Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.1 (New Europeans and Culture)

Attitudes towards European Union membership, European Union policy andcommon foreign and security policy. Cultural activities. Topics: Image of the EU; awareness of the EU (scale); awareness ofcountry’s bid for EU membership; support for EU membership; membership;participation and voting in a referendum about membership; referendumabout membership (scale); support for joint EU decision-making(defence, environmental protection, currency, humanitarian aid, healthand social security, poverty, social exclusion, unemployment,agricultural policy, support for economically deprived regions,education, research, information on EU, foreign policy of EU, culture,immigration, justice, asylum, crime, police, refugees, juveniledelinquency, drugs and human trafficking, terrorism, excess of age);attitude towards the Euro, common foreign policy, common security anddefence policy of EU, EU enlargement, election of the members of theEuropean Commission, teaching school children about the EU); preferreddecision making in a European defence policy (NATO, EU, nationalgovernments); role of USA and EU (peace in the world, fight againstterrorism, economic growths in the world; fight against poverty,environmental protection); decision-making on cultural policy;possession of various objects and equipment of cultural relevance;media usage (radio, TV) ; most preferred types of programmes; watchingvideos, DVDs; frequency of listening to the radio; preferred radioprogrammes; computer usage and ownership; frequency of using acomputer; nature of computer usage; using computers at home for work orstudy, leisure; Internet usage and home penetration; frequency of usingthe Internet; reasons for Internet usage; reading books; possession ofbooks; frequency of reading daily papers; magazines; frequency oflistening to music; media through which people listen to music;availability of devices used for playing back music; music that peoplelike; frequency of cultural activities; artistic activities. Demography: Nationality; marital status; age; age at termination ofschool training; educational level; size of household; occupationalstatus; employment in the public sector; position in the household;size of community; number of people up to 15 and 24 and more years ofage; church attendance; income of the household; party preference;gender.