Summary information

Study title

Eurobarometer 69.1 (Feb-Mar 2008)

Creator

Papacostas, Antonis (European Commission, Brussels DG Communication, Public Opinion Analysis Sector)

Study number / PID

ZA4743, Version 3.0.1 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.10987 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Discrimination in everyday life and in professional life. Knowledge about radioactive material. Opinion on the management of nuclear waste in the own country and at European level. Purchase of products and services. Experiences with misleading or fraudulent advertising. Rights of consumers in consumer contracts via the Internet, by phone, and by post. Cross-border shopping. Consumer protection. Topics: 1. Perceived general extent of discrimination at present and 5 years ago with regard to: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability; own experience of discrimination as well as witnessed discrimination against other persons due to the aforementioned characteristics; assumed extent of multiple discrimination in the own country; social proximity: attitude towards immediate vicinity of Sinti or Roma, disabled or homosexuals, persons of different ethnic origin or with different religious affiliation (scale); adversely acting characteristics of candidates in a concurrent application situation: name, address, way of speaking, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religious belief, smoker, physical appearance; acceptance of a person with the following characteristics in the highest political position: woman, homosexual, different ethnic origin, aged under 30, different religious belief, disabled, aged over 75 (scale); approval of measures to ensure equal opportunities; approval to monitoring the composition of the work-force and the recruitment procedures; assessment of the efforts of the own country to fight discrimination; knowledge of the own rights in the case of an experienced discrimination. 2. Radioactive waste: personal knowledge about radioactive waste; attitude towards nuclear energy in general and approval of nuclear energy in case of a safe solution for the management of radioactive waste; opinion on nuclear energy: diversifies the energy sources of the EU, reduces the dependence on oil, lower greenhouse gas...
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Methodology

Data collection period

18/02/2008 - 22/03/2008

Country

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

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability Sample: Proportionate Stratified Multistage Sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interviewCAPI (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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