Summary information

Study title

Eurobarometer 42 (Nov-Dec 1994)

Creator

European Commission, Brussels; DG X - Information Communication Culture Surveys Research Analyses

Study number / PID

ZA2563, Version 1.0.1 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.10911 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitude to European unification, the European Parliament and further development of the Union. Topics: General contentment with life; postmaterialism; expected development of personal situation, one´s own financial situation and the job situation in the coming year; expected general economic development of the country; frequency of obtaining news from television, radio and daily newspapers; national pride and reasons for national pride (split: exchange of the sequence of general determination and naming of reasons); attitude to pride in the nation; self-classification of political orientation. Europe: general interest in politics and special interest in European politics; satisfaction with democracy at municipal, national and European level; European citizenship; self-classification of general extent to which informed about the European Union; approval of European unification; attitude to membership of the country in the EU and advantageousness of membership for one´s own country; regret of a failure of the EU; judgement on the speed of unification of the EU and desired progress of this unification; desired national or European responsibility for political departments and for selected political measures; desire for increased information about the European Union; perceived information about the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, the European Court of Justice, the Common Market and the Maastricht Treaty (split: in the last three months versus recently); personal hopes in the Common Market; hopes in the Common Market regarding the job market, trade, competition, the economic situation and social policies; reasons and type of concerns regarding the Common Market; approval of future membership in the EU for Austria, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia; familiarity of those countries who conducted a referendum regarding joining the EU; familiarity of...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

14/11/1994 - 31/12/1994

Country

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random 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

2012

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

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