EU-Profiler: User Profiles in the 2009 European Elections - Respondent-level Data for Netherlands

The EU Profiler is a Voting Advice Application (VAA) running during the European Elections of 2009. Respondents are situated in a political spectrum, according to their positioning with regard to 30 statements on:
(a) Welfare, family and health: welfare programmes maintained even if taxes increase, privatization of healthcare services, increase in subsidies for childcare;
(b) Migration and immigration: encourage immigration of skilled workers, restrict immigration;
(c) Society, religion and culture: legalisation of same sex marriages, greater respect for religious values in politics, decriminalisation of soft drugs, legalisation of euthanasia;
(d) Finances and taxes: reduction of government spending, tax-raising powers for EU, bail out failing banks with public money;
(e) Economy and work: reduction of workers´ protection regulation, reduction of EU subsidies to farmers;
(f) Environment, transport and energy: support for renewable sources of energy, promotion of public transport, fighting global warming;
(g) Law and order: restrictions of civil liberties, more severe punishment for criminals;
(h) Foreign policy: EU should speak with one voice, EU should strengthen security and defence policy;
(i) European integration; EU integration is good, the Netherlands are better off in the EU, accession of Turkey, more power to EP, less veto power for individual member states, referendum on treaty in the Netherlands;
(j) Country specific items: regulation of financial oversight of banks at the European level, European ban on smoking in bars and restaurants.
Respondents could rate subjective salience for all issues.

An additional questionnaire asks about:
quality of results from EU-Profiler; help to decide about vote; change of vote decision; increase interest in EP election; increase interest in politics; increase motivation to participate in EP election; refrains from participating in EP election; no change of intention to vote; left indifferent; compass useful; previous use of profiler; media use for political information; political information before EP election; political efficacy; political interest; vote intention EP elections; vote at last election EP; vote intention national parliament; importance for democracy: equal chances to access courts, free and fair elections, referenda, governments do what is right, new technologies for participation; satisfaction with national democracy; satisfaction with european democracy; attitude towards further integration of EU;
trust in: national parliament, European parliament, national Government, European Commission, political parties; national government of experts; european government of experts; approval of national government´s record; participation to elections; self-placement on a left-right continuum.

Demography: gender; place of birth; nationality; country of residence; marital status; highest level of education; occupational status; sector of employment; place of residence; duration of residence; denomination; church attendance; self-assessment of religiousness; number of children; number of people in household; household income.

Also encoded was: language user selected; spectrum position x-axis; spectrum position y-axis; nearest party in country spectrum; furthest party in country spectrum; nearest party in EU spectrum; furthest party in EU spectrum; scores on liberal society, expanded welfare axis, economic liberalisation axis, restrictive financial policy axis, law and order axis, immigration policy axis, environmental protection axis.