Flash Eurobarometer 476 (Citizens´ Perceptions of Competition Policy, January 2019)

Attitude towards EU competition policy.<br>Topics: attitude towards selected statements regarding competition between companies: allows for better consumer prices, allows for more choice for consumers, allows for higher quality, encourages innovation and economic growth, transparency on public money granted to companies promotes good use of taxpayers’ money, helps EU companies to become more competitive in global markets; attitude towards the statement: state aid recovery helps restore equal and fair conditions of competition in the Single Market; experiences regarding a lack of competition in the following sectors resulting in higher prices, a reduction in choice, or lower quality: telecommunication and internet access, energy, financial services, transport services, food retailing, pharmaceutical products, others, none; main problems in the mentioned sectors; preferred point of contact in case of encountering the aforementioned problems: national competition authority, other authorities in the own country, consumer organisations in the own country, police, court, European Commission; awareness of issues with regard to competition cases in the media in the last year; sources of the information; awareness of competition-related decisions against a company taken by a competition authority; awareness of the executing authority; assessment of the impact of competition on consumers.

Demography: age; sex; nationality; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; region; type of community; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; household composition and household size.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; type of phone line; nation group; weighting factor.