Eurobarometer 39.0 (Mar-Apr 1993)

The main topics of this Eurobarometer are:
1. Attitude to European unification. Detailed determination of knowledge
about political committees, personalities and institutions
in the country of respondent as well as at European level.
2. Attitude to marriage, family and children.
Topics: Eligibility to vote at place of residence;
contentment with life;
satisfaction with democracy;
personal opinion leadership and frequency of political discussions;
postmaterialism;
frequency of obtaining news from television, radio and newspapers;
knowledge about EC membership of one's own country and
knowledge about other EC members;
trust in the population of selected countries;
satisfaction with democracy in the EC;
extent to which informed about the EC and knowledge about EC institutions;
interest in European policies;
attitude to unification of Western Europe;
advantageousness of EC membership of one's own country;
long-term expected balance of advantages and disadvantages of EC membership
for the country;
regret of a possible failure of the EC;
importance of European unification for respondent;
approval of a European Government responsible to a European Parliament;
attitude to the EC Commission and knowledge of this institution;
hopes or fears regarding the European domestic market and
expected effects on one's own situation in life as well as on one's own country;
decision behavior with a referendum about the Maastricht Treaty;
self-assessment of level of information about this treaty;
attitude to selected possibilities of European cooperation in monetary policy,
social policy, foreign policy, combating crime, the right to vote,
the economy and defense (scale);
significance of the EC institution;
attitude to replacement of national currency by the ECU;
preferred countries for expansion of the EC;
attitude to admission of Southern European job-seekers,
Eastern European emigrants and applicants for political asylum into the EC and
attitude to unrestricted choice of place of residence by EC citizens
within Europe;
judgement on the proportion of foreigners in one's country;
perceived disturbance from presence of people of other nationality, race or
religion;
significance of the problem of applicants for asylum for the country;
naming of the EC country with the most immigrants or applicants for political
asylum as well as designation of the country with a particularly antisemitic
and hostile attitude regarding immigrants;
most important sources of information about the EC;
trustworthiness of individual sources of information about the EC;
political knowledge test: stating the total number of EC countries and
knowledge of the capital of one's own country;
knowledge of the seat of the EC Commission as well as
of the president of this commission in Brussels;
knowledge about the federal chancellor or prime minister of one's own country;
knowledge about the individual members of the European Commission;
knowledge about the highest legislative instutitions in one's own country;
identification of the most powerful EC institution;
knowledge about the national head of state and his powers;
knowledge about the composition of the European Council;
knowledge about the names of members of the national government;
party preference in the election to the EC parliament 1994;
knowledge of a national member of the European Parliament;
positive or negative impression of the European Parliament;
assessment of the significance of the European Parliament;
preference for a more significant role of the European Parliament;
assessment of adequate control powers of the European Parliament;
trust in the controllability of the European Community
by the national parliament, European Commission, national government,
European Parliament, public, Council of Ministers, European Court of Justice
as well as organizations;
preference for decisions at national or European level
in selected areas of politics and society;
knowledge about the eligible voters for the European Parliament;
intent to participate in the next national election and
in the next election to the European Parliament;
most important reasons for non-participation in the next election
to the European Parliament;
country with the greatest influence in Europe;
sympathy for the German Federal Chancellor Kohl;
danger to peace in Europe from a united Germany.
Preference for a uniform end of summer time in all of Europe;
preferred point in time for a change of summer time.
Family:
importance of selected aspects of a partnership (scale);
attitude to marriage (scale) and partnerships similar to marriage;
importance of marriage, children and occupation for the man
as well as for the woman;
attitude to divorce and most important reasons for or against a divorce (scale);
attitude to employment of young mothers and
the inclusion of the father in child-raising;
assessment of the most important effects of a divorce on children;
preferred role distribution between parents in raising children;
general desire for children;
educational goals;
determinants for the desired number of children;
priority for spouse or children in a family (scale);
attitude to early leaving the parental home by grown-up children;
increase in difference between the generations;
most important measures of government family policy to improve family life;
preference for equal rights for married and unmarried couples and
perceived government preferential treatment of married or unmarried couples;
judgement on government preferential treatment of large families;
attitude to marriage of homosexual couples and equal status for such couples
regarding adoption and inheritance law;
importance of areas of life;
expected influence of unemployment and reduced income on family life;
self-classification on a left-right continuum;
party inclination;
union membership;
living together with a partner;
number of children altogether as well as with current partner;
members of household over 65 years;
number of children in household and their ages;
equiping of household with durable economic goods, in particular in the area of
entertainment electronics and computers;
possession of second car and possession of a vacation apartment;
time worked each week;
span of control;
employment in the civil service or in the private sector;
self-classification of social class;
residential status;
rural or urban residential area;
religiousness;
self-assessment of current financial situation of family.
Demography:
self-classification on a left-right continuum;
party allegiance;
party preference (Sunday question);
behavior at the polls in the last election;
union membership;
marital status;
living together with a partner;
age at end of education;
resumption of school training after an interruption and
length of school training;
length of further education;
sex;
age;
size of household;
number of children in household;
possession of durable economic goods;
monthly household income;
occupational position;
weekly number of working hours;
employment in the civil service or private enterprise (company sector);
company size;
supervisor status;
person managing household;
position in household;
age of head of household at end of education;
occupation of head of household;
supervisor status of head of household;
self-assessment of social class;
residential status;
degree of urbanization;
religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance;
religiousness;
city size;
region;
possession of a telephone.
The following questions were also posed in Denmark:
knowledge about the Danish presidency in the Council of Ministers of the EC and
assessment of the significance of this presidency.
The following questions were only posed in Norway:
level of information on the negotiations between EC and EFTA
about a common European economic area;
attitude to such an economic cooperation;
significance of the negotiations for EC membership of Norway;
preference for a referendum or a parliament decision
about the question of EC-EFTA cooperation as well as Norway's joining the EC;
personal decision behavior in these questions in case of a referendum;
importance of EC membership for the country;
dependence of personal position on joining the EC on the conduct of
Sweden and Finland;
perceived advantages and disadvantages of Norway's joining the EC
in the areas of environment, employment, foreign relations,
settlement structure, economy, culture, political influence, health and
social security as well as drugs and alcohol;
personal participation in the Norwegian referendum on joining the EC
in 1972 and voting decision at the time;
probability of EC membership of Norway by the year 2000.
Belgium:
knowledge about the advertising campaign of the Belgian government
on the topic of Europe and memory of the advertising medium.
Denmark:
knowledge about the office of the EC Commission in Copenhagen.
Germany:
judgement on the contribution of the EC to solving economic problems in Germany.
Greece:
assumed image of other Europeans regarding Greece.
Spain:
most important sources of information about the EC and
judgement on quality or credibility of the information about the EC;
interest in selected EC topics;
perceived advantages or disadvantages for selected areas of business in Spain
through the EC;
language proficiency and interest in learning further languages.
France:
judgement on the situation of Europe after Maastricht regarding
protection of the French Franc, social security as well as
competition with America and Japan.
Ireland:
attitude to devaluation of the Irish pound.
Italy:
expected effects of joining the European Economic and Currency Union.
Luxembourg:
desire for more detailed information about selected areas of European politics.
Netherlands:
continuation of the European unification process even if
the Maastricht Treaty is not ratified by some EC members.
Portugal:
attitude to restrictive immigration policy for persons from non-EC countries.
United Kingdom:
institutions that should offer more information on the EC.
Also encoded were:
date of interview;
time of interview;
length of interview;
presence of third persons during interview;
willingness of respondent to cooperate.