Eurobarometer 85.3 (2016)

Since the early 1970s the European Commission´s Standard & Special Eurobarometer are regularly monitoring the public opinion in the European Union member countries. Principal investigators are the Directorate-General Communication and on occasion other departments of the European Commission or the European Parliament. Over time, candidate and accession countries were included in the Standard Eurobarometer Series. Selected questions or modules may not have been surveyed in each sample. Please consult the basic questionnaire for more information on country filter instructions or other questionnaire routing filters. In this study the following modules are included: 1. Perception and awareness about state aid, 2. Gender-based violence, 3. EU consumer habits regarding fishery and aquaculture products.<br>Topics: 1. Perception and awareness about state aid: awareness of state aid in the own country in the last twelve months in selected media; self-rated knowledge about state aid in the own country; ease of finding information; level of public authority giving most support to companies: local, regional, national, European; attitude towards the following statements: citizens should have full access to information, sufficient availability of information, information should remain confidential; kind of information that should be published: name of company, amount, granting authority, time, purpose, results, cumulative amount received over several years; attitude towards selected statements about transparency in relation to state aid: efficient way to make policy-makers accountable to citizens, can improve management of public money, relevant for companies as well as for citizens, has significantly improved in the own country over the last years; type of company that should provide open access to all information about state aid received: small and medium-sized companies, large companies, state-owned companies; need for more transparency by industrial sector; preferred option with regard to most effectively ensuring transparency: provision of information to the public automatically or on request.

2. Gender-based violence: assessment of the extent of domestic violence against women and against men in the own country; acceptability of domestic violence; awareness of domestic violence: in circle of friends or family, in immediate area or neighbourhood, at workplace or at school and university; persons or institutions spoken to about the problem: persons involved, police, support service, health professional, friend or family member, other persons or services; reasons for not talking about the problem; awareness of selected support services for women; most likely place for women to become victim of violence; assessment of the extent of sexual harassment against women in the own country; knowledge test on and attitudes towards the legality of selected actions: repeated criticizing of a partner to make them feel inferior, permanent control of a partner, forcing a partner to have sex, sending unwanted sexually explicit messages, making sexually suggestive comments to women in the street, touching a colleague in an inappropriate or unwanted way; attitude towards the following statements on violence against women: women often make up or exaggerate claims of abuse or rape, violence is often provoked by the victim, domestic violence is a private matter, women are more likely to be raped by strangers than by someone they know; attitude towards the justification of sexual intercourse without consent in selected situations.

3. EU consumer habits regarding fishery and aquaculture products: frequency of the following activities: consumption of fishery and aquaculture products at home, consumption of fishery and aquaculture products at restaurants or other food outlets, purchase of fishery and aquaculture products; reasons for not consuming fishery and aquaculture products; place of purchase; frequency of buying each of the following types of products: fresh or live products, frozen products, smoked, salted, dried products or products in brine, tinned products, breaded products and ready meals; frequency of purchasing loose and pre-packed products; preference regarding the following kinds of products: wild or farmed products, products from the sea or freshwater products, products from own region, own country, inside or outside the EU; main reasons for consuming fishery and aquaculture products; most important aspects with regard to buying fishery and aquaculture products; trust in selected types of information accompanying fishery and aquaculture products: information that must be shown by law, information certified by independent bodies, information provided by brand or seller; comprehensibility of information; importance of the following information on labels of fresh, frozen, smoked and dried products: name of product and species, wild or farmed product, area of catch or production, fishing gear, previously frozen, expiration date; importance of the following information on labels of tinned or prepared products: species, origin, wild or farmed, fishing gear, location of processing plant; desire for information on additional aspects: date of catch or production, port of discharge, country in which the shipping company is located, ethical information, social information, environmental information, information on fisherman or farmer; most important sources of information on fishery and aquaculture products; attitude towards selected statements: interest in trying new products and species, consumption of products suggested by family or friends, consumption of products suggested in the media, tasting of new products at home, tasting of new products in restaurants or on special occasions, tasting of new products at promotional events, desire to increase consumption if choice and points of sale were more diversified, desire to increase consumption if price was lower.

Demography: nationality; occupation; professional position; left-right self-placement; marital status; age; age at end of education; sex; type of community; household composition and household size; possession of durable goods (entertainment electronics, internet connection, possession of a car, a flat/a house have finished paying for or still paying for); financial difficulties during the last year; internet use (at home, at work, at school); self-reported belonging to the working class, the middle class or the upper class of society; life satisfaction; frequency of discussions about political matters on national, European, and local level; own voice counts in the own country and in the EU; general direction things are going in the own country and in the EU; image of the EU.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; date of interview; time of the beginning of the interview; duration of the interview; number of persons present during the interview; respondent cooperation; size of locality; region; language of the interview; nation group; weighting factor.