Eurobarometer 97.1 (2022)

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. Europeans, agriculture and the CAP, 2. EU Citizens and Development Cooperation, 3. Antimicrobial Resistance.<br>Topics: 1. Europeans, agriculture and the CAP: future importance of agriculture and rural areas in the EU; awareness of the support given to farmers by the EU through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); Common Agricultural Policy benefits all EU citizens and not only farmers; preferred main objectives of EU agriculture and rural development policy; assessment of selected EU activities in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as appropriate: ensuring a fair standard of living for farmers, economic growth in rural areas, ensuring reasonable food prices, guaranteeing food supply in the EU, ensuring sustainable food production, environmental protection and tackling climate change, ensuring quality of agricultural products; main responsibilities of farmers in society; importance of each of the following CAP priorities: developing research and digital solutions in the agri-food sector, strengthening the role of farmers in the food chain, encouraging young people to enter in agricultural sector, boosting investment and growth in the agriculture or food sector, help tackle climate change, guaranteeing food supply in the EU, ensuring reasonable food prices, ensuring sustainable management of natural resources, reducing disparities in the development of different regions and territories of the EU; attitude towards the contribution of the CAP to the aforementioned issues; assessment of the amount of financial support from combined national public expenditure and from the EU budget to farmers as appropriate; assumed reasons for spending 30 % of EU budget on Common Agricultural Policy; desired development of financial support to farmers over the next ten years; importance of selected factors in purchasing decisions of food: provenance, respect of local tradition and know-how, quality ensuring label, short supply chain; awareness of selected logos; attitude towards the following aspects of food products from organic agriculture: better quality, more expensive, better taste, produced under better environmental practices, comply with specific rules on pesticides and antibiotics, respect higher animal welfare standards, difficult to find in shops; attitude towards EU subsidies for farmers that carry out agricultural practices beneficial to climate and environment; attitude towards the following statements on trade barriers to imports of agricultural products: refusal of trade barriers, trade barriers with exception of imports from developing countries, imports only under the precondition of compliance to EU standards; assessment of trade agreements between the European Union and other countries as positive for: EU agriculture, consumers of food products; assessment of each of the following issues with regard to rural areas in the own country: job opportunities, education facilities, health services, access to high-speed internet connections, access to leisure and cultural activities, environment and landscape, transport infrastructure; attitude towards the following statements on agriculture and climate change: agriculture is one of the major causes of climate change, EU farmers need to change the way they work in order to fight climate change even if that means that EU agriculture will be less competitive, agriculture has already made a major contribution in fighting climate change, respondent is willing to pay 10 % more for agricultural products that are produced in a way that limits their carbon footprint, extreme weather events can have an impact on food supply and food security in the EU; development of the level of food safety compared to ten years ago; most important risks to food security in the EU; respondent has children who benefit from the distribution of fruits, vegetables, or milk products at their school through the EU school scheme; preferred products to be distributed by the EU school scheme; most important factors for the choice of products under the EU school scheme: diversity of taste, seasonal products, organic products, low environmental and climate impact, local and short supply chain, minimal packaging with little or no plastic, high animal welfare standards, other; preferred educational measures in the EU school scheme: agriculture and food production, healthy and balanced diets, environmental impact of food, food labelling, food preparation, local and short supply chain products, seasonal products, organic, low environment and climate-impact farming, sustainable trade, animal welfare, food waste, other; specific dietary needs: respondent, children of respondent.

2. EU Citizens and Development Cooperation: importance to partner with countries outside the EU to reduce poverty around the world; attitude towards the following statements regarding tackling poverty in developing countries: should be a main priority of the EU, should be a main priority of the national government; most important challenges for the future of developing countries; importance for the EU to tackle climate change and its effects in developing countries; importance for the EU to support developing countries in going digital; importance for the EU to promote education for all in developing countries; importance for the EU to donate COVID-19 vaccines doses to developing countries; assessment of the success of the EU driving positive and sustainable change around the world with regard to: climate change, tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.

3. Antimicrobial Resistance: use of oral antibiotics in the last twelve months; source of last course of antibiotics used: medical prescription, medical practitioner, some left from a previous course, without prescription from a pharmacy, without prescription from elsewhere; reasons for taking last course of antibiotics: pneumonia, bronchitis, rhinopharyngitis, flu, cold, sore throat, cough, fever, headache, diarrhea, urinary tract infection, skin or wound infection, COVID-19; diagnostic test before prescription; knowledge test on antibiotics: kill viruses, effective against cold or flu, unnecessary use makes them become ineffective, frequency of side-effects; knowledge of the time when to stop a course of treatment; information about not taking antibiotics unnecessarily in the last twelve months; source of the information; change of own point of view due to information; planned future use of antibiotics due to information; additional information desired on the following aspects of antibiotics: resistance, use, medical conditions for the use, prescription, links between the health of humans, animals, and the environment; preferred sources for trustworthy information on antibiotics; preferred level of action to tackle the resistance to antibiotics: individual or family, regional, national, European, global, all levels together; approval of farm animals being treated with antibiotics in case of this being the most appropriate treatment; awareness of the interdiction to use antibiotics in farm animals to stimulate growth within the EU; use of antibiotics in the context of COVID-19; impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on personal need to take antibiotics.

Demography: nationality; age; left-right self-placement; marital status; age at end of education; highest completed level of full time education; sex; occupation; professional position; type of community; household composition and household size; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; 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; frequency of discussions about political matters on national, European, and local level; general direction things are going in the own country, in the EU, and in the USA; EU image; satisfaction with the democracy in the own country and in the EU; approval of the following statements: respondent understands how the EU works, better development of the own country outside the EU, more decisions to be taken at EU level; own voice counts in the own country and in the EU; optimism about the future of the EU.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; mode of interview; 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; language of the interview; region; weighting factor.