Eurobarometer 85.1OVR (April 2016)

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 (standard & special modules) are included: 1. European Youth in 2016.<br>Topics: 1. European Youth in 2016: personal experience with regard to the free movement of citizens within the EU: already made use of, wish to make use of, feeling compelled to make use of due to the crisis; assessment of the appropriateness of training and school and university education to the current world of work; importance of teaching young Europeans about the EU and its institutions; awareness of the EU initiative ´Youth Guarantee´; feeling of marginalization of young people due to the economic crisis; attitude towards online social networks in relation to democracy: represent progress, represent a risk; preferred ways of participating in EU public life; personal measures taken to protect the environment and combat climate change.

Demography: nationality; age; age at end of education; left-right self-placement; marital status; sex; occupation; professional position; type of community; household composition and household size; possession of durable goods (entertainment electronics, internet connection, possession of a car, a flat/a house have finished paying for or still paying for); 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; own voice counts in the own country and in the EU; general direction things are going in the own country and in the EU; image of the EU; frequency of the following online activities: use of search engines, use of online social networks, use of online marketplaces.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; size of locality; region; language of the interview; nation group; weighting factor.