Citation  | European Commission, Brussels (2018): Eurobarometer 83.2 (2015). TNS opinion [producer]. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5965 Data file Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13085 |
| Study No. | ZA5965 |
| Title | Eurobarometer 83.2 (2015) |
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| Current Version | 2.0.0, 2018-10-16, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13085 |
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| Date of Collection | 21.03.2015 - 30.03.2015 |
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| Abstract | 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. Attitudes towards security, 2. Civil protection, 3. Humanitarian aid. Topics: 1. Attitudes towards security: attitudes regarding the following statements: EU, own country, own city, immediate neighbourhood is a secure place to live in; most important challenges to the security of EU citizens at present; importance and assumed development over the next three years of each of the following challenges to the EU’s internal security: organized crime, terrorism, cybercrime, management of external borders, natural and man-made disasters; approval of selected statements regarding the sufficiency of police and other law enforcement authorities’ activities in the own country in the fight against: corruption, money laundering, terrorism, cybercrime, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, human trafficking and sexual exploitation; assessment of the following issues becoming a possible threat to the internal security of the EU: social exclusion (including poverty and discrimination), war or political instability outside the EU, extremist ideologies, climate change and pollution; assessment of the extent of the restriction of fundamental rights in the EU in order to fight terrorism and organized crime; impact of selected issues on respondent’s personal sense of security: national economic situation, national employment situation, respect for fundamental rights and freedom as well as absence of discrimination, financial situation of the own household; importance of each of the following players in ensuring citizens’ security in the own country: police and other public authorities, army, judicial system, EU institutions, citizens’ associations, citizens; assessment of the impact of new technologies on: security of citizens in the EU, rights and freedoms of citizens in the EU, public security ensuring actions of public authorities, economic activities of companies in the EU. 2. Civil protection: approval of the following statements: coordinated EU action in dealing with disasters is more effective than actions by individual countries, own country has sufficient means to deal with major disasters on its own, EU needs civil protection policy as major disasters may have cross-border effects, other EU countries are expected to provide help in case of a disaster in the own country, EU should help countries worldwide in case of disasters; preferred information sources on EU civil protection policy; awareness of the risk of disaster in the own region; sufficient information about disaster risks when traveling to other EU countries; sufficiency of measures to prevent or prepare for disasters in: own region, own country, EU; possibility of effects of disaster in the own region on the local economic situation. 3. Humanitarian aid: awareness and importance of the EU funding humanitarian aid activities; humanitarian aid provided by each member state separately is more efficient than provided by the EU as a whole; preferred information sources on EU humanitarian aid policy; crisis which raised personal awareness of EU humanitarian intervention most: Ebola crisis in West Africa, Syria and Iraq crisis, Ukraine crisis, South Sudan crisis, Central African republic crisis; approval of the EU continuing to fund humanitarian aid globally even during its own economic crisis; approval of the EU initiative to sending volunteers to carry out humanitarian aid actions all over the world. Demography: left-right self-placement; marital status; family situation; age at end of education; sex; age; occupation; professional position; type of community; household composition and household size; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; financial difficulties during the last year; internet use (at home, at work, at school); self-reported belonging to the working class, the middle class or the upper class of society; life satisfaction; opinion leadership; frequency of discussions about political matters on national, European and local level; own voice counts in the own country and in the EU; EU image; general direction things are going in the own country and in the EU. Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; nationality; size of locality; region; nation group; weighting factor; language of the interview. |
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| Universe | Population of the respective nationalities of the European Union Member States and other EU nationals, resident in each of the 28 Member States and aged 15 years and over. |
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Probability Sample: Multistage Stratified Random Sample
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Face-to-face interview
Face-to-face interview: CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview)
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| Data Collector | TNS Dimarso, Brussels, Belgium; TNS BBSS, Sofia, Bulgaria; TNS Aisa, Prague, Czech Republic; TNS GALLUP DK, Copenhagen, Denmark; TNS Infratest, Munich, Germany; TNS Emor, Tallinn, Estonia; Behaviour & Attitudes, Dublin, Ireland; TNS ICAP, Athens, Greece; TNS Spain, Madrid, Spain; TNS Sofres, Montrouge, France; TNS Italia, Milan, Italy; CYMAR Market Research, Nicosia, Cyprus; TNS Latvia, Riga, Latvia; TNS LT, Vilnius, Lithuania; TNS ILReS, Luxembourg, Luxembourg; TNS Hoffmann Kft, Budapest, Hungary; MISCO, Valletta, Malta; TNS NIPO, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ipr Umfrageforschung, Vienna, Austria; TNS Polska, Warsaw, Poland; TNS Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal; TNS CSOP, Bucharest, Romania; RM PLUS, Maribor, Slovenia; TNS Slovakia, Bratislava, Slovakia; TNS GALLUP Oy, Espoo, Finland; TNS Sifo, Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden; TNS UK, London, United Kingdom; HENDAL, Zagreb, Croatia; TNS opinion, Brussels (international co-ordination) |
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EB - Standard and Special Eurobarometer