Eurobarometer 62.2 (Nov-Dec 2004)

This round of Eurobarometer surveys queried respondents on the
standard Eurobarometer measures as well as agricultural policy,
development aid, social capital, and information and communication
technology.

Topics: To start the interview, standard trend questions were asked
regarding support for membership of the European Union, trust in three
specific institutions (the Parliament, the Commission, and the
Council), support for the European Constitution, and the international
political situation. Next, questions were asked regarding agriculture
policy. Respondents gave their views on the role of the agriculture
policy of the European Union (EU), whether the policy was playing its
role well or badly, and whether the EU should subsidize agricultural
products or grant more funds to the overall rural economy and to direct
support for farmers. The third portion of the interview collected
information on respondents´ views on development aid. Questions were
asked pertaining to the importance of helping people in impoverished
countries, providing aid to those countries, how much of the nation´s
and the European Commission´s budget should be spent on aid to other
countries, whether the respondent had heard about the Millennium
Development Goals, and which three actions would be the most important
for their government to undertake in order to help developing countries
achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Another major focus of the
survey was social capital. A series of questions addressed satisfaction
with life, the importance of different aspects of life, personal
networks, political and social commitment, and discrimination
experience. The last topic of the survey was information and
communication technology at the workplace. Respondents were asked what
technological devices were most prevalent in their daily lives (both
professional and personal), to what extent they made use of computers
and the Internet, whether they had received information and
communication technology training, and whether they were able to
telecommute (telework).

Demography: Respondent´s age, gender, nationality, origin of birth
(personal and parental), marital status, left-to-right political
self-placement, occupation, age when they stopped full-time education,
household composition, and region.