Eurobarometer 96.2 (2021)

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. Parlemeter 2021, 2. Integration of immigrants in the European Union.<br>Topics: 1. Parlemeter 2021: recent reception of media reports on the European Parliament; image of the European Parliament; desired importance of the role of the European Parliament; preferred issues to be a main priority of the European Parliament; prioritized values to be defended by the European Parliament; attitude towards the European Union; assessment of the own country’s membership in the EU as a good thing; benefits from the EU membership and reasons for benefit; image of the EU; development of this image over the last year; self-rated knowledge about the work of the European Parliament; additional information desired on the following aspects: activities regarding the protection of democracy and the rule of law, possibilities of citizens’ participation in decisions taken at European level, main priorities of the European Parliament, rights of a citizen of the EU, practical activities of MEPs of the own country in the European Parliament, practical consequences of European policies and decisions on the own country, practical consequences of European policies and decisions on personal life, EU activities in the own region and country, EU activities to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, how EU funds are practically spent in the own country, other, no additional information desired; preferred actions to learn more about the activities of national MEPs: personal meetings at events in the own region, interact on social media, more media presence of the MEPs, more information about their roles and activities in the European Parliament, address a MEP directly on a specific issue and receive a concrete answer, visit the European Parliament and meet the MEPs, no desire to get engaged with the activities of the national MEPs, other; most urgent measures to be taken by the EU to tackle climate change and its consequences; likelihood to vote in the next European Parliament elections; personal feeling of involvement in society matters; level of interest in European affairs; personal importance of the own country being a member state of the European Union.

2. Integration of immigrants in the European Union: estimated share of legal immigrants compared to the share of illegal immigrants in the own country; assessment of legal immigration from outside the EU as opportunity or as a problem for own country; proportion of immigrants in the total national population (in percent); self-rated knowledge about immigration and integration matters; most important source of information on immigration and integration related matters; frequency of interaction with immigrants; comfort with immigrants as: own manager, own work colleague, own neighbour, own doctor, own family member, own friend; friends and / or family members who are immigrants living in respondent’s country; success of integration of immigrants living in: own city, own country; development of the following aspects regarding the situation of legal immigrants over the last ten years: likelihood of male immigrants to have a job, likelihood of female immigrants to have a job, education levels of adult immigrants with long-term residence, education outcomes of children of immigrants, poverty rate among immigrants; importance of each of the following aspects with regard to successful integration into the country of residence: share cultural traditions, feel like a member of society, speak national language, accept values and norms of society, participate in an association or organisation or take part in local elections, contributing to welfare system, have friends, sufficient educational qualifications, acquire national citizenship; assessment of the following obstacles to successful integration: discrimination, limited efforts of immigrants to integrate, access to long term residence permits, finding a job, limited access to education as well as to healthcare and social protection, limited interaction between immigrants and national citizens, negative portrayal in the media, bringing family members, finding adequate accommodation, high concentration of immigrants in certain areas; importance of each of the following actors for successful integration: immigrants, citizens, national government, EU institutions, local and regional authorities, media, educational institutions, civil society actors, employers; responsibility of immigrants and / or of society; attitude towards the following statements on integration: necessary investment for own country, sufficient measures of national government; importance of the issue of integration of immigrants from outside the EU for national government; preferred importance of the issue of integration of immigrants from outside the EU on the national government policy agenda; importance of taking into account the integration needs of immigrants with regard to measures to fight the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the own country; country of birth of: respondent, mother of respondent, father of respondent, grandmother on mother´s side, grandfather on mother´s side, grandmother on father´s side, grandfather on father´s side.

Demography: nationality; age; optimism about the future of the EU; marital status; age at end of education; highest completed level of full time education; sex; occupation; professional position; employment status; type of community; household composition and household size; 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; left-right self-placement; general direction things are going in: own country, EU, USA; satisfaction with democracy in the own country and in the EU; own voice counts in the own country and in the EU; own country’s voice counts in the EU; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; financial difficulties during the last year; expected development in the next year: personal living conditions, national economy; internet use (at home, at work, at school).

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; questionnaire split; 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.