Summary information

Study title

Flash Eurobarometer 354 (Entrepreneurship in the EU and Beyond)

Creator

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

Study number / PID

ZA5789, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.11590 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitudes towards entrepreneurship.Topics: preferred employment status: employed, self-employed; reasons for preferred employment status; preference to work for selected kinds of companies: family business, not family owned business; reasons for preference to work in family business; reasons for preference to work in not family owned business; feasibility to become self-employed within the next five years; reasons for non-feasibility; desire to become self-employed within the next five years; participation in courses about entrepreneurship; attitude towards the following statements on personal school education with regard to entrepreneurship: helpful to develop entrepreneurial attitude, helpful to understand role of entrepreneurs in society, made interested in becoming entrepreneur, has given essential skills; attitude towards selected statements on entrepreneurs: create benefit for society, only think of themselves, are job creators, take advantage of other people’s work; activities in starting a business; considerations with regard to starting a business; current situation in own business; importance of each of the following issues in the decision to start a business: dissatisfaction with previous job situation, appropriate business idea, contact with appropriate business partner, getting necessary financial resources, role model, addressing special needs; reasons for starting own business; preference to set up new business or to take over existing one; most important risks for setting up a business; attitude towards selected groups of people: entrepreneurs, top managers, professions; use of an assumed heritage; importance of each of the following issues with regard to starting a business: lack of financial support, complex administrative procedures, find information on how to start a business, risk of failure, possibility to have a second chance; main sources of income; type of own business: started from scratch, take over from other owner, family...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

15/06/2012 - 08/08/2012

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, Iceland, Croatia, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Norway, Brazil, Japan, United States of America, China, India, Korea, Republic of

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: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI)
Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2013

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

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