Eurobarometer 35.0 (Mar 1991)

1. European integration;

2. Energy questions, environmental protection and radioactivity.

Topics: 1. European integration: general life satisfaction;
satisfaction with democracy; opinion leadership; frequency of political
discussions; postmaterialism; trust in the Americans and Russians;
ability of the Soviet Union and the United States to solve problems in
world politics; necessity of NATO; attitude to stationing US American
troops in one´s country; attitude to use of military in the Gulf War;
attitude to a European citizenship and feeling as European;
significance of the EC for one´s own country and influence on personal
life; attitude to unification of Western Europe and membership of the
country in the EC; advantageousness of the membership of one´s own
country in the EC; regret of a failure of the European Community;
attitude to a speeded up integration, a common foreign policy and
preference for a ´rapid intervention force´ to cope with crises in
world politics; expected development of European integration until the
year 2000; hopes or fears for the EC as well as for Germany from united
Germany; attitude to EC financial aid for the Soviet Union; attitude to
admission of refugees from the southern Mediterranean area, from
Eastern European countries and to admission of persons seeking asylum;
judgement on the proportion of foreigners from non-EC countries in
one´s country and a restriction of rights of these persons; general
impression of the EC Commission and the European Parliament; judgement
on the success of the common EC agricultural policy and a planned
agrcultural reform; preference for national or European decision-making
authority in selected political areas; attitude to a European
Government; significance of the European Parliament and preference for
an increase in authorities; areas in which an expansion of the powers
of the European Parliament is supported; attitude to a European Central
bank, a common currency, a common foreign policy and defense policy;
attitude to the European domestic market 1992; attitude to harmonizing
the rights and duties of employers and employees in the member
countries through the domestic market.

2. Energy questions, environmental protection and radioactivity:
expected effect in the energy sector, on technical norms and
environmental protection as well as classification of personal
importance of these changes; importance of the fight against
unemployment and poverty as well as the securing of the energy supply,
environmental protection and supportof under-developed regions in the
country; classification of the significance of the greenhouse effect,
acid rain and destruction of the ozone layer; knowledge about the most
important causes; assessment of price stability, the security of supply
and environmental pollution of the individual energy sources; attitude
to atomic energy; frequency of obtaining news from television, daily
newspaper and radio; most important sources of information about risks
of radioactivity; satisfaction with extent to which informed about
radioactivity and most important reasons for satisfaction or
dissatisfaction with such information; trust in scientists, teachers,
authorities and environment groups regarding information about
radioactivity; most important characteristics of trustworthy sources of
information about radioactivity; assessment of the dangers from nuclear
power plants and storage of radioactive wastes (scale); situations in
which one is exposed to increased radioactive radiation.

Demography: self-classification on a left-right continuum; party
allegiance and party preference (Sunday question); behavior at the
polls in the last election; party affiliation and union membership;
marital status; age at end of education; sex; age; size of household;
number of children in household; monthly household income; occupational
position; employment in the civil service or private enterprise
(company sector); company size; supervisor status; position in
household; occupation of head of household; self-assessment of social
class; residential status; degree of urbanization; religious
denomination; frequency of church attendance; religiousness; city size;
region.

Also encoded was: date of interview; start of interview; length of
interview; presence of third persons during interview; willingness of
respondent to cooperate.

Indices: opinion leadership (cognitive mobility); postmaterialism;
attitude to Europe; status in profession; party preference at state
level and on European level; EC support; support for the EC domestic
market; media usage.

The following questions were posed in Luxembourg: knowledge about the
EC presidency of one´s own country and significance of this presidency
for the country.