, Israel, Brazil, China, India

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview
Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)
Face-to-face interview only in India

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2014

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

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