DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03476
title: Eurobarometer 56.2: Radioactive Waste, Demographic Issues, the Euro, and European Union Enlargement, October-November 2001
title: Archival Version

description: This round of Eurobarometer surveys queried respondents on
 standard Eurobarometer measures, such as how satisfied they were with
 their present life, whether they attempted to persuade others close to
 them to share their views on subjects they held strong opinions about,
 whether they discussed political matters, and how they viewed the need
 for societal change. Additional questions focused on the respondents'
 knowledge of and opinions about the European Union (EU), including how
 well-informed they felt about the EU, what sources of information
 about the EU they used, and whether their country had benefited from
 being an EU member. In relation to politics, respondents were asked
 whether the process of decision-making about select issues should be
 done by their country alone, the EU or jointly, and whether the EU
 should develop a constitution and common foreign, defense and security
 policies. A major focus of the survey included the euro, EU
 enlargement, radioactive waste, family planning, and Internet usage. A
 battery of questions was posed to respondents regarding how
 well-informed they were about the euro, whether replacing national
 currencies with the euro was a good idea, how comfortable they felt
 using the euro, and the future effects of the introduction of the
 euro. Another set of questions sought respondents' opinions on EU
 enlargement including which countries they favored become EU members
 and associated criteria for membership, the future effects of
 enlargement, how well-informed they were about EU enlargement and what
 sources they sought to obtain information regarding this subject. For
 the next topic, respondents were asked about how well- informed they
 were about radioactive waste, what institutions they would trust in
 their country or in other EU countries to provide information about
 this subject, production of radioactive waste, waste disposal and the
 costs for the construction of an underground disposal site, and their
 knowledge and concerns regarding radioactive waste management in their
 home countries, the EU, and in countries wishing to join the EU.
 Family planning was also addressed by the surveys, as respondents were
 queried about their ideal family size, the number of children they
 had, how old they were when they had their first child, and how many
 children they wanted to have. In addition, the survey asked
 respondents whether they used the Internet, and if so, how often and
 from what location. Other demographic and background information
 provided includes age, gender, nationality, marital status, left-right
 political self-placement, occupation, age when stopped full-time
 education, household composition, household income, type and size of
locality, and region of residence.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Eurobarometer 56.2: Radioactive Waste, Demographic Issues, the Euro, and European Union Enlargement, October-November 2001
description: Citizens of the EU aged 15 and over residing in the 15 EU
 member countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
 Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain,
Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
description: (1) Although the setup files contain references to
 Norway, Norway was not a participant in this wave of Eurobarometer
 surveys and this collection contains no data for Norway. (2) The
 documentation (codebook and SAS, SPSS and Stata setup files) for this
 collection contains characters with diacritical marks used in many
 European languages. (3) Q65/V382-V383 (FAMILY PLANNING - AGE WHEN 1ST
 CHILD): One case coded '6' (6 years) was recoded "0" (NA) in V382 and
 V383. (4) D8/V389-V390: For 2 respondents the indicated AGE "WHEN
 STOPPED FULL-TIME EDUCATION" was too high for the ACTUAL AGE
 (D11/V362). The cases were recoded to NA (code 0) in V389 and
 V390. There are 65 MISSING CASES that are coded '2' (STUDENT) in
 D15A/V393, which have been recoded to '98' in V389, and to '10' in
 V390 (STILL STUDYING). (5) P6/V423: Value labels seem to indicate that
 value 4 would be "100.001 and more inhabitants", but it is not clear
 from the documentation. Caution should be taken when using this
 variable. (6) P7_GB/V448, V461: Please notice erroneous coding for
 basic British regions in P7 and accordingly in all derived
 variables. At least GREATER LONDON ('16') and KENT ('18') seemed to be
 exchanged and therefore have been corrected in the present data set
edition. These variables should only be used with caution.