Eurobarometer 35.0 (1991)

1. European integration; 2. Energy questions, environmental protection and radioactivity. Topics: 1. European integration: general life satisfaction; satisfaction with democracy; opinion leadership; frequency of political discussions; postmaterialism; trust in the Americans and Russians; ability of the Soviet Union and the United States to solve problems in world politics; necessity of NATO; attitude to stationing US American troops in one´s country; attitude to use of military in the Gulf War; attitude to a European citizenship and feeling as European; significance of the EC for one´s own country and influence on personal life; attitude to unification of Western Europe and membership of the country in the EC; advantageousness of the membership of one´s own country in the EC; regret of a failure of the European Community; attitude to a speeded up integration, a common foreign policy and preference for a ´rapid intervention force´ to cope with crises in world politics; expected development of European integration until the year 2000; hopes or fears for the EC as well as for Germany from united Germany; attitude to EC financial aid for the Soviet Union; attitude to admission of refugees from the southern Mediterranean area, from Eastern European countries and to admission of persons seeking asylum; judgment on the proportion of foreigners from non-EC countries in one´s country and a restriction of rights of these persons; general impression of the EC Commission and the European Parliament; judgment on the success of the common EC agricultural policy and a planned agricultural reform; preference for national or European decision-making authority in selected political areas; attitude to a European Government; significance of the European Parliament and preference for an increase in authorities; areas in which an expansion of the powers of the European Parliament is supported; attitude to a European Centralbank, a common currency, a common foreign policy and defense policy; attitude to the European domestic market 1992; attitude to harmonizing the rights and duties of employers and employees in the member countries through the domestic market. 2. Energy questions, environmental protection and radioactivity: expected effect in the energy sector, on technical norms and environmental protection as well as classification of personal importance of these changes; importance of the fight against unemployment and poverty as well as the securing of the energy supply, environmental protection and support of under-developed regions in the country; classification of the significance of the greenhouse effect, acid rain and destruction of the ozone layer; knowledge about the most important causes; assessment of price stability, the security of supply and environmental pollution of the individual energy sources; attitude to atomic energy; frequency of obtaining news from television, daily newspaper and radio; most important sources of information about risks of radioactivity; satisfaction with extent to which informed about radio activity and most important reasons for satisfaction or dissatisfaction with such information; trust in scientists, teachers, authorities and environment groups regarding information about radioactivity; most important characteristics of trustworthy sources of information about radioactivity; assessment of the dangers from nuclear power plants and storage of radioactive wastes (scale); situations in which one is exposed to increased radioactive radiation. Demography: self-classification on a left-right continuum; party allegiance and party preference (Sunday question); behavior at the polls in the last election; party affiliation and union membership; marital status; age at end of education; sex; age; size of household; number of children in household; monthly household income; occupational 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; start of interview; length of interview; presence of third persons during interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate. Indices: opinion leadership (cognitive mobility); postmaterialism; attitude to Europe; status in profession; party preference at state level and on European level; EC support; support for the EC domestic market; media usage. The following questions were posed in Luxembourg: knowledge about the EC presidency of one´s own country and significance of this presidency for the country.