Summary information

Study title

Eurobarometer 67.3 (May-Jun 2007)

Creator

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

Study number / PID

ZA4561, Version 2.1.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.10985 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

General health care services and long-term care for elderly people. Undeclared work. EU relations with neighbouring countries. EU development aid. Attitude towards the design of the euro. Topics: 1. General health care services and long-term care for elderly people (only in EU27, HR, TR): limited activities due to physical or mental handicap in the last six months; significant permanent difficulty with regard to doing selected activities; assessment of the quality of the following health care services in the own country: hospitals, dental care, medical or surgical specialists, family doctors or general practitioners, care services for dependent people, nursing homes; availability and accessibility of the aforementioned services; affordability of the aforementioned services; no use of the aforementioned services due to lack of access or availability or due to costs; best options for elderly parents who can no longer live alone; attitude towards the following statements on the care of elderly: public authorities should provide appropriate services, general insurance scheme to finance care, use proceeds from sale or borrowing own house or flat to finance care, obligation of children to pay for parents, obligation of close relatives to care, income for people who care for relatives, possibility of support from professional carers on special occasions; personal experience with long-term care in the last ten years; appropriateness of long-term care; kind of personal involvement; place of residence of person in need; payments for care of own parents; percentage of household income already paid or expected to be paid for parents’ care; already given up work or expected to do so to care for parents; expectation to become dependent oneself; concern about becoming dependent; expected appropriateness of help; expected and preferred way of help; most likely source of payment for personal care; reasons for not receiving appropriate help; recommended frequency of medical...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

25/05/2007 - 27/06/2007

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, Turkey, Croatia

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability Sample: Multistage Sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interviewFace-to-face interview: CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview)

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2012

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

Related publications

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