Eurobarometer 47.2 (1997)

European civil rights and attitude to the EU. Health precautions among women. Topics: interest in politics; personal opinion leadership; judgment on the membership of the country in the EU; advantageousness of this membership; knowledge test of the civil rights made possible by the European Union such as freedom of movement beyond country borders in the search for work, in mobility, in elections, in the economic area or in training; knowledge about equalization of emergency telephone numbers in the EU; recently received information about rights and opportunities of an EU citizen and self-classification of extent to which informed; interest in further information and preferred sources of information; perception of the European Parliament in current media; importance of the European Parliament for Europe; more prestige for the European Parliament; trust in the European Commission, the national government, the European Parliament, the national parliament and the council of ministers; representation of citizen interests by the European Parliament; political areas which the European Parliament should devote more attention to; conduct given a hypothetical referendum on remaining or leaving the EU; necessity of progress in the areas of Common Market, agricultural policy, social policy, environmental policy, foreign policy, military policy, European currency, taxes, election of a European Government and European citizenship; classification of selected European political disputes according to their importance; most important concerns in connection with unification of Europe and classification of the probability of occurrence of these concerns. The following questions were also posed to women: thoughts of personal breast cancer; participation in medical check-ups in the last year and intended participation in the coming year; trust in medical check-ups; attitude to cancer check-ups and expected chances of healing or treating cancer (scale); regular participation in medical check-ups as guarantee of reduction in breast cancer; participation in medical check-ups on personal initiative or advice of doctor; most effective method of cancer check-up; interest in information on the topic of cancer; preferred source of information on cancer questions; cancer patients in one´s circle of friends. Demography: nationality; self-classification on a left-right continuum; marital status; age at conclusion of school education; sex; age; composition of household; professional position; head of household; occupation of head of household; religious affiliation; household income; possession of a telephone. Also encoded was: date of interview; time of start of interview; length of interview; number of persons present during interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate; city size.