Eurobarometer 95.1 (2021)

Since the early 1970s the European Commission´s Standard & Special Eurobarometer are regularly monitoring the public opinion in the European Union member countries. Principal investigators are the Directorate-General Communication and on occasion other departments of the European Commission or the European Parliament. Over time, candidate and accession countries were included in the Standard Eurobarometer Series. Selected questions or modules may not have been surveyed in each sample. Please consult the basic questionnaire for more information on country filter instructions or other questionnaire routing filters. In this study the following modules are included: 1. European Parliament Spring Survey, 2. Climate change, 3. Justice, Rights and Values, 4. EU consumer habits regarding fishery and aquaculture products.<br>Topics: 1. European Parliament Spring Survey: awareness of measures taken by the EU to respond to the Coronavirus pandemic; satisfaction with these measures; EU should have more competences to deal with crises such as the Coronavirus pandemic; satisfaction with solidarity between EU member states in fighting the Coronavirus pandemic; preferred EU measures to respond to the Corona crisis; preferred statement with regard to the consequences of the restriction measures in the own country: health benefits are greater than economic damage, economic damage is greater than health benefits; current emotional status; impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on personal income; preferred topics to be addressed by the European Parliament; attitude towards the following statements about the Conference on the Future of Europe: should specifically involve young people to foster new ideas, would represent significant progress for democracy within the EU, would have no real impact, should deal in priority with how the EU could better handle crises such as the coronavirus pandemic; willingness to take part in the activities of the Conference on the Future of Europe; attitude towards the EU; EU image; development of this image over the last year; use of selected online social networks in the last week; purpose of use: watch photo and video content, share own opinion publicly, discuss within social media groups, send direct messages to friends and family, play video games, follow news and current events, find new products to buy, share own content, professional reasons.

2. Climate change: most important problems facing the world as a whole at the moment; assessment of the seriousness of the problem of climate change; responsible bodies within the EU for tackling climate change: national governments, European Union, regional and local authorities, business and industry, citizens, environmental groups; attitude towards the following statements: promoting EU expertise in new clean technologies to countries outside the EU can help create new jobs in the EU, tackling climate change and environmental issues should be a priority to improve public health, costs of damages due to climate change are much higher than costs of investments needed for a green transition, reducing fossil fuel imports from outside the EU can benefit the EU economically, fighting climate change will lead to innovation, more public financial support should be given to the transition to clean energies, adapting to adverse impacts of climate change can have positive outcomes for EU citizens; personal actions taken in the last six months to fight climate change and kind of actions; adequateness of the actions taken by the national government; importance of the national government setting targets to increase the amount of renewable energy by 2030; importance of the following authorities providing support for improving energy efficiency by 2030: national government, EU; attitude towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions to a minimum to make European economy climate neutral by 2050; preferred investment of money from the EU recovery plan to address the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic: traditional fossil-fuelled economy, new green economy.

3. Justice, Rights and Values: self-rated knowledge about the rule of law in: own country, other EU member states; EU core values are well protected in the own country; participation in the following activities: vote in local / national / European elections, involvement in trade unions / political movements / parties, involvement in NGOs and civil society organisations, post opinions on current issues on online social networks, obtain information on current issues on online social networks, make politically motivated consumer choices, volunteering or participating in local community projects, none of these; awareness of the recent history own country shares with European countries; awareness of selected issues of EU legislation: Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, work life balance for parents and carers, equal treatment in employment and occupation, racial equality establishing a framework for combatting discrimination in the member states, victims´ rights, EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), rights of EU citizens and their families to reside freely anywhere within the EU, decision that makes certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia punishable by criminal penalties; awareness about the following awareness-raising events: Europride, EU Roma week, Access City Award, Equal Pay Day; awareness about the following initiatives and tools: Code of Conduct for countering illegal hate speech on online social networks, European Disability Card, European e-Justice portal, EU Justice Scoreboard, European Citizens´ Initiative; awareness about funds available under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme; awareness about funds available under the Justice programme.

4. EU consumer habits regarding fishery and aquaculture products: frequency of the following activities: consumption of fishery and aquaculture products at home, consumption of fishery and aquaculture products at restaurants or other food outlets, purchase of fishery and aquaculture products; reasons for not consuming fishery and aquaculture products; place of purchase; consumption frequency of each of the following types of products in the last twelve months: fresh or live products, frozen products, frozen raw fish, frozen prepared or processed fish, smoked, salted, dried products or products in brine, tinned products; impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the consumption frequency of the aforementioned products; reasons for change of consumption frequency; preference for wild or farmed products; most important aspects with regard to buying fishery and aquaculture products; importance of the following information on labels of fresh, frozen, smoked and dried products: name of product and species, wild or farmed product, area of catch or production, fishing gear, previously frozen, expiration date, environmental impact; importance of the following information on labels of tinned or prepared products: species, area of catch or production, wild or farmed, fishing gear, location of processing plant, environmental impact; desire for information on additional aspects on labels for all fishery and aquaculture products: date of catch or production, port of discharge, country in which the shipping company is located, ethical information, social information, environmental information, information on fisherman or farmer.

Demography: nationality; age; left-right self-placement; marital status; age at end of education; highest completed level of full time education; sex; occupation; professional position; type of community; household composition and household size; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; internet connection at home; financial difficulties during the last year; internet use (at home, at work, at school); self-reported belonging to the working class, the middle class or the upper class of society; life satisfaction; frequency of discussions about political matters on national, European, and local level; general direction things are going in: own country, EU, USA, personal life; optimism about the future of the EU; satisfaction with the democracy in the own country and in the EU; own voice counts in the own country and in the EU; own country’s voice counts in the EU.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; date of interview; time of the beginning of the interview; duration of the interview; size of locality; language of the interview; region; weighting factor.