Flash Eurobarometer 354 (Entrepreneurship in the EU and Beyond)

Attitudes towards entrepreneurship.<br>Topics: preferred employment status: employed, self-employed; reasons for preferred employment status; preference to work for selected kinds of companies: family business, not family owned business; reasons for preference to work in family business; reasons for preference to work in not family owned business; feasibility to become self-employed within the next five years; reasons for non-feasibility; desire to become self-employed within the next five years; participation in courses about entrepreneurship; attitude towards the following statements on personal school education with regard to entrepreneurship: helpful to develop entrepreneurial attitude, helpful to understand role of entrepreneurs in society, made interested in becoming entrepreneur, has given essential skills; attitude towards selected statements on entrepreneurs: create benefit for society, only think of themselves, are job creators, take advantage of other people’s work; activities in starting a business; considerations with regard to starting a business; current situation in own business; importance of each of the following issues in the decision to start a business: dissatisfaction with previous job situation, appropriate business idea, contact with appropriate business partner, getting necessary financial resources, role model, addressing special needs; reasons for starting own business; preference to set up new business or to take over existing one; most important risks for setting up a business; attitude towards selected groups of people: entrepreneurs, top managers, professions; use of an assumed heritage; importance of each of the following issues with regard to starting a business: lack of financial support, complex administrative procedures, find information on how to start a business, risk of failure, possibility to have a second chance; main sources of income; type of own business: started from scratch, take over from other owner, family business.

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

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