Eurobarometer 55.1OVR (Apr-May 2001)

The major topic is:
attitudes of European young people and young adults between 15 and 24 years.
Topics:
significance of the European Union;
expectations of the EU;
reasons to remain living with the parents longer;
leisure activities;
social, cultural, religious, political, athletic involvement;
attitude to foreigners;
knowledge of foreign languages and
willingness to learn foreign languages;
stays abroad in the last 2 years stating travel reasons;
perceived difficulties studying or working abroad;
conduct given personal unemployment;
most important demands of an ideal occupation;
sources of money of respondent;
personal monthly income;
use of new technologies (computer, Internet, cell phone, computer games);
knowledge about personal rights as EU citizen;
importance of topics of European Politics (housing situation, training,
job creation and job security, health, consumer protection, nutrition,
fight against crime, free choice of place of residence within the EU,
social equality, culture, foreign policy,
information campaigns for young people,
new information technologies, environmental protection);
sources used and media to gather information on the EU;
approval of ethical questions such as euthanasia, the death penalty,
obligatory herapies for pedophiles,
limitation on the number of children for people with low income,
right to marriage and adoption for homosexuals, obligatory HIV tests,
sex before marriage, cloning, genetically modified food;
necessary measures for integration of ethical, religious or sexual minorities,
the homeless, alcohol and drug addicts and the handicapped;
judgement on the responsibility of selected social institutions for
making it easier for young people to participate actively in society and
preferred measures in this respect.
Demography:
nationality;
self-assessment on a left-right continuum;
marital status;
age at end of education;
sex;
age;
occupation;
position in household;
occupation of head of household;
degree of urbanization;
monthly household income.
Also encoded was:
date of interview and start of interview;
length of interview;
number of persons present during interview;
willingness of respondent to cooperate;
city size;
region;
interviewer number;
possession of a telephone.
In Luxembourg, Belgium and Finland
the following additional question was posed:
language of interview.