Eurobarometer Series Holdings and Descriptions

What is the Eurobarometer Series? These surveys are the products of a unique program of crossnational and crosstemporal social science research. In 1974, the Commission of the European Community launched the Eurobarometer series, designed to provide a regular monitoring of the social and political attitudes of the publics of the nine member nations: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, and Luxembourg. These Eurobarometers are carried out in the spring and fall of each year. In addition to obtaining regular readings of support for European integration and the perceived quality of life, each of the Eurobarometers has explored a variety of special topics. Also, attitudes toward the organization and role of the European Parliament have been explored in many Eurobarometers, beginning with Eurobarometer 7 in spring 1977. The Eurobarometer surveys have included Greece since fall 1980 (Number 14), Portugal and Spain since fall 1985 (Number 24), the former German Democratic Republic since fall 1990 (Number 34), Finland since spring 1993 (Number 39), and Sweden and Austria since fall 1994 (Number 42). In addition, Norway has occasionally been included since fall 1991 (Number 36). The surveys were conducted by EOS-Gallup Europe.

This description was taken from the ICPSR website. For more information on the Eurobarometer series or related surveys, please visit the official Eurobarometer website.

Notes for Users: Below you will find a list of all Eurobarometer survey files that are in the Electronic Data Center's Holdings. Each list provides the title and year of the survey along with a brief blurb about the specifics of this particular study's contents. Each study has one or more particular themes or topics of investigation. These themes oftentimes focus on questions related to the European Union, but sometimes delve into slightly less political-economic topics. Each Eurobarometer study does contain a common set of questions on the respondent's awareness of and attitudes towards the European Union, general level of political awareness and involvement, and overall life satisfaction. Additionally, each survey queries respondents on a standard set of demographic variables, including gender, race, religion and religiosity, educational attainment, occupation, income, nationality, class, ideology, and marital status. Note that the availability and measurement of such variables is not always constant across time and country.

Clicking on the Eurobarometer study number will take the user to a separate page containing the available downloads for that study. Patrons are advised to use this page to identify potential studies of interest, then to follow the link to the downloads page and examine the codebook and/or questionnaire before downloading the data set.

Users may also be interested in the Central and Eastern Eurobarometer series, which interview respondents in the post-communist countries.

Our holdings of Eurobarometer data are from the ICPSR. Additional data files are available from the German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS). GESIS also has a search engine for Eurobarometer codebooks and questionnaires that is very useful for identifying the topical contents of individual studies.




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