Gallup Interviews After the Union Referendum 1993

This survey forms part of a major project carried out in connection with the union referenda in 1992 (Maastricht) and in 1993 (Edinburgh). The main part of the data material, which was collected by the Danish Gallup Institute at the request of an election research group consisting of Jørgen Goul Andersen, Jens Hoff, Hans Jørgen Nielsen, Steen Sauerberg and Torben Worre, is based on daily voting barometers (the so-called CATI-measurements), but the project also includes omnibus surveys carried out as interviews in the home or by means of self-administered questionnaires. The project comprises the following surveys at the DDA: # #DDA-1835: Gallup Interviews Before the Union Referendum 1992. #DDA-1836: Gallup Interviews After the Union Referendum 1992. #DDA-1837: Gallup CATIs Before and After the Union Referendum 1992. #DDA-1838: Gallup CATIs Before and After the Union Referendum 1993. #DDA-1839: Gallup Interviews After the Union Referendum 1993. # #This survey contains data collected by the Danish Gallup Institute as part of omnibus no. 07 in 1993. # #The following background variables are included in the data material: #The respondent's sex, age and marital status; size of the household, number of adults (persons aged 13 or more) and children, and age of the children; the respondent's position in the household; the respondent's education, occupational status, public or private employment and income; gross household income; the housewife's occupational status; housing conditions and ownership of the dwelling as well as geographical location and degree of urbanization. # #In addition to this, the following special questions (dealing with topical events) are included: #Which party the respondent voted for at the general election on 12 December, 1990; which party the respondent would vote for at a hypothetical general election on the day after the interview; vote at the EC referendum on 18 May; most important reasons for voting yes and no, respectively; time of decision; at what time of the day the respondent voted; whether the respondent was strongly convinced about the yes/no; vote at the referendum on 2 June, 1992; reasons for changing attitude from 1992 to 1993; general interest in politics and interest in European politics; the most important political issues (pollution/the environment; unemployment; the economy/balance of payments; social and welfare problems; the tax burden; housing problems; the health services; security policy; the Single European Market; refugees); attitude to a number of opinions about the EC co-operation (Denmark should withdraw from the EC; the individual member countries should maintain full independence and have the right of veto in connection with EC decisions; the individual member countries should to an increased degree leave the decisions to the EC and submit to the community; the EC should in time develop into the United States of Europe with a joint European government); interest in politics (foreign politics, domestic politics, local politics); vote at a hypothetical referendum on Danish membership of the EC and at a hypothetical referendum on resigning from the EC; general attitude to the EC; attitude to a number of provisions in the Maastricht Treaty today (economic and monetary union with a joint currency and a central bank; the EC should be responsible for foreign policy towards countries outside the EC and for a joint security and defence policy within the EC; the legislative power of the European Parliament; the EC shall take an active part in securing that the working environment and other working conditions are improved in the member states); whether the referendum is about the same or about something different; attitude to the Danish opt-outs of the Edinburgh Treaty; consequences for Denmark if it had been a no on 18 May (Denmark would have to leave the EC; the other EC countries would have continued and established the union without Denmark; Denmark would stay as a member but lose influence; the union treaty would have been annulled and the EC would continue at the present level); general attitude to the efforts to unite Western Europe; whether Denmark has benefited/not benefited from its EC membership; whether the development towards a united Europe should be speeded up, slowed down or should continue as now; whether the increasing mutual dependence between the EC countries means that Denmark's freedom of action will be limited or that Denmark will get new possibilities of influencing the development; degree of trust in the Danish politicians; attitude to a number of views from the political debate; the respondent's placing on a political left-right scale; degree of attachment to Denmark, to the EC, to the home town, to Europe as a whole; attitude to a number of views on the EC and the EC co-operation; whether the respondent followed the election campaign on TV and on the radio; whether the respondent read about politics in the newspapers during the election campaign; whether the respondent discusses politics with other people; and whether the respondent is a member of a trade union. #In addition, the survey includes a number of questions concerning newspaper reading habits; TV channels in the household; the respondent's interest in a number of things (politics/economy; pollution and environmental questions; consumer questions; tax conditions; health/disease; nourishment (healthy/unhealthy); housing policy); church attendance; attitude to a number of statements about various subjects (society and politics; opinion of oneself; opinions on consumption and shopping; opinions on TV, newspapers, magazines, etc.); and the respondent's employment conditions and education