EU-Profiler: User Profiles in the 2009 European Elections - Respondent-level Data for Austria

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, Austria is better off in the EU, accession of Turkey, more power to EP, less veto power for individual member states, referendum on treaty in Austria;
(j) Country specific items: right of residence for asylum seekers, introduction of comprehensive schools.
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.