Eurobarometer 37.0 (Mar-Apr 1992)

1. Attitudes to the EC,

2. Problems of environmental protection.

Topics: 1. Attitudes to the EC: citizenship and eligibility to vote at
place of residence; contentment with life; satisfaction with democracy;
opinion leadership and frequency of political discussions;
postmaterialism; frequency of obtaining news from television, radio and
newspapers; preference for a dictatorship under certain conditions;
major reasons for one´s own election participation; associations with
the terms European Community and European Union; judgement on personal
level of information about the EC; attitude to European unification and
membership of one´s own country in the EC; advantages or disadvantages
for the country from EC membership; regret of a possible failure of the
EC; knowledge about the location of selected EC institutions; future
significance of EC membership of the country for the country and the
people; most important personal interests that will be achieved through
the EC; satisfaction with the attitude of selected institutions and
persons to Europe; self-perception as European or member of a
nation-state (split: in the second case the key word ´citizen´ was
introduced in the formulation of the question); judgement on current
and desired speed of unification for Europe; knowledge about the
European flag; cities, media and events, at which the European flag was
seen; attitude to the European flag; attitude to the European
Commission; preference for a national or European decision-making
authority in selected political areas; attitude to reform of EC
agricultural policy; knowledge about the European domestic market;
expectations of the domestic market and reasons for hopes or fears;
general attitude to the domestic market and a European social policy;
expected effects from the domestic market; attitude to a European
Government and the European Parliament; general significance of the
European Parliament in selected political areas; attitude to an
increasing significance of this parliament; agreement with expanded
transfer of authority to the EC in an economic and currency union as
well as in a political unification; knowledge about the Maastricht
conference, the treaty and contents; evaluation of the significance of
the Maastricht Treaty for the EC; expected effects of the Maastricht
Treaty for the EC, for one´s own country and personal life; agreement
with admission of selected countries into the EC and positive or
negative effects originating from this for the old member countries;
willingness to pay increased taxes to support Eastern Europe; knowledge
about the most powerful EC institution; attitude to an eligibility to
vote for EC foreigners at local and EC level; attitude to admission of
Southern European job-seekers, emigrants from Eastern Europe as well as
political applicants for political asylum; judgement on the proportion
of foreigners from non-EC countries in one´s country and an extension
of their rights; perceived disturbance from presence of people of
foreign nationality, race and religion.

2. Problems of environmental protection: urgency of environmental
protection; personal concern about selected environmental problems
(scale); preference for economic growth or environmental protection;
concern about the effects of selected economic areas on the
environment; most important economic areas polluting the environment;
classification of the extent of various types of environmental
pollution in one´s residential surroundings (scale); concern about
individual areas of environmental pollution in one´s country (scale);
perceived seriousness of dangers to the environment and most important
effects of these dangers; actual commitment and general readiness for
active environmental protection (scale); assessment of the efficiency
of local, regional, national, European as well as world-wide
environmental protection institutions; need for information about
environmental protection; most trustworthy sources of information;
preferred topics for the environmental protection conference in Rio de
Janeiro; interest in information on the year of ´civil defense´.

Demography: self-classification on a left-right continuum; party
allegiance; party preference (Sunday question); behavior at the polls
in the last election; union membership; marital status; age at end of
education; resumption of school training after an interruption and
length of school training; length of further education; sex; age; size
of household; number of children in household; possession of durable
economic goods; occupational position; weekly number of working hours;
supervisor status; employment in the civil service or private
enterprise (company sector); person managing household; head of
household; age of head of household at end of education; occupation of
head of household; supervisor status of head of household;
self-assessment of social class; residential status; degree of
urbanization; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance;
religiousness; monthly household income; city size; region.

Also encoded was: date of interview; length of interview; presence of
third persons during interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate.

Indices: opinion leadership (cognitive mobility); postmaterialism;
attitude to Europe; status in profession; party preference on European
level; EC support; support for the EC domestic market; media usage.

The following questions were posed only in Norway: highest school
degree; further education and college attendance.

The following additional questions were posed only in the new states:
use of selected sources of information about the EC; perceived EC
topics; most important sources of information about occurrences in the
state, in the Federal Republic and in Europe; classification of
credibility of selected sources of information; interest in further
information about the EC; preference for brief or detailed information
on political questions; assessment of the EC role in the achievement of
equivalent standard of living between East and West Germany; knowledge
about individual EC organs and their tasks; knowledge about EC member
countries.

The following questions were posed only in Portugal: knowledge and
significance of the Portuguese EC presidency.

The following questions were posed only in Ireland: agreement with
Irish participation in a common European defense policy.