Eurobarometer 43.0 + 43.1 (Mar-May 1995)

Attitudes towards AIDS and drugs.

Topics: 1. Drugs: registration of respondent in the election register;
classification of drug addiction as problem of maturity, social
problem, health problem, moral problem, criminal or economic problem;
primary consequences of use of drugs; major reasons for use of drugs;
degree of familiarity or personal proximity to selected drugs;
classification of these drugs as dangerous to health; age at start of
use of drugs; assumed frequency of use of drugs on the street, in
schools or universities, at parties, in pubs or discotheques, at
concerts, in sport clubs, in leisure centers and on vacation; personal
opportunities of access to drugs; potential possibilities of personally
obtaining drugs; recommendations on elimination of the drug problem;
preferred contact for information about drugs; judgement on danger of
medications in comparison with drugs; attitude to permitting urine
tests to expose drug users by the police, employers, insurance
companies etc.

2. Attitude to AIDS: significance of the topic AIDS (scale);
possibilities of infection and risk groups; fear of blood transfusion,
blood donations, injections or operations due to risk of AIDS; most
important possibilities to contain or eliminate AIDS; judgement on
national efforts in these areas and approval of common efforts through
the European Union in the fight against AIDS; most important preventive
measures for effective protection against AIDS; personal change of
sexual practices and social habits from AIDS.

3. Miscellaneous: self-classification on a left-right continuum;
religiousness; possession of a telephone.

Also encoded were: date of interview; time of start of interview;
length of interview; number of persons present during interview;
willingness of respondent to cooperate.