Summary information

Study title

The Young Generation and European Unification

Creator

Weidenfeld, Werner (Institut für Politikwissenchaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz)
Bundesministerium für Jugend, Familie, Frauen und Gesundheit, Bonn

Study number / PID

ZA2001, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2001 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitudes of young people to Europe. Interest in European get-togethers. Topics: Free association with Europe and supported associations with the European Community; knowledge about the countries geographically belonging to Europe; most important political problems (issue relevance); attitude to a united Europe (scale); assessment of the future development of united Europe; information on stays abroad in other European countries; contacts with people in other European countries; situations and forms of get-together; feeling of belonging to Europe; perceived things in common in contacts with Europeans; identification as European; level of information regarding Europe; significance of European symbols; necessity of a European currency; regret of failure of European unification; preference for national or European solution of selected political controversies; assessment of the impact on the Federal Republic, Europe or the entire world from these problems; desire for more influence of Europe in the world; attitude to support of poorer EC countries, even at disadvantage for the Federal Republic; preferred countries for organized get-togethers with young people; desired composition and preferred language at such get-togethers; assessment of the development of general friendship between the EC countries; influence of decisions of other EC countries on one´s own country; interest in private and occupational stays abroad; general interest in European neighboring countries; interest in politics; party preference; assessment of the importance of decisions at municipal level, state parliament level, Federal Parliament level, the level of the European Parliament and the United Nations; political participation; sources of information about Europe; interest in selected political topics; source of information about events in Europe or European politics.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

10/1987 - 11/1987

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified quota sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1991

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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