Euro-barometer 29: Environmental Problems and Cancer, March-April 1988 (ICPSR 9083)

Version Date: Mar 27, 2017

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Principal Investigator(s):
Karlheinz Reif, Commission of the European Community; Anna Melich, Commission of the European Community

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09083.v2

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Summary

The major focuses of this Euro-Barometer survey are the environment and personal health. Opinions were sought on environmental issues such as nuclear accidents and radioactivity, pollution, and conservation of natural resources, as well as on the activities surrounding the European Year of the Environment. Health-related issues focused on cancer: smoking, knowledge and views regarding the causes of cancer, the extent of its occurrence in society, and medical recommendations for its early detection and prevention. Respondents were also asked if they had undergone medical examinations to screen for cancer. Women were questioned about specific kinds of cancer detection examinations as well. Other health-related items concerned dietary regimens and sports activities. In addition, respondents were asked about political party preferences, life satisfaction, views on national goals and national achievements, and attitudes toward the Economic Community and its policies, especially the Economic Community's Common Agricultural Policy, the European Parliament, the creation of the single common market in 1992, and use of daylight savings time. The data include demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic information on respondents.

Citation

Reif, Karlheinz, and Melich, Anna. Euro-barometer 29: Environmental Problems and Cancer, March-April 1988. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-03-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09083.v2

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SES 85-12100, and SES 88-09098)

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)

1988-03 -- 1988-04

Date of Collection

1988-03-18 -- 1988-04-29

Data Collection Notes

  1. Access to GESIS data and documentation, including the GESIS DOI, for Eurobarometer 29 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

Multistage probability samples and stratified quota samples.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Persons aged 15 and over residing in the 12 member nations of the European Community: Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, and West Germany (including West Berlin).

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

1990-12-04

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:
  • Reif, Karlheinz, and Anna Melich. Euro-barometer 29: Environmental Problems and Cancer, March-April 1988. ICPSR09083-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-03-27. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09083.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.

1990-12-04 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:

  • 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 (NATION WEIGHT I), V8 (NATION WEIGHT -2-), and V9 (EUROPEAN WEIGHT), that users may wish to apply during analysis.

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Notes