Eurobarometer 24 (1985)

The main focus of Eurobarometer 24 are questions on the European Community. Topics: assessment of personal prospects for the future in the next year; expected company conflicts (strikes) and international conflicts in the next year; perceived danger of war; assessment of the general as well as one´s own economic situation; contentment with life; satisfaction with democracy in the country; personal opinion leadership; postmaterialism index; familiarity of the EUREKA project; frequency of political discussions with friends; trust in national government; national pride; feeling of being a citizen of Europe; willingness to go to war for one´s own country; attitude to planned EC-wide uniform signs at border-crossings; familiarity and evaluation of the European Parliament; significance of the European Parliament for personal life; attitude to an increase in importance of the European Parliament; preference for national or European decision-making responsibility in selected political questions; attitude to majority decisions in EC committees; preference for the term European Community or Common Market; benefit of EC membership for one´s own country; regret of a failure of the EC; attitude to mutual aid for member countries with economic difficulties; personal willingness to make sacrifices for this through increased tax payments; attitude to unification of Western Europe and a united Europe; estimate of time interval until a political unification will be completed; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; attitude to social changes; importance of God (scale); feeling of happiness; approval of import restrictions to secure jobs in the country; attitude to import duty on foods to protect domestic agriculture; attitude to the USA and assessment of the relations between one´s own country and the United States; assumed attitude of the USA to European unification; assessment of the usefulness of economic relations of one´s own country to the USA and Japan; party allegiance; party preference. Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); religious denomination; school education; occupational position; employment; company size; household income; size of household; composition of household; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household; person managing household; party preference (Sunday question); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; city size; union membership; memberships; age at conclusion of school or university education(classified).Interviewer rating: ZIP (postal) code; date of interview.