Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2001.1

Attitudes towards European Union and enlargement process. Knowledge about European Union. Topics: Preferred language of the interview; current life satisfaction; life satisfaction compared with five years ago; life satisfaction over the next five years; personal situation; economic situation in the country; financial situation of the household; employment situation in the country; personal job situation; trust in public institutions; trust in other social institutions; news viewership on television; news readership of daily newspapers; news listenership on the radio; trust in the media; national pride; european pride; knowledge of foreign languages; foreign languages that are the most useful to know; contacts with foreign countries, work experience abroad; spontaneous image and meaning of the EU; meaning of being citizen of the European Union; trust in European Parliament, in European Commission; support for EU-membership; membership good thing or bad thing; referendum about membership; perceived benefits of EU-membership; personal benefits; benefits for the country; expected benefits for various social groups; expected and desired role of the EU in five years’ time; benefits of EU in ten years time; support for joint EU decision-making (defence, environmental protection, currency, health, social security, unemployment, research, foreign policy, culture, immigration, justice, crime, drugs and human trafficking); self-perceived knowledge about the EU (scale); awareness of the European Union, its institutions, bodies; interest in EU news; preferred source of information about the European Union; EU topics people would like to know more about (history, institutions, economy, international cooperation, social policy); attitudes and knowledge about enlargement and the accession process; awareness of Country’s bid for EU Membership; date of accession; perceived and desired speed of accession process; projected and desired date of accession; feeling informed about enlargement and the accession process; assessment of pre-accession funds; use of technical devices. Demography: Nationality; marital status; age; age at termination of school training; educational level; size of household; occupational status; employment in the public sector; position in the household; size of community; church attendance; income of the household; party preference; gender.