Eurobarometer 17 (Mar-Apr 1982)

The Eurobarometer has the following main focus content areas:

1. satisfaction of the Europeans,

2. future concerns,

3. attitudes to Europe and the community,

4. attitudes to the USA and other countries,

5. judgement on the energy situation,

6. political attitudes and

7. miscellaneous.

Topics: 1: general contentment with life and satisfaction with the
functioning of democracy in the country.

2: concerns for the future; expected development of the situation in
the job market.

3: attitude to unification of Western Europe; interest in the problems
of the European Community; assumed significance of problems of the EC
for the future of the country and its citizens; self-classification of
extent to which informed about the problems of the EC and sources of
information used; judgement on the harmony of the EC countries among
themselves; attitude to membership of the country in the EC; preference
for more national responsibilities or for a European Government;
European citizenship; self-assessment of national pride.

4: attitude to US Americans as well as Russians, Japanese and Chinese;
trust in the USA coping with world problems; attitude to foreign policy
and security policy oriented on the USA; judgement on securing of peace
through Soviet and American policies; self-assessment of pro- or
anti-American stand.

5: classification of the seriousness of current energy problems;
expected development of energy problems in the future; preferred
concepts for provision of energy; measures to save energy personally
undertaken; areas for further energy savings; attitude to atomic energy
(scale) as well as the necessity of atomic energy for provision of
electricity; assessment of the probability of a nuclear power plant
explosion; most important dangers of a nuclear power plant; assumed
reasons (human or technical failure) for nuclear power plant accidents;
judgement on the quality of information in the individual media;
distance to the closest nuclear power plant; planned power plant in the
vicinity; judgement on the risk of selected technical facilities.

6: most important national goals as well as most important spiritual
goals (scales); expected social and political changes for the future;
attitude to the welfare state (scale); party sympathy; party preference
(Sunday question); self-assessment on a left-right continuum; political
interest; assessment of possibilities to exert political influence;
attitude to the political system, nature protection associations, the
ecology movement, the anti-atom movement as well as the peace movement;
self-assessment of political opinion leadership; preferred distribution
of ability and assignment of selected political problems to the
municipalities, the Federal Government or the European Community.

7: company size, religiousness; preferred size of place of residence.
Interviewer rating: distance to closest nuclear power plant.

The following supplemental questions were posed to young people
between the ages of 14 to 25 years: appropriate pay; work satisfaction
and perceived prospects of promotion; desired education received;
expected training qualification; living with parents or with a partner;
financial situation; satisfaction with the areas of life; personal area
of interest.

The following questions were posed to unemployed young people: length
of search for work, type of financial support, major reason for
unemployment.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; occupational position; company
size; household income; household size; household composition;
respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household;
party preference (Sunday question); degree of urbanization; state.