Eurobarometer 47.1 (1997)

Attitude to the EU. Questions on further education. Attitude tominorities in the country. Racism. Family planning and occupation.Topics: 1. EU questions: nationality (multiple response possible);interest in politics; personal opinion leadership; postmaterialism;extent of obtaining news from radio, television and newspapers;self-classification of extent to which informed about the government ofthe country as well as about the EU; interest in information about theEU; preferred type of information and media; availability of newinformation technologies; attitude to membership of the country in theEU and advantageousness of membership for one´s own country; nationalcitizen or European citizen; countries favored to join the EU; attitudeto Switzerland and image of this country (scale); attitude to the EURO,a common European security and foreign policy and active and passivemunicipal right of EU foreigners to vote; attitude to Europeanresponsibility for matters that cannot be solved at national level;necessity of a majority in the European Parliament for the presidentand the members of the European Commission; attitude to equal rightsfor European Parliament and council of ministers; attitude to increasededucation of schoolchildren by European institutions; attitude to asubsidy for European film and television productions; preferreddivision of tasks between EU and nation-state in selected politicalareas. 2. Further education: attitude to life-long learning and reasonsfor further education even after school; preferred further educationmethod; most important reasons against personal further education;judgement on improvement of further education in personal as well asprofessional life; personal participation in further education measuresin the last 12 months; desire for increased effort of the EU in furthereducation measures; necessity of continual further education; mostimportant sources of information for further education; attitude to theinformation society and new information technologies (scale); currentcontentment with life as well as expected and previous contentment withlife five years ago; satisfaction with democracy; personal unemploymentand unemployment experience in family and circle of friends. 3. Minorities: national pride; feeling of political effectiveness orpowerlessness; perceived conflict between poor and rich; most importantpolitical problems; most important national political goals; attitudeto democracy; importance of human rights (scale); belonging to aminority; origin of parents or grandparents from another culture,religion, race or nationality; acceptance of ethnic, religious andcultural minorities (scale); assessment of the proportion minorities inthe country; personal friends from the area of minorities; mostimportant measures to improve relations with people of another race,religion and culture in one´s country; attitude to assimilation andintegration of minorities (scale); attitude to immigrants from non-EUcountries (scale); attitude to the right to asylum and to havingchildren and family members come later; advantages for the country fromthe presence of immigrants from non-EU countries; preferred measures ofEU institutions against racism; judgement on the success of the´European year against racism 1997´ (scale); perceived disturbancesfrom people of another race, religion or culture; social proximity tominority groups (Bogardus scale); acceptance of personal relations andwillingness to help regarding minorities; contacts in neighborhood andat work with minorities; prejudices regarding minorities (scale);concession of civil rights and liberties, democratic rights and civilrights to such minorities; self-classification of racism (scale).Preferred accomodation opportunities for older persons living alone;individual or government responsibility for seniors; total number ofchildren; ideal age for women at first as well as last child; full-timeor part-time employment; living separately or living together with apartner; employment situation of partner; ideas about an ideal divisionof labor between occupation and raising children for respondent as wellas for partner; preferred governmental measures to improve thesituation of families with children. Self-assessment on a left-rightcontinuum. In the Netherlands the following additional questions wereposed: extent to which informed about the Dutch presidency in thecouncil of ministers and significance of this presidency. The followingadditional question was posed to persons over 55 years old: mostimportant reasons for further education in retirement age. Also encodedwere: date of interview; time of start of interview; length ofinterview; number of persons present during interview; willingness ofrespondent to cooperate; possession of a telephone.