Flash Eurobarometer 4023 (Civic Engagement)

Media habits. Civic engagement.<br>Topics: 1. Media habits: access news online in the last two days; kind of access: website of the news source, news aggregator app or website, articles or posts in personal online social networks or that were shared by friends, messaging app or alerts, search engine, email newsletters or notifications, email from relatives, friends, or acquaintances; reaction to the news: discuss it with relatives, friends, or colleagues, send an article or video about that news to someone, comment on or share the news on online social networks, share the news on a messaging app, leave a comment on a news website, search for more information about the topic, save the article for later, research online to try to learn more; use of selected online social networks in the last week.

2. Civic engagement: feeling of being informed by civil society organisations (CSOs) about issues that matter to the respondent personally; engagement with CSOs in the own country in the following ways: participation in demonstrations or similar activities organized by a CSO, regular volunteering in various activities for CSOs, engagement with CSOs mainly online or on social networks, actively encouraging other people to engage with a CSO, donate money to CSOs, engagement in another way, no engagement with CSOs; engagement of respondent’s CSO in European issues; factors that increase personal engagement in CSOs: conviction that personal engagement will have a real impact, knowledge how personal financial engagement will be used by the CSO, participation in concrete activities organized by CSOs, regular information on ongoing activities and projects, own opinion and input are taken into account, receive feedback on what has been achieved, choose a flexible form of engagement, other; most important topics to be treated by CSOs in the own country; impact of campaigns seen in the last two years on personal behaviour: share a video or an image from this campaign, discuss the campaign topic with relatives, friends, colleagues, decide to vote in elections, take concrete actions, take part in public discussions on the campaign topic, take part in an online consultation on the campaign topic, do some research online to find out more about the campaign topic, decide to donate money to a CSO, other; participation in public consultations in the own city in last twelve months; usefulness of the initiative; reasons for considering the initiative useful; reasons for considering the initiative not useful; recent reception of media reports on activities of the European Parliament; general direction things are going in the EU.

Demography: frequency of internet use; image of the EU; assessment of the own country’s membership in the EU as a good thing; age; sex; nationality; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; region; type of community; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; household composition and household size; nation group; weighting factor.
Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; type of phone line.