Center for Research on Social Reality [Spain] Survey Series

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Investigator(s): Centro de Investigaciones Sobre la Realidad Social (CIRES)

Studies

44

Variables

187

Publications

8

About this Collection

From October 1990 to June 1996, the Center for Research on Social Reality (Centro de Investigaciones Sobre la Realidad Social [CIRES]) conducted 52 national surveys of the population of Spain. Typically, 1,200 persons were interviewed for each survey, using a random stratified sampling design. The surveys used questionnaires comprising three sections. The first section collected information on respondents' attitudes regarding personal, national, and international issues. This section included questions on respondents' level of life satisfaction and frequency of visits with relatives, neighbors, and friends, and asked respondents to rank by importance various national and international objectives, such as protection of the environment, fighting narcotics trafficking, and guaranteeing civil liberties. The second section contained a topical module of questions that varied from survey to survey. Topics covered marriage formation and dissolution, health, religious beliefs and practices, attitudes towards immigrants, social ethics, and culture and leisure. Socioeconomic data were the focus of the third section, including respondent's sex, age, marital status, size of household, occupation, education, religion, religiosity, place of birth, and income. Spanish language questionnaires are included in the codebooks for these studies. The CIRES project was conducted by the firm Analisis Sociologicos, Economicos Y Politicos, S.A. (A.S.E.P.), with support from Fundacion BBV, Fundacion Caja de Madrid, and Fundacion Bilbao-Bizkaia-Kutxa.

Studies

44 results

Center for Research on Social Reality [Spain] Survey, January 1994: Supranational Identification

This survey was designed to measure public opinion of the Spanish population on a variety of topics relating to questions of national and supranational identity. Respondents were asked about their current situation, their concerns, degree of personal satisfaction, degree of happiness, and basic attitudes. Respondents were asked for their opinions about Spain and the world, and what they thought were the most important national and international issues. Respondents were asked about their identification with other countries and regions in around the world, as well as their knowledge of and interest in world affairs. A series of questions was also asked about their attitudes and identification with Latin America. Questions addressed the following specific topics: their knowledge of Latin American countries, their evaluation of Spanish influence in Latin America, present relations between Spain and Latin America, desired relations between Spain and Latin America, and their basic attitudes towards Spanish-Latin American relations. There was a similar series of questions relating to attitudes and identification with Europe. Respondents were asked about their knowledge of and attitudes toward the European Economic Community (EEC), the perceived benefits for Spain due to membership in the EEC, their degree of identification with Europe, their participation in European elections, the consequences of European unification, and their experience traveling in Europe. Respondents also were asked about their identification with their autonomous community and whether they identified more with it or with Spain. Demographic information includes gender, age, marital status, size of household, occupation, religion, political ideology, social class (subjective), place of birth, place of residence, education, and income.

Center for Research on Social Reality [Spain] Survey, January 1992: Supranational Identification

This data collection is part of a continuing series of semi-monthly surveys of individuals in Spain. Each survey consists of three sections. The first section collects information on respondents' attitudes regarding personal and national issues. This section includes questions on level of life satisfaction and frequency of relationships, as well as a rating of the importance of national issues. The second section varies according to the monthly topic, with this survey's topic focusing on supranational identification. Among the issues investigated are frequency of respondent's exposure to international news, feelings toward individual countries or blocks of countries, perception of level of economic development and democratic political institutions in different world regions, evaluation of present relations between Spain and Latin America, attitude toward the European Community, perceived benefits of Spanish membership in the European Community, and evaluation of respondent's sense of pride in being Spanish. The third section collects demographic data such as sex, age, religion, income, and place of residence.

Center for Research on Social Reality [Spain] Survey, May 1992: Old Age

This data collection is part of a continuing series of semi-monthly surveys of individuals in Spain. Each survey consists of three sections. The first section collects information on respondents' attitudes regarding personal and national issues. This section includes questions on level of life satisfaction and frequency of relationships, as well as a rating of the importance of national issues. The second section varies according to the monthly topic, with this survey's topic focusing on old age. Among the issues investigated are terms that better define the elderly, adults, and the young, living arrangements of the elderly, level of activity and health conditions of the elderly, work activity, leisure activities, social services used, evaluation of social services, and knowledge of public institutions serving the aged. The third section collects demographic data such as sex, age, religion, income, and place of residence.