Eurobarometer 34.1 (Nov 1990)

The major survey focus of this Eurobarometer is:

1. Political attitude and satisfaction

2. Attitude to health and to the use of alcohol when driving

3. Attitude to the drug problem

4. Attitude to AIDS

Topics: 1. Political attitude and satisfaction: citizenship and
eligibility to vote at place of residence; contentment with life;
personal opinion leadership and frequency of political discussions;
postmaterialism index; attitude to revolutionary or cautious social
reforms.

2. Attitude to health and to the use of alcohol when driving:
knowledge about the ´ European Code against Cancer´ (program to combat
cancer); use of cigarettes; intended reduction in use of cigarettes;
vacation or business trips with a motor vehicle to other EC countries;
knowledge about blood-alcohol limits and the punishments for driving
under the influence in other EC countries; driving after use of
alcohol; alcohol checks and punishments received; alternatives to
driving under the influence used after social events; preferred
government measures to limit driving under the influence; assessment of
the amount of alcohol that impairs one´s own ability to drive;
self-assessment of condition of health; judgement on the benefit to
health of one´s own nutrition; preferred and rejected materials
contained in food; frequency of consumption of products low in fat or
light products.

3. Attitude to the drug problem: classification of the drug problem as
a social, economic, moral, health or security problem; adequate
measures of national drug policy; assessment of the effectiveness of
selected measures to combat the use of drugs; familiarity with selected
drugs and assessment of their jeopardy for the health of the user;
assessment of personal difficulties in acquiring selected drugs;
possible sources of supply; use of selected drugs as well as drug
addiction in the family and circle of friends or among colleagues;
personal contact with drug addicts; institutions that should be
permitted to conduct a test for drugs; classification of the
effectiveness of selected measures to combat the use of alcohol;
personal use of alcohol on weekdays and on weekends; assessment of the
significance of drugs and alcohol at work; preferred institutions or
persons to effectively combat drugs and alcohol at work.

4. Attitude to AIDS: familiarity with the possibilities of infection
with the HIV-Virus; advantageousness of harmonizing and cooperation of
the European Community with selected measures to combat the danger of
AIDS; preferred governmental course of action with those infected by
HIV; AIDS cases in the family or circle of friends or among colleagues;
influence of the danger of AIDS on personal conduct.

Respondents between the ages of 15 and 24 years were also asked:
evaluation of selected precautionary measures in sexual conduct to
prevent an HIV infection.

The following questions were also posed to women between the ages of
22 and 60 years (except in Northern Ireland): duration of current
employment; full or part-time work and preferred time worked each week;
age at first marriage; number of children and age at birth of children;
age at start of occupation; influence of changes in family life on
professional life; times of non-employment and previous type of
occupation; reasons for giving up work; resumption of occupation at a
different level and type of employment; motive for the resumption of
occupation; type and extent of employment after birth of the individual
children; reasons for part-time work or continual occupation; type of
employment of partner; child care; employment of cleaning help;
division of labor with partner in household; frequency of problems with
child care; preferred form of division of work and child care.

Demography: self-classification on a left-right continuum; party
membership; union membership; marital status; age at end of education;
sex; age; size of household; number of children in household; monthly
household income; ccupational 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;
status in profession.