Eurobarometer 20 (Oct 1983)

The main survey focus areas of this Eurobarometer are:

1. Personal and economic situation of the respondent,

2. His attitude to foreign aid and

3. Attitude to the EC.

Topics: 1. Evaluation of general and personal economic situation;
development of cost of living; expected personal development in the
coming year and expected strikes as well as international conflicts;
probability of a world war; assessment of the degree of
self-determination (scale); fear of loss of job; development of
unemployment in residential surroundings; evaluation of influence of
government policies on the economic situation, employment situation,
prices and the financial situation of personal household; judgement on
the economic policy of the government; most able party to deal with
economic problems; general contentment with life; satisfaction with the
functioning of democracy in the country; personal opinion leadership;
postmaterialism; intent to participate in the election; assessment of
personal as well as national prosperity; most important
social-political problems; assessment of future political problems;
judgement on economic, cultural and historical relations with selected
countries of the world.

2. Interest in the problems of the third world; evaluation of extent
of information about developing countries in the media; objectivity of
media information; attitude to foreign aid and causes for the problems
of the third world (scale); preferred forms of foreign aid; personal
experience in the third world; proportion of persons from developing
countries in one´s country; judgement on government aid for these
people; assumed significance of development of foreign aid countries
for one´s own country; knowledge about foreign aid providers and
assessment of the most effective foreign aid organization; countries
who soonest should be given foreign aid; readiness for personal
involvement in foreign aid; attitude to an increase of foreign aid,
even with decreasing standard of living; knowledge and willingness to
support selected foreign aid organizations.

3. Attitude to the unification of Western Europe; attitude to
membership of the country in the EC; development of agreement between
EC partners; noticing media information about the European Parliament;
memory of the news content; intent to participate in the next European
Election; the significance of the European Election; actual and desired
influence of the European Parliament; ideas about the tasks and
objectives of the European Parliament as well as judgement on the
populism of the European parliamentarians; frequency of political
discussions with friends; self-assessment on a left-right continuum;
attitude to social change; party allegiance; religiousness; feeling of
being happy.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; school
education; age at conclusion of school; employment; company size;
household income; household size; household composition; respondent is
head of household; characteristics of head of household; respondent is
person managing household; voting behavior at the last federal
parliament election; degree of urbanization.