Summary information

Study title

Eurobarometer 63.4 (May-Jun 2005)

Creator

European Commission, Brussels; DG Communication Public Opinion Analysis Sector

Study number / PID

ZA4411, Version 1.1.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.10968 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitude towards the EU. EU enlargement and the European Constitution. Economy in the EU and in the world. Innovative products and services. Topics: 1. Attitude towards the EU: frequency of political discussions with friends and personal opinion leadership; life satisfaction; expected development for the next twelve months regarding: personal life in general, the financial situation of the own household, the personal job situation, the national economic and employment situation; comparison of the current personal situation with five years ago and expected development in the next five years; trust in institutions (justice, political parties, national government, national parliament, European Union, and the United Nations); assessment of the EU membership of the own country as a good thing; benefits from the EU membership for the own country; (in Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Croatia, and Northern Cyprus was asked: assessment of a future EU membership as a good thing; advantages of a future EU membership for the own country); image of the EU from the perspective of the respondent; attitude towards a European political union; meaning of the EU to the respondent; feelings towards the EU (enthusiasm or rejection); attitude towards the EU: feeling of safety, more stable economically and politically through existing or future EU membership of the own country, own political efficacy, understanding of the processes of the EU, national interests are taken into account by the EU, growing influence of the own country in the EU, superiority of the large countries in the EU; expected and desired role of the EU in daily life in five years; fears related to the European Union: power loss for smaller member states, increase in drug trafficking, less frequent use of the national language, increasing payments of the own country to the EU, loss of social benefits, loss of national identity and culture, economic crisis, transfer of jobs to other EU member countries with lower...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

09/05/2005 - 14/06/2005

Country

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

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

A multi-stage, random (probability) sampling design was used for this Eurobarometer. In the first stage, primary sampling units (PSU) were selected from each of the administrative regionals units in every country (Statistical Office of the European Community, EUROSTAT NUTS 2 or equivalent). PSU selection was systematic with probability proportional to population size, from sampling frames stratified by the degree of urbanization. In the next stage, a cluster of starting addresses was selected from each sampled PSU, at random. Further addresses were chosen systematically using standard random route procedures as every Nth address from th initial address. In each household, a respondent was drawn, at random, following the closest birthday rule. No more than one interview was conducted in each household. They were supposed to have sufficient command of one of the respective national language(s) to answer the questionnaire. Separate samples were drawn for Northern Ireland and East Germany.

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interviewFace-to-face interview: CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) was used in those countries where this technique was available

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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