DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38447.v1
title: Eurobarometer 87.2: Designing Europe's Future, and E-Communications and Digital Single Market, April 2017
title: Version 1

description: The Eurobarometer series is a unique cross-national and cross-temporal survey program conducted on behalf of the European Commission. These surveys regularly monitor public opinion in the European Union (EU) member countries and consist of standard modules and special topic modules. The standard modules address attitudes towards European unification, institutions and policies, measurements for general socio-political orientations, as well as respondent and household demographics. The special topic modules address such topics as agriculture, education, natural environment and resources, public health, public safety and crime, and science and technology. Eurobarometer 87.2 covered the following special topics: (1) Designing Europe's Future, and (2) ECommunications and Digital Single Market. Questions regarding the EU future included respondents' opinions regarding the EU budget and policies and trust in institutions. Respondents were also asked about attitudes towards economic policies, globalization, a common foreign and defense policy and future priorities and perspectives. Additionally, respondents were asked about their use of telephones and digital electronics, the importance of specific factors in choosing to subscribe to an Internet connection, experiences with the internet subscription, bundling Internet connection with other services, and switching communication service providers. Further topics included experiences with international calls, consumer protection issues and the knowledge of emergency numbers. Demographic and other background information collected includes left or right self-placement on political scale, age, gender, nationality, marital status, occupation, age when stopped full-time education, household composition, ownership of a fixed or mobile telephone and other goods, difficulties in paying bills, self-assessed social class, internet use, life satisfaction, political discussion frequency, and opinions on whether their voice counts in their country/EU. Country-specific data includes type and size of locality, region of residence, and language of interview (where applicable).
description: For each sample, i.e. participating country or lower level region, a comparison between the sample composition and a proper universe description is carried out for internal weighting purposes. The universe description is made available by the National Survey Research Institutes and/or by EUROSTAT. On this basis, a national weighting procedure, using marginal and intercellular weighting, is applied. As such, in all countries, minimum sex, age, region NUTS II (basic regions as defined by the EUROSTAT nomenclature of territorial units for statistics), and size of locality are introduced in the iteration procedure. This poststratification weighting is also referred to as redressment or non-response weighting. A design weight which would adjust for unequal selection probabilities (depending on the household size) is not made available. Please refer to the deposited documentation, as well as ZACAT, for additional weighting information. For Eurobarometer 87.2, please see "ZA6862_readme.pdf" file for ore specific weights information.
description: A multi-stage, random (probability) sampling design was used for this Eurobarometer. In the first stage, primary sampling units (PSU) were selected from each of the administrative regionals units in every country (Statistical Office of the European Community, EUROSTAT NUTS 2 or equivalent). PSU selection was systematic with probability proportional to population size, from sampling frames stratified by the degree of urbanization. In the next stage, a cluster of starting addresses was selected from each sampled PSU at random. Further addresses were chosen systematically using standard random route procedures as every Nth address from th initial address. In each household, a respondent was drawn, at random, following the closest birthday rule. No more than one interview was conducted in each household.
description: Datasets: DS1: Eurobarometer 87.2: Designing Europe's Future, and E-Communications and Digital Single Market, April 2017
description: 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. Smallest Geographic Unit: Country
description: computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI); face-to-face interviewThe original data collection was carried out by TNS Opinion and Social on request of the European commission between April 15 and April 25, 2017. In some areas, fieldwork dates may vary slightly from this timeframe and users are encouraged to refer to the deposited documentation for more information.The following are important remarks for certain questions and modules in this Eurobarometer: Question module QA 'Designing Europe's future' is largely based on Standard Eurobarometer waves 86.2 (ICPSR 36875), 84.3 (ICPSR 36670), 83.3 (ICPSR 36667), 79.3 (ICPSR 35615), and 77.3 (34676). Question module QB 'E-Communications and Digital Single Market' is partly based on questions asked in the context of the corresponding module surveyed in the framework of Eurobarometer 84.2 (ICPSR 36669). For parts of the e-communications questions, the respondents are asked to answer for their household. Alternative weighting variables are suited for the descriptive analysis of the corresponding variables on household level (w31 to w79 and wex_hh). No data are available for protocol items p8 (postal code), p9 (sample point number), p10 (interviewer number) and p11. For more information regarding technical information on specific variables, including changes from prior, unreleased versions of the data to the current release, please see the deposited documentation.Access to GESIS data and documentation, including the GESIS DOI, for Eurobarometer 87.2 can be found through the GESIS Data Catalogue. Additional information on the Eurobarometer Survey Series and the Eurobarometer data can be found at the GESIS Eurobarometer website and ZACAT, respectively.