Eurobarometer 35.1 (Apr 1991)

1. Conduct at purchase and sale of EC products, attitude to the
European domestic market 1992;

2. Attitude to the volume of traffic;

3. Attitude to biotechnology.

Topics: 1. Conduct at purchase and sale of EC products: attitude to
the European domestic market 1992: citizenship and eligibility to vote
at place of residence; opinion leadership and frequency of political
discussions; postmaterialism; approval or rejection of the unification
of Western Europe; attitude to EC membership of the country; advantages
or disadvantages for the country from EC membership; purchase of
selected products and services from other EC countries; order as well
as manner of payment for selected products and services of suppliers
from foreign countries in the EC; general satisfaction with purchases
of EC products; manner of difficulties experienced (e.g. with delivery,
customs and payment) with EC transactions; preferred sources of
information and institutions on purchase or sale in other EC countries;
trust in selected products from foreign countries; country images
regarding product groups and product quality; most important obstacles
to business with other EC countries; knowledge of EC-initiated measures
for consumer protection in one´s country; knowledge about the European
domestic market 1992 and expected changes; general attitude to
dismantling of customs barriers.

2. Attitude to volume of traffic: residence as well as job in a
metropolitan area; judgement on the change in the volume of traffic in
the last 10 years; ability to bear the consequences of changed volume
of traffic; evaluation of consequence of traffic regarding quality of
life and air pollution; assessment of the danger of accidents for
various road-users such as pedestrians, cyclists, car drivers and users
of public transportation; preferred possibilities to solve traffic
conflicts between private and public transport, between car drivers,
bicycle riders and pedestrians; agreement of traffic policy decisions
with the opinion of the population; frequency of use of selected public
and private means of transportation; major reasons for not using or
using public transportation; attitude to selected measures to reduce
the volume of individual traffic and problem solutions for traffic jams
(scale).

3. Attitude to biotechnology: expected developments in selected
research areas and their influence on every-day life; knowledge about
biotechnology and assignment of selected research projects to
biotechnology; attitude to biotechnological research on plants,
microorganisms, animals, foods, medications, vaccines and people;
judgement on biotechnological animal experiments from a moral view;
assessment of personal ability to judge on these questions; primary
sources of information about more recent developments that could
influence life; trust in selected sources of information on
biotechnology.

Demography: self-classification on a left-right continuum; party
affiliation and union membership; marital status; age at end of
education; sex; age; size of household; number of children in
household; monthly household income; occupational position; employment
in the civil service or private enterprise (company sector); company
size; supervisor status; position in household; occupation of head of
household; self-assessment of social class; residential status; degree
of urbanization; religious denomination; frequency of church
attendance; religiousness; 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.