European Communities Studies, 1973-1984: Cumulative File (ICPSR 8434)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Ronald Inglehart; Jacques-Rene Rabier; Helene Riffault

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08434.v1

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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.

Citation

Inglehart, Ronald, Rabier, Jacques-Rene, and Riffault, Helene. European Communities Studies, 1973-1984: Cumulative File. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08434.v1

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Funding

European Commission, National Science Foundation (NSF: SES 8208333)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1973 -- 1984

Date of Collection

1973 -- 1984

Data Collection Notes

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

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Sample

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

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 Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1985-10-09

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:
  • 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?. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08434.v1

1985-10-09 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.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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