Transatlantic Trends Survey, 2012 (ICPSR 34715)

Version Date: Aug 7, 2013

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Principal Investigator(s):
Philip Everts, Leiden University (Netherlands); Craig Kennedy, German Marshall Fund of the United States; Pierangelo Isernia, University of Siena (Italy); Zsolt Nyiri, German Marshall Fund of the United States; Richard Eichenberg, Tufts University

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34715.v1

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Summary

The aim of the Transatlantic Trends Survey 2012 was to identify the attitudes of the public in the United States, Russia and 13 European countries towards foreign policy issues and transatlantic issues. The Transatlantic Trends Survey is a continuation of the Worldviews 2002 survey undertaken by the German Marshall Fund and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. It is also part of the annual Transatlantic Trends Survey series undertaken by the German Marshall Fund and the Compagnia di San Paolo from 2003 to 2011. The 2012 survey queried respondents on topics such as whether the United States, the European Union, and Russia exert strong leadership in world affairs, opinions on certain countries or organizations and their relationships and cooperation, attitudes toward Sweden joining NATO, and the rise of China. Opinions were also collected on past and future military interventions in Middle Eastern countries, government spending, attitudes towards the euro, economics, and confidence in certain institutions of Russia. Several questions solicited views on politics and voting habits, including assessments of the current president of the United States and the upcoming presidential election. Additionally other questions included political party attachment and left-right political self-placement as well as voting intentions. Demographic and other background information includes age, gender, race, religious affiliation, education, occupation, the number of people in the household, type of locality, and region of residence.

Citation

Everts, Philip, Kennedy, Craig, Isernia, Pierangelo, Nyiri, Zsolt, and Eichenberg, Richard. Transatlantic Trends Survey, 2012. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-08-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34715.v1

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Funding

German Marshall Fund of the United States, Compagnia di San Paolo (Italy), Fundacao Luso-Americana (Portugal), Communitas Foundation (Bulgaria), Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden), Open Society Foundations

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

country

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2012-06-02 -- 2012-06-27

Date of Collection

2012-06-02 -- 2012-06-27

Data Collection Notes

  1. The original data collection was carried out by TNS, Fait et Opinion - Brussels, on request of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

  2. This data file is part of the Transatlantic Trends Series. The series starts with the Worldview Survey 2002 (together with CCFR) and continues with the Transatlantic Trend Survey 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, which are already released by ICPSR.

  3. The codebook and setup files for this collection contain characters with diacritical marks used in many European languages.

  4. Additional information on the Transatlantic Trends Survey is provided on the Transatlantic Trends Website.

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Sample

Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (except in Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Russia where face-to-face interviews were conducted due to the low telephone penetration rate in these five countries). The basic sample design applied in all states is multi-stage random (probability). In each household, the respondent was drawn at random (following the "closest birthday rule"). Up to 5 call-backs for telephone interviews and 4 visits in total for face-to-face interviews were attempted before dropping a potential respondent.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

The adult population aged 18 years and over with access to a landline telephone in 15 countries: Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, the United States, Romania, Bulgaria, and Russia. In the United States, Italy, Spain and Portugal adults with mobile phones were also targeted.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2013-08-07

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Everts, Philip, Craig Kennedy, Pierangelo Isernia, Zsolt Nyiri, and Richard Eichenberg. Transatlantic Trends Survey, 2012. ICPSR34715-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-08-07. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34715.v1

2013-08-07 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR 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, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

Please refer to the "Technical Information" section in the Original P.I. Codebook for further information about weighting.

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