Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2002.1 (Social Situation in the Countries Applying for European Union Membership)

Attitudes towards European Union membership and life satisfaction.
Family and children. Elderly people. Health. Social services. Standard
of living. Social integration. Employment and mobility.

Topics: Current life satisfaction; life satisfaction compared with
five years ago; life satisfaction over the next 5 years; personal
situation; economic situation in the country; financial situation of
the household; employment situation in the country; personal job
situation; trust in public institutions; trust in other social
institutions; news viewership on television; news readership of daily
newspapers; news listenership on the radio; trust in the media;
national pride; European pride; access to modern information
technology; attachment to nationality and identification with Europe;
contact with other countries and cultures; knowledge of foreign
languages; foreign languages that are the most useful to know; contacts
with foreign countries; tolerance towards other people; people of other
races, nationalities, religions; attitudes towards foreigners;
spontaneous image and meaning of the EU; image of the EU; meaning of
the EU; meaning of being a citizen of the EU; trust in the EU and its
institutions; trust levels in the EU; trust in the institutions and
bodies of the EU; trust in European Parliament and in European
Commission; support for EU membership; referendum about membership;
perceived benefits of EU membership; personal benefits; benefits for
the country; expected benefits for various social groups; expected and
desired role of the EU in five year’s time; benefits of EU in five
years time; support for joint EU decision-making; preferred
decision-making mechanism of the enlarged EU about the EU;
self-perceived knowledge about the EU; awareness of the EU, its
institutions, bodies; interest in EU news; preferred methods for
receiving information about the EU; EU topics people would like to know
more about; attitudes towards enlargement; perception of support levels
for country’s membership in the Member States; awareness of country’s
bid for EU membership; feeling informed about enlargement and the
accession process; speed and date of accession; assessment of
pre-accession funds; ideal number of children; reasons for not having
children; number of children; age when the first child was born;
preferred action of the government to improve family policy;
responsibility for looking after the children (father vs. mother); role
of family in the society; responsibility for taking care about elderly
parents; preferred way of taking care for elderly parents; financial
responsibility; looking after someone who has a long-term illness;
assessment of one’s own lifestyle; distances to social services;
satisfaction with social and health services (scale); responsibility
for social services (government vs. NGOs); lowest monthly income of the
household; adequate household income; financial situation of the
household; financial problems (paying mortgages, bills, food etc.);
assessment of the standard of living; improving the standard of living;
possession of household goods; factors of quality of life (work,
education, a partner, children, friends, leisure time, holidays,
neighbours, going out with friends, sufficient accommodations, being
useful to others, feeling recognized, successful career, political
participation); auxiliary person; social isolation (scale); socially
excluded people; housing environment (scale); subscribe money; reason
for living in need; social reason for poverty; risk of poverty;
attitudes towards social inequality; active membership in social
organisations; unemployment; preferred status of employment; size of
workplace; sector; working hours; working conditions and work load
(scale); frequency of negative working conditions; frequency of moves
over the last ten years; reasons for moving/staying; move in the next
five years; preferred place to move; move and work in a foreign
European country.

Demography: Occupational status; marital status; age; gender; age at
termination of school training; educational level; size of household;
size of community; size of residence; church attendance; income of the
household and sources; occupational status of the head of the
household.