Eurobarometer 87.2 (2017)

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. Designing Europe´s future, 2. E-communications and the Digital Single Market.<br>Topics: 1. Designing Europe´s future: attitude towards an increase in the EU budget given its political objectives; assumed fields on which most of the EU budget is spent; preferred fields on which to spend most of the EU budget; trust in selected institutions: national government, European Union, media, national legal system; positive associations with the following terms: free trade, globalisation, security, solidarity; attitude towards the following issues: European economic and monetary union with one single currency, common foreign policy of all member states, common defence and security policy; assessment of the current speed in the construction of Europe and desired speed; approval of the creation of a European army; attitude towards each of the following scenarios for the future of the EU: continuous implementation of reforms at the same pace as today, gradually focus on deepening certain aspects of the single market, deepen the cooperation of selected member states in certain fields, focus on delivering more and faster in selected policy areas, more cooperation across all policy areas; approval of the following statements: globalisation as an opportunity for economic growth, globalisation increases social inequalities, EU has sufficient power and tools to defend its economic interests globally, European Union protects citizens from negative effects of globalisation, EU enables its citizens to better benefit from positive effects of globalisation; globalisation as an opportunity for national companies or as a threat to employment and companies in the country.

2. E-communications and the Digital Single Market: number of mobile phones in the household with access to the telephone network and number of mobile phone contracts giving access to internet; TV reception via: aerial, Digital Terrestrial Television (i.e. aerial plus decoder), cable TV network (i.e. analogue), cable TV network plus decoder (i.e. digital), satellite TV via satellite dish plus decoder, telephone network plus modem and / or decoder, internet access; frequency of the following activities: make or receive phone calls over a landline phone, make or receive phone calls over a mobile phone, send or receive SMS, use instant messaging services on the internet, make phone or video calls via internet applications, send e-mails, post content on online social media; attitude towards the following statements on traditional means of communication that use a telephone number (compared to using the internet): are more reliable, provide more protection of consumer rights; subscription to a bundle consisting of: fixed line telephone, mobile phone, fixed internet access, mobile internet access, TV channels, music streaming services, video streaming services, other; change of service provider; experienced problems with regard to changing bundle service provider: temporary loss of services, loss of personal e-mails and online content, took some days for new services to work properly, need to change equipment, obligation to pay penalty to former service provider, need to pay for new and old bundle at same time; main considered factors when subscribing to an internet connection; experienced problems with regard to household internet subscription: interruption of connection, downloading or uploading delays, difficulty in using several applications at the same time on different devices, lack of internet responsiveness; frequency of using tools to monitor and control consumption of voice calls, SMS, and data; usefulness of summarized essential contract features; frequency of the following activities: make international phone calls over a landline phone within the EU, make international phone calls over a mobile phone within the EU, make international calls via internet applications (VoIP) within the EU, make international calls to a phone number using internet applications (VoIP) within the EU, send international SMS within the EU, use instant messaging services to reach people within the EU; reasons for using internet applications for phone calls or instant messaging services to reach people within the EU; awareness and use of special tariffs for landline and mobile phone calls within the EU; inclusion of (un)limited number of minutes of international calls within the EU for: fixed telephone subscription, mobile phone subscription; used telephone number in an event of emergency in the own country; knowledge of the European Union-wide emergency number 112.

Demography: nationality; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; possession of durable goods (entertainment electronics, internet connection, possession of a car, a flat/a house have finished paying for or still paying for); left-right self-placement; marital status; sex; age; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; type of community; household composition and household size; 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; opinion leadership; EU image.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; date of interview; time of the beginning of the interview; duration of the interview; number of persons present during the interview; respondent cooperation; size of locality; region; language of the interview; nation group; weighting factor.