Eurobarometer 33 (Spring 1990)

The main survey focus of this Eurobarometer is:

1. Political attitudes and satisfaction

2. Attitudes to the EC and European unification

3. Attitude to nuclear energy and questions on radioactivity

Topics: 1. Political attitudes and satisfaction: citizenship and
eligibility to vote at place of residence; contentment with life;
satisfaction with democracy; personal opinion leadership and
frequency of political discussions; postmaterialism index; attitude
to revolutionary social reforms.

2. Attitudes to the EC and European unification: attitude to
unification of Western Europe; attitude to EC membership of the
country; advantages or disadvantages for the country from EC
membership; regret of a failure of the EC; political interest and
interest in EC policies; significance of EC matters for the country;
preferred sources of information about the EC; feeling as European or
national citizen; solidarity with European manners of behavior, moral
concepts and life styles; European or national thinking in sports;
approval of a Europe emblem on the jerseys of national Olympic teams;
attitude to foreign players in soccer teams; interest in selected types
of sport; attitude to summer time; knowledge about the European
domestic market; hopes and fears in connection with the coming domestic
market; preference for national or European decision-making authority
in selected political areas; attitude to a European social charter;
attitude to EC-wide regulations in selected social areas; knowledge and
judgement on the EC Commission; attitude to the EC policy regarding
Central and Eastern Europe; changed consciousness regarding the EC from
the changes in Central and Eastern Europe; preference for European
domestic market or integration of Eastern European and Western European
nations; attitude to unification of the two German nations; assessment
of the significance of German unification for European integration;
areas in which the Germans feel the greatest solidarity with each
other; trust in the population of selected countries; knowledge and
attitude to the European Parliament; significance of the European
Parliament for life in the EC and daily life of individual citizens;
attitude to increasing the significance of the European Parliament;
attitude to forming a European Union and a European Government;
assessment of danger from fascists and communists for the way of life
in the country; attitude to a prohibition of political activities for
fascists and communists.

3. Attitude to nuclear energy and questions on radioactivity:
assessment of the danger from radioactive radiation in selected
situations; attitude to radioactivity and nuclear energy; satisfaction
with information about radioactivity in the country and reasons for
this satisfaction or dissatisfaction; trustworthiness of selected
sources of information on the topic of radioactivity and criteria for
credibility of sources of information in this area.

Demography: self-assessment on the left-right continuum; party
allegiance and party preference; behavior at the polls in the last
national election; party affiliation; union membership; marital status;
age at end of education; sex; age; size of household; number of
children in household; monthly household income; occupational position;
employment in the civil service or private enterprise (company sector);
company size; supervisor status; position in household; occupation of
head of household; self-assessment of social class; residential status;
degree of urbanization; religious denomination; frequency of church
attendance; religiousness; city size; region.

The following questions were also posed in the FRG: unification of the
two German nations under condition of leaving NATO or the EC; degree of
willingness to sacrifice income for the benefit of support for the
former GDR.

Also encoded were: date of interview; time of start of interview;
presence of third persons during interview; willingness of respondent
to cooperate; city size.