ESS6

The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically-driven multi-country survey, which has been administered in over 30 countries to date. Its three aims are, firstly – to monitor and interpret changing public attitudes and values within Europe and to investigate how they interact with Europe's changing institutions, secondly - to advance and consolidate improved methods of cross-national survey measurement in Europe and beyond, and thirdly - to develop a series of European social indicators, including attitudinal indicators.

In the sixth round, the survey covers 29 countries and employs the most rigorous methodologies. It is funded via the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme, the European Science Foundation and national funding bodies in each country.

The survey involves strict random probability sampling, a minimum target response rate of 70% and rigorous translation protocols. The hour-long face-to-face interview includes questions on a variety of core topics repeated from previous rounds of the survey and also two modules developed for Round Six covering Europeans’ Understandings and Evaluations of Democracy and Personal and Social Wellbeing (the latter is a partial repeat of a module from round 3).

欧洲社会调查（ESS）是一项由学术驱动的多国调查，截至目前已在30余个国家开展。其三大目标为：其一，监测并解读欧洲范围内公众态度与价值观的变化，探究其与欧洲变革中制度的相互作用；其二，推动并整合欧洲及其他地区跨国调查测量的改进方法；其三，制定一系列欧洲社会指标，包括态度指标。

第六轮调查覆盖29个国家，采用最严谨的方法论。该调查由欧盟委员会第七框架计划、欧洲科学基金会及各国国家资助机构共同资助。

调查采用严格的随机概率抽样，设定70%的最低目标应答率，并遵循严格的翻译协议。时长一小时的面对面访谈包含前几轮调查中重复出现的各类核心话题，以及为第六轮开发的两个模块——欧洲人对民主的理解与评价、个人与社会福祉（后者部分重复第三轮的模块）。