European Election Study 1989 (EES 1989)

Judgement on parties, attitude to the EC, political attitudes.
Collection of variables from three different Eurobarometers.

Topics: At all three survey times the following questions were posed:
election participation at the last national election and intent to
participate in the next national election; behavior at the polls in the
last election and party preference; general judgement on the European
Parliament and EC Commission; attitude to European unification;
judgement on membership of one´s own country in the EC and assessment
of advantages for the country from EC membership; regret of a failure
of the EC; expectations of the European domestic market; issue
relevance; postmaterialism.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children (under 15
years old); age at which respondent left school; occupation; last
employment; area of business of company; company size; span of control;
household income; size of household; respondent is head of household;
characteristics of head of household; residential status;
self-assessment of social class; city size (subjective, objective);
future expectations (general); expected increase in strikes; expected
increase in international conflicts; judgement on the economic
development of the country and of personal household in the past year;
contentment with life (scale); assessment of the quality of life in
five years; self-classification on a left-right continuum; political
interest and interest in EC policies; frequency of political
discussions; personal opinion leadership; satisfaction with democracy;
party identification; party membership; union membership;
religiousness.

Also encoded was: date of interview; time of interview; length of
interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate; number of persons
during the interview.

The following questions were posed in only one or two surveys: intent
to participate in the European Election 1989; behavior at the polls in
the European Election and if appropriate reasons for non-participation
in the election; most important reasons for voting decision; national
or European reasons for party election; probability for the election of
selected parties in the European Election and at national level;
interest in the European Election campaign; evaluation of selected
sources of information on the European Election; manner of search for
information during election campaign; personal attempts to convince
other persons of one´s preferred party; frequency of use of television
at the time of the election campaign and evaluation of the television
election campaign; knowledge about the authority of the European
Parliament; judgement on the outcome of the Madrid summit meeting of
the European Heads of Government; knowledge about the president of the
European Commission; preference for national or party political
orientation of the representatives of the EC parliament; preference for
national or European decision-making on selected political
controversies; attitude to further integration of Europe beyond the
European domestic market; national pride; feeling as a European;
judgement on European agricultural policy; necessity of EC membership
for economic development of one´s own country; perceived EC position of
selected national parties; expected effects of the European domestic
market; issue ability of the parties; most important national problems
and events; classification of selected parties on a left-right
continuum; media usage; importance of selected fundamental rights and
freedoms; concepts of violence (semantic differential); willingness to
participate in selected forms of political protest and demonstrations;
attitude to use of government force against demonstrators and strikers;
attitude to the idea of democracy; preference for democracy or
dictatorship; attitude to social change; judgement on the extent of
democratic way of working of the EC; agreement with the national
government; preferred government for one´s own country; importance of
local, regional, national and European Parliaments and governments;
expected development of the personal situation next year; expectation
of strikes and security of peace; judgement on economic development in
the last year; contentment with life (scale); judgement on personal
living conditions.