EU-Profiler: User Profiles in the 2009 European Elections - Respondent-level Data for Belgium (Flemish)

The EU Profiler is a Voting Advice Application (VAA) running during the European Elections of 2009. Respondents are situated in a political spectrum, according to their positioning with regard to 30 statements on:
(a) Welfare, family and health: welfare programmes maintained even if taxes increase, privatization of healthcare services, increase in subsidies for childcare;
(b) Migration and immigration: encourage immigration of skilled workers, restrict immigration;
(c) Society, religion and culture: legalisation of same sex marriages, greater respect for religious values in politics, decriminalisation of soft drugs, legalisation of euthanasia;
(d) Finances and taxes: reduction of government spending, tax-raising powers for EU, bail out failing banks with public money;
(e) Economy and work: reduction of workers´ protection regulation, reduction of EU subsidies to farmers;
(f) Environment, transport and energy: support for renewable sources of energy, promotion of public transport, fighting global warming;
(g) Law and order: restrictions of civil liberties, more severe punishment for criminals;
(h) Foreign policy: EU should speak with one voice, EU should strengthen security and defence policy;
(i) European integration; EU integration is good, Belgium is better off in the EU, accession of Turkey, more power to EP, less veto power for individual member states, referendum on treaty in Belgium;
(j) Country specific items: election of MPs out of country-wide constituency, cut down social expenses to prepare for future costs of ageing society.
Respondents could rate subjective salience for all issues.

An additional questionnaire asks about:
quality of results from EU-Profiler; help to decide about vote; change of vote decision; increase interest in EP election; increase interest in politics; increase motivation to participate in EP election; refrains from participating in EP election; no change of intention to vote; left indifferent; compass useful; previous use of profiler; media use for political information; political information before EP election; political efficacy; political interest; vote intention EP elections; vote at last election EP; vote intention national parliament; importance for democracy: equal chances to access courts, free and fair elections, referenda, governments do what is right, new technologies for participation; satisfaction with national democracy; satisfaction with european democracy; attitude towards further integration of EU;
trust in: national parliament, European parliament, national Government, European Commission, political parties; national government of experts; european government of experts; approval of national government´s record; participation to elections; self-placement on a left-right continuum.

Demography: gender; place of birth; nationality; country of residence; marital status; highest level of education; occupational status; sector of employment; place of residence; duration of residence; denomination; church attendance; self-assessment of religiousness; number of children; number of people in household; household income.

Also encoded was: language user selected; spectrum position x-axis; spectrum position y-axis; nearest party in country spectrum; furthest party in country spectrum; nearest party in EU spectrum; furthest party in EU spectrum; scores on liberal society, expanded welfare axis, economic liberalisation axis, restrictive financial policy axis, law and order axis, immigration policy axis, environmental protection axis.

欧盟分析器（EU Profiler）是一款在2009年欧洲议会（European Parliament, EP）选举期间运行的投票咨询应用（Voting Advice Application, VAA）。受访者将根据其对30项议题陈述的立场，被置于政治光谱之中，这些议题涵盖：
(a) 福利、家庭与卫生：即使上调税收亦需维持福利计划、医疗服务私有化、增加儿童保育补贴；
(b) 移民与入境：鼓励技术工人移民、限制移民；
(c) 社会、宗教与文化：同性婚姻合法化、政治领域对宗教价值观的更多尊重、软性毒品除罪化、安乐死合法化；
(d) 财政与税收：削减政府开支、赋予欧盟征税权限、使用公共资金救助濒临破产的银行；
(e) 经济与就业：放宽劳工保护规制、削减欧盟对农民的补贴；
(f) 环境、交通与能源：支持可再生能源、推广公共交通、应对全球变暖；
(g) 法律与秩序：限制公民自由、对罪犯施以更严厉的刑罚；
(h) 外交政策：欧盟应秉持统一外交立场、欧盟应强化安全与防务政策；
(i) 欧洲一体化：欧盟一体化进程有益、比利时留在欧盟更具优势、土耳其加入欧盟、赋予欧洲议会更多权力、减少单个成员国的否决权、比利时就欧盟条约举行公投；
(j) 国别特定议题：从全国选区选举议员、削减社会开支以应对未来老龄化社会的相关成本。
受访者可对所有议题的主观重要性进行评分。

另有一份附加问卷，调研内容包括：欧盟分析器的结果质量、对投票决策的辅助作用、投票意向的变更、对欧洲议会选举兴趣的提升、对政治事务兴趣的提升、参与欧洲议会选举的积极性增强、放弃参与欧洲议会选举、投票意向无变化、无明确倾向、该指南工具的实用性、此前是否使用过分析器、获取政治信息的媒体渠道、欧洲议会选举前的政治信息获取情况、政治效能感、政治兴趣、欧洲议会选举投票意向、上一次欧洲议会选举的投票记录、国民议会选举投票意向、对民主的重视维度（含平等诉诸法院的机会、自由公正的选举、公投制度、政府履职尽责、参与式新技术）、对本国民主的满意度、对欧洲民主的满意度、对欧盟进一步一体化的态度；
对以下主体的信任程度：国民议会、欧洲议会、本国政府、欧盟委员会（European Commission）、政党；专家型本国政府、专家型欧洲政府；对本国政府执政表现的认可度、选举参与情况、自我在左翼-右翼光谱中的定位。

人口统计学变量涵盖：性别、出生地、国籍、居住国、婚姻状况、最高教育水平、职业身份、就业部门、居住地点、居住时长、宗教教派、礼拜参与频率、自我宗教性评估、子女数量、家庭人数、家庭收入。

此外还编码了以下变量：用户选定的语言、光谱横轴位置、光谱纵轴位置、本国政治光谱中最接近的政党、本国政治光谱中最疏远的政党、欧盟政治光谱中最接近的政党、欧盟政治光谱中最疏远的政党，以及在自由社会、扩大福利轴、经济自由化轴、紧缩财政政策轴、法律与秩序轴、移民政策轴、环境保护轴上的得分。