Eurobarometer 41.1 (Jun-Jul 1994)

Questions on the European Election and the EU. Women in politics and
economy. Policies on foreigners. Topics: Trust in the citizens of the
individual countries of the EU as well as in the Americans, Japanese
and Russians; political interest and interest in European policies;
attitude to unification of Western Europe; advantageousness of
membership of one´s own country in the EU; current balance of
advantages from the EU and that expected in five years; regret of a
possible failure of the EU; satisfaction with the functioning of
democracy in one´s country as well as in the EU; preference for
increased political decisions at European level. European Election:
registration for the election to the European Parliament; personal
election participation in the European Election; reasons for not
participating in the election; party voted for; significance of quota
of women realized by a party for one´s own voting decision; knowledge
test about the familiarity of selected politicians at European as well
as national level; popularity of prime ministers John Major, Felipe
Gonzales, Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl; knowledge test about the
membership of selected countries in the European Union; judgement on
the speed of unification of the European countries and desired speed of
EU unification; approval of a European Government responsible to a
European Parliament; self-classification as European; trust in the
decisions of the European Union, the European Commission, the national
government, the European Court of Justice, the Council of Ministers,
the national parliament and the European Parliament considering the
national and individual interests of the people; good and bad sides of
the European Parliament; assessment of the power of the national
parliament and the European Parliament on a scale as well as expected
future influence of these parliaments on the affairs of the respondent;
attitude to the idea of further development of the European Union into
the United States of Europe; type of personal contact with advertising
in the election campaign for the European Election; voting for party or
voting for candidate in the European Election as well as in the
national parliament; personal position as well as assumed position of
the national parties regarding a common European currency, an extensive
European employment program and elimination of borders between the
European countries; most important political problems; party most able
to solve the political problems and classification of controversies as
regional, national or European problem; general judgement on the
advantageousness of the Common Market; attitude to a common currency
(ECU). Women in business and politics: gender-specific preferences in
the voting decision for the candidate (not in all countries);
institutions and bodies in which women in decision-making positions
would be particularly reasonable; desire for more female candidates in
the political parties in the European Election. Policies on foreigners:
too many foreigners in one´s country; attitude to an extension of the
rights for foreigners; persons seeking asylum as a problem for one´s
own country; European country with presumably the greatest influx of
immigrants and persons seeking asylum. Demography: self-classification
and classification of national parties on a left-right continuum; party
inclination and party preference (Sunday question and classification of
the probability of voting for every individual party); party sympathy
of father during the youth of respondent; behavior at the polls in the
last national election; personal membership or membership of member of
household in a trade union; age at conclusion of training; possession
of durable economic goods; responsibility of respondent for household
income or for housekeeping; self-classification of social class;
religiousness; possession of a telephone. The following question was
also posed in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Great
Britain: sympathy for as well as membership in an environmental
protection organization, peace movement, organization opposing nuclear
power well as in a women´s movement. The following questions were also
posed in Denmark: attitude to Danish membership in the EU; behavior at
the polls in the referendum on the Maastricht Treaty; major reasons for
the behavior at the polls in the European Election; attitude to leaving
the EU; time of voting decision. Also encoded were: date of interview;
time of start of interview; length of interview; number of persons
present during the interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate;
identification of interviewer.