Study title

Judgement on parties, attitude to the EC, political attitudes. Collection of variables from three different Eurobarometers. Topics: At all three survey times the following questions were posed: election participation at the last national election and intent to participate in the next national election; behavior at the polls in the last election and party preference; general judgement on the European Parliament and EC Commission; attitude to European unification; judgement on membership of one´s own country in the EC and assessment of advantages for the country from EC membership; regret of a failure of the EC; expectations of the European domestic market; issue relevance; postmaterialism. Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children (under 15 years old); age at which respondent left school; occupation; last employment; area of business of company; company size; span of control; household income; size of household; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household; residential status; self-assessment of social class; city size (subjective, objective); future expectations (general); expected increase in strikes; expected increase in international conflicts; judgement on the economic development of the country and of personal household in the past year; contentment with life (scale); assessment of the quality of life in five years; self-classification on a left-right continuum; political interest and interest in EC policies; frequency of political discussions; personal opinion leadership; satisfaction with democracy; party identification; party membership; union membership; religiousness. Also encoded was: date of interview; time of interview; length of interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate; number of persons during the interview. The following questions were posed in only one or two surveys: intent to participate in the European Election 1989; behavior at the polls in the European Election and if appropriate reasons...