Summary information

Study title

Flash Eurobarometer 231 (Attitudes towards the EU in the United Kingdom)

Creator

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

Study number / PID

ZA4878, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.4878 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitudes in the United Kingdom towards the EU.
Topics: awareness of the 50th birthday of the EU; awareness of the charity exhibition football match; source of the information; assessment of the charity exhibition football match as part of the celebrations; assessment of benefits for British football from continental European football players and managers; assessment of the EU’s role in securing peace, prosperity and democracy for its member countries; assessment of the UK’s EU membership in terms of: travel, work, study, buy property, take holidays, transfer money; responsibility for benefits in the aforementioned fields: national government, local government, EU; assessment of the EU membership with regard to greater influence of the UK on the following issues: fight climate change, fight international terrorism, advance freer trade; estimated proportion of UK trade with the EU compared to the US (in percent); preferred political priorities for the EU; attitude towards indefinite extension of the UK’s use of imperial measures alongside their metric equivalents; preferred measurements to work with; awareness of the reduction of mobile phone roaming costs; attitude towards EU actions to tackle climate change; attitude towards more EU regulation with regard to the following issues: increase use of renewable energy, reduce traffic congestion, invest in other forms of transport, improve energy efficiency in domestic households; willingness to prevent climate change by supporting the following measures: wind turbines near residential area, reduce private car use, finance improved public transport, reduce personal carbon footprint, personal carbon-tax allowance. Demography: sex; age; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; region; type of community. Additionally coded was: respondent ID; interviewer ID; language of the interview; country; date of interview; time of the beginning of the interview; duration of the interview; weighting factor.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

15/01/2008 - 01/02/2008

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Telephone interview

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2009

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

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