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Since the early 1970s the European Commission´s Standard & Special Eurobarometer are regularly monitoring the public opinion in the European Union member countries. Principal investigators are the Directorate-General Communication and on occasion other departments of the European Commission or the European Parliament. Over time, candidate and accession countries were included in the Standard Eurobarometer Series. Selected questions or modules may not have been surveyed in each sample. Please consult the basic questionnaire for more information on country filter instructions or other questionnaire routing filters. In this study the following modules are included: 1. Consumer empowerment.Topics: 1. Consumer empowerment: computer skills; recent internet use; frequency of internet use; place of use; internet use to compare prices and quality; purchases made by post, phone or the internet; knowledge about having the right to return goods without giving a reason and to have it repaired or replaced for free; knowledge test: the legality of the advertisement of expensive hotlines, on the right of withdrawal for new insurance contracts, on the right of return for purchases at the door, the obligation to pay for unsolicited goods; online purchase of an airline ticket; knowledge test of the rule for the advertisement of the pricing of airline tickets; reading the contract provisions at the last contract; reason for cursory reading of the contract; designation of consumer organizations in the own country; preferred medium when comparing prices; frequency of price comparison; online shopping: last online shopping; reason for abandoning an online purchase; reading the conditions of sale when shopping online; reason for inaccurate reading of the conditions of sale; location (own country, EU or rest of the world) of the online retailer; knowledge test on the consumer protection laws for online purchases from another European country; number of persons whom the respondent...