Eurobarometer 43.0 + 43.1 (1995)

Attitudes towards AIDS and drugs. Topics: 1. Drugs: registration of respondent in the election register; classification of drug addiction as problem of maturity, social problem, health problem, moral problem, criminal or economic problem; primary consequences of use of drugs; major reasons for use of drugs; degree of familiarity or personal proximity to selected drugs; classification of these drugs as dangerous to health; age at start of use of drugs; assumed frequency of use of drugs on the street, in schools or universities, at parties, in pubs or discotheques, at concerts, in sport clubs, in leisure centers and on vacation; personal opportunities of access to drugs; potential possibilities of personally obtaining drugs; recommendations on elimination of the drug problem; preferred contact for information about drugs; judgment on danger of medications in comparison with drugs; attitude to permitting urine tests to expose drug users by the police, employers, insurance companies etc.2. Attitude to AIDS: significance of the topic AIDS (scale);possibilities of infection and risk groups; fear of blood transfusion, blood donations, injections or operations due to risk of AIDS; most important possibilities to contain or eliminate AIDS; judgment on national efforts in these areas and approval of common efforts through the European Union in the fight against AIDS; most important preventive measures for effective protection against AIDS; personal change of sexual practices and social habits from AIDS.3. Miscellaneous: self-classification on a left-right continuum; religiousness; possession of a telephone. Also encoded were: date of interview; time of start of interview; length of interview; number of persons present during interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate.