European Communities Study 1973

The survey contains two different main focus areas:
1. Attitudes to the European Community and European unification.
2. General satisfaction of respondent with various areas of life and society.

Topics: 1. Extent to which informed about the European Community and
the Common Market; interest in the problems of the EC and television
broadcasts about the EC; attitude to the election of a European
Parliament and membership of one´s own country in the EC; problems
which can better be solved in a European Government than is the case at
national level; willingness to make sacrifices to support European
unification; political interest; personal opinion leadership and
evaluation of various sources of information on political opinion
making; self-assessment on a left-right continuum;

2. Satisfaction of respondent in the areas housing, income, education
of children, leisure, social services received, relationship between
the generations; satisfaction with the social system and ability of
democracy to function; general contentment with life and work
satisfaction (scale); change of satisfaction in the last few years;
evaluation of the discussions on environmental protection; evaluation
of political goals such as: economic growth, co-determination, defense,
city renovation, price stability, freedom of speech, combating crime,
ideological progress and humanizing society.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; number of children
in household; religious denomination; religiousness; school education;
vocational training; employment; household income; size of household;
head of household; party preference; political discussion; membership.