Euro-barometer 15: Membership in the European Community, April 1981 (ICPSR 7959)

Version Date: Mar 27, 2017

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Principal Investigator(s):
Jacques-Rene Rabier, Commission of the European Communities; Helene Riffault, Faits et Opinions; Ronald Inglehart, University of Michigan. Center for Political Studies

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07959.v3

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Summary

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.

Citation

Rabier, Jacques-Rene, Riffault, Helene, and Inglehart, Ronald. Euro-barometer 15: Membership in the European Community, April 1981. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-03-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07959.v3

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SOC-7914619)

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)

1981-04

Date of Collection

1981-04

Data Collection Notes

  1. The text of the British questionnaire was used in constructing the codebook.

  2. In order to produce samples more representative of the French, Dutch, British, and Danish populations, a national weight variable was constructed for those nations.

  3. Access to GESIS data and documentation, including the GESIS DOI, for Eurobarometer 15 can be found through the GESIS Data Catalogue. Additional information on the Eurobarometer Survey Series and the Eurobarometer data can be found at the GESIS Eurobarometer Web site and ZACAT, respectively.

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Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

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.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

1984-06-27

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:
  • Rabier, Jacques-Rene, Helene Riffault, and Ronald Inglehart. Euro-barometer 15: Membership in the European Community, April 1981. ICPSR07959-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-03-27. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07959.v3

2017-03-27 The SPSS setup files were updated to conform to current standards. SAS and Stata setup files, as well as SPSS and Stata system files, a SAS transport (CPORT) file, a R data file, a tab-delimited data file, and a PDF codebook have been added to the collection.

1984-06-27 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:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

The data are not weighted, however there are two weight variables, V6 (EUROPEAN WEIGHT VARIABLE) and V7 (NATION WEIGHT), that users may wish to apply during analysis.

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Notes