Eurobarometer 47.1 (Mar-Apr 1997)

EU questions: nationality (multiple response possible); interest in politics; personal opinion leadership; postmaterialism; extent of obtaining news from radio, television and newspapers; self-classification of extent to which informed about the government of the country as well as about the EU; interest in information about the EU; preferred type of information and media; availability of new information technologies; attitude to membership of the country in the EU and advantageousness of membership for one´s own country; national citizen or European citizen; countries favored to join the EU; attitude to Switzerland and image of this country (scale); attitude to the EURO, a common European security and foreign policy and active and passive municipal right of EU foreigners to vote; attitude to European responsibility for matters that cannot be solved at national level; necessity of a majority in the European Parliament for the president and the members of the European Commission; attitude to equal rights for European Parliament and council of ministers; attitude to increased education of schoolchildren by European institutions; attitude to a subsidy for European film and television productions; preferred division of tasks between EU and nation-state in selected political areas. 2.

Further education: attitude to life-long learning and reasons for further education even after school; preferred further education method; most important reasons against personal further education; judgement on improvement of further education in personal as well as professional life; personal participation in further education measures in the last 12 months; desire for increased effort of the EU in further education measures; necessity of continual further education; most important sources of information for further education; attitude to the information society and new information technologies (scale); current contentment with life as well as expected and previous contentment with life five years ago; satisfaction with democracy; personal unemployment and unemployment experience in family and circle of friends. 3.

Minorities: national pride; feeling of political effectiveness or powerlessness; perceived conflict between poor and rich; most important political problems; most important national political goals; attitude to democracy; importance of human rights (scale); belonging to a minority; origin of parents or grandparents from another culture, religion, race or nationality; acceptance of ethnic, religious and cultural minorities (scale); assessment of the proportion minorities in the country; personal friends from the area of minorities; most important measures to improve relations with people of another race, religion and culture in one´s country; attitude to assimilation and integration of minorities (scale); attitude to immigrants from non-EU countries (scale); attitude to the right to asylum and to having children and family members come later; advantages for the country from the presence of immigrants from non-EU countries; preferred measures of EU institutions against racism; judgement on the success of the ´European year against racism 1997´ (scale); perceived disturbances from people of another race, religion or culture; social proximity to minority groups (Bogardus scale); acceptance of personal relations and willingness to help regarding minorities; contacts in neighborhood and at work with minorities; prejudices regarding minorities (scale); concession of civil rights and liberties, democratic rights and civil rights to such minorities; self-classification of racism (scale).

Preferred accomodation opportunities for older persons living alone; individual or government responsibility for seniors; total number of children; ideal age for women at first as well as last child; full-time or part-time employment; living separately or living together with a partner; employment situation of partner; ideas about an ideal division of labor between occupation and raising children for respondent as well as for partner; preferred governmental measures to improve the situation of families with children.

Self-assessment on a left-right continuum. In the Netherlands the following additional questions were posed: extent to which informed about the Dutch presidency in the council of ministers and significance of this presidency. The following additional question was posed to persons over 55 years old: most important reasons for further education in retirement age.

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; possession of a telephone.