Euro-Barometer 16: Noise and Other Social Problems, October 1981 (ICPSR 9022)

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/ICPSR09022.v2

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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, whether they discussed political matters, what their country's goals should be for the next ten years, and how they viewed the need for societal change. Additional questions focused on the respondents' knowledge of and opinions on the European Community (EC), including how well-informed they felt about the EC, what sources of information about the EC they used, 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 noise and other social problems. Respondents were asked about the existence of and degree of disturbance caused by various traffic and street noises, mechanical noises, and noisy neighbors. A battery of questions about social and political issues also was asked, e.g., inequality of income, nuclear energy, terrorism, expansion of private industry, military defense, the economy, the environment, and regional autonomy. Demographic information about the respondents includes age, sex, religion, marital status, age upon completion of full-time education, occupation of head of household, composition of household, subjective size of town, and family income. Several constructed indices also are included. Euro-Barometer 16 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 October 1981.

Citation

Rabier, Jacques-Rene, Riffault, Helene, and Inglehart, Ronald. Euro-Barometer 16: Noise and Other Social Problems, October 1981. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-03-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09022.v2

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SES-8208333)

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)

1981-10

Date of Collection

1981-10

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 German, Dutch, Danish, and Irish populations, a national weight variable was constructed for those nations. A United Kingdom weight adjusts the British and Northern Irish respondents to their respective proportions in the United Kingdom.

  3. Access to GESIS data and documentation, including the GESIS DOI, for Eurobarometer 16 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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Sample

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

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Citizens of the EC aged 15 and over residing in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the 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 16: Noise and Other Social Problems, October 1981. ICPSR09022-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-03-27. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09022.v2

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, an 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 three weight variables, V6 (NATN WGT), V7 (EURO WGT), and V8 (UK WGT), that users may wish to apply during analysis.

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Notes