ICPSR Metadata record for Euro-barometer 15: Membership in the European Community, April 1981 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Euro-barometer 15: Membership in the European Community, April 1981 Rabier, Jacques-Rene Riffault, Helene Inglehart, Ronald Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 1996-12-10 7959 doi://10.3886/ICPSR07959.v2
This round of Euro-Barometer surveys queried respondents on standard Euro-Barometer measures, such as how satisfied they were with their present life, whether they attempted to persuade others close to them to share their views on subjects they held strong opinions about, and whether they discussed political matters. Additional questions focused on the respondents' knowledge of and opinions on the European Community (EC), including whether their country had benefited from being an EC member, and the extent of their personal interest in EC matters. Another major focus of the surveys was membership in the EC. Respondents were asked about the effects of EC membership on such matters as energy, employment, trade, tourism, and relations between nations. Respondents also were asked for opinions on various EC policies. Television viewing habits and interest in French culture were also measured for a subset of respondents in Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Italy. Demographic information about respondents includes age, sex, marital status, number of persons and children living in respondent's home, family income, occupation, age upon completion of full-time education, occupation of head of household, left-right self placement, size of town where respondent lives, and number of people working at respondent's workplace. Indices are included as created by the original investigators. Euro-Barometer 15 contains data gathered from representative samples of respondents who were interviewed in each of the ten nations of the EC (Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Greece) in April 1981.
 UniverseScheme07959 Eurobarometer Survey Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00026. Organization07959_1 SOC-7914619 ICPSR.XIV.C.3.a IDRC.III IDRC.VII attitudes consumer attitudes economic development economic integration employment energy policy European unification European Union international relations international trade life satisfaction nationalism political influence public opinion quality of life social change television viewing tourism Belgium, Denmark, Europe, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Global 1981-04 1981-04 survey data Citizens of the EC aged 15 and over residing in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain (including Northern Ireland), Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. personal interviews 1981-04 1981-04

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