Description & Citation--Study No. 8434

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

08434

Title:

European Communities Studies, 1973-1984: Cumulative File

Principal Investigator(s):

Inglehart, Ronald

Rabier, Jacques-Rene

Riffault, Helene

Funding:

European Commission

National Science Foundation (NSF: SES 8208333)

Bibliographic Citation:

Inglehart, Ronald, Jacques-Rene Rabier, and Helene Riffault. European Communities Studies, 1973-1984: Cumulative File. ICPSR08434-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 198?. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08434.v1

Series:

Eurobarometer Survey Series

Scope of Study

Summary:

This data collection contains cumulative attitudinal and demographic variables, in comparable form, selected from EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES STUDIES, 1973 (ICPSR 7330) and EURO-BAROMETER 3 through EURO-BAROMETER 21 (ICPSR 7416, 7417, 7418, 7511, 7512, 7604, 7727, 7728, 7752, 7778, 7957, 7958, 7959, 9022, 9023, 9057, 8152, 8234, and 8263). The questions selected were asked in at least four surveys and in many cases were asked in nearly all of the 20 individual surveys. This allows the user to run cumulative or longitudinal analyses using the year of the survey as a variable. Some of the attitudinal variables selected from the individual studies are: the respondent's overall life satisfaction, amount of social change desired, left/right political orientation, support of the Common Market, strength of religious attachment, and the political party for which the respondent would vote. Other variables provide information on respondents' views toward nuclear power, income equality, terrorism, military defense, and pollution. Cumulative demographic information includes age, sex, marital status, household composition, occupation, religion, income quartiles, age at which the respondent left school, town size, and region. Three indices constructed by the principal investigators -- cognitive mobilization, materialist/post-materialist values, and left/center/right vote -- are also included. The surveys were conducted on representative samples of respondents who were interviewed in the ten nations of the EC: Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Greece.

Subject Terms:

developing nations, economic integration, energy policy, European Economic Community, European Parliament, European unification, European Union, foreign aid, income distribution, life satisfaction, military strength, national interests, nuclear energy, political attitudes, political participation, political party preference, pollution, public opinion, quality of life, religious beliefs, social attitudes, terrorism, voter preferences

Geographic Coverage:

Belgium, Denmark, Europe, France, Germany, Global, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands

Time Period:

  • 1973--1984

Date of Collection:

  • 1973--1984

Universe:

Citizens of the EC aged 15 and over residing in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

Data Types:

survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The survey was conducted by Faits et Opinions, Paris, France.

Methodology

Sample:

The sampling designs were either multistage national probability samples or national stratified quota samples.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing:

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

1985-10-09

Dataset(s):

  • DS1: Main Data
  • DS2: Codebook Appendix

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