ICPSR resources Featuring the Eurobarometer Surveys and World

ICPSR resources Featuring the Eurobarometer Surveys and World Value Surveys available from ICPSR Links to these resources can be found at: http: //www. lawrence. edu/fac/isaacsok/mitc-icpsr. html

Overview Standard Eurobarometer (1970 -73, 1974 ff. ) ¢ Flash Eurobarometer (1991 ff. ) ¢ Central and Eastern Eurobarometer (1990 -1997) ¢ Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (2001 ff. ) ¢

Standard Eurobarometer (a. k. a. Euro-Barometer) ¢ ¢ ¢ Biannual face-to-face interviews EC/EU member countries 1970 -1973, 1974 ff. Standard sample size – 1000 Attitudes towards the European unification, European Union institutions and European policies Socio-cultural and socio-political orientations such as quality of life, cultural identity, political attitudes and participation

Standard EB - Special Topics supplementary surveys since 1990: ¢ Agriculture, biotechnology, energy, environment, European elections, gender roles, health related issues, immigration and xenophobia, new information society issues, poverty and social exclusion, regional identity, science and technology, urban traffic, working conditions, youth and elderly studies…

Flash Eurobarometer ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ Telephone interviews EU member countries Standard sample size = 500 Reduced demography Ad-hoc surveys on current affairs (1991 ff. ) Monthly monitor series (1994 -1995) Special target group surveys (managers) Topical series (euro, internet, etc. )

Central and Eastern Eurobarometer (CEEB) ¢ ¢ ¢ Annual face-to-face interviews 1990 -1997 Up to 20 countries of the region Standard sample size = 1000 Monitoring economic and political changes Attitudes towards Europe and the European Union Applicant countries EB since October 2001 (also referred to as “candidate countries” EB

Eurobarometer Data Service http: //www. gesis. org/en/data_service/ eurobarometer/guide/ ¢ Series description ¢ Principal investigators ¢ Participating countries ¢ Fieldwork procedures (sampling, interviews) ¢ Weighting information ¢

Eurobarometer Data Service – identifying relevant topics and related surveys ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ Cultural and national identity International relations Living conditions Political attitudes, participation… Cultural identity Education Family Gender roles Leisure Public health

NESSTAR Networked Social Science Tools and Resources http: //www. nesstar. org/ ¢ Browsing, identifying data ¢ Must install client on pc and register to use ¢

World Values Surveys ¢ ¢ ¢ worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change builds on the European Values Surveys, first carried out in 1981 Second wave 1990 -1991 third wave was carried out in 1995 -1996 fourth wave is taking place in 1999 -2001

World Values Surveys (WVS) hundreds of publications in more than a dozen languages ¢ Subsets used in textbooks and computer programs ¢ grew out of a study launched by the European Values Survey group (EVS) ¢ Original motivation said to be study of decline of church attendance ¢

World Values Surveys More historical information at http: //wvs. isr. umich. edu/index. html ¢ Overview in figures http: //wvs. isr. umich. edu/wvs-fig. html ¢ Countries included 1995 -1998 & sampling information: http: //wvs. isr. umich. edu/wvs-samp. html ¢ More countries added for current survey ¢

Data from ICPSR Two-year embargo while PIs report on the results ¢ 2000 -2001 questionnaire available at http: //wvs. isr. umich. edu/wvssamp. html ¢

WVS – more countries Country index, 2000 survey http: //www. worldvaluessurvey. com/sta tistics/index. html ¢ Data file from 2001 survey will be available from ICPSR in April 2004 ¢

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