DOI: 10.3886/icpsr06106
title: Central and Eastern Euro-barometer 3: Political Disintegration, October-November 1992
title: Archival Version

description: This round of Central and Eastern Euro-Barometer Surveys
 focused on public support for the European Community (EC) and on
 attitudes toward political and economic reforms and other issues
 facing Europe. Respondents were asked whether they felt their country
 was going in the right direction in general, how well their country's
 economy and their own finances had fared over the past year, whether
 they thought the establishment of a free market economy was right or
 wrong, and whether economic reforms and privatization were occurring
 too fast or too slowly. Satisfaction with the development of democracy
 and with their own place in their political system was assessed, as
 was intention to vote in the next general election. A series of
 questions elicited opinions on the respect for human rights in one's
 own country and on the situation for minority rights. Several items
 concerned respondents' trust in various forms of information media,
 including broadcasts from the West. Respondents were asked how
 frequently they thought of themselves as European. They were also
 asked to indicate how aware they were of, and how interested in, the
 European Community and its activities and institutions, and to rate
 how positively they regarded the European Community and the prospect
 of their country's membership in the Community. Country-specific
 questions were asked regarding sources of information about the
 European Community. Participants were also asked about how the
 economy, government, and private citizens might be advantaged or
 disadvantaged by the country's increasing ties with the European
 Community. The survey explored the prospect of future alignments with
 the United States, the European Community, other East European
 countries, other (non-EC) European countries, Russia, Turkey, Japan,
 and South Korea. Opinions were sought on the fairness of European
 Community and other countries' trade and assistance policies. In
 addition, respondents' views were obtained on the break-up of European
 nations, their personal likelihood of emigration to other European
 countries, and the effectiveness of the United Nations and other
 international organizations' intervention in the former Yugoslavia. A
 few of these questions were asked of a small sample of persons in
 Serbia and Croatia. Demographic data collected on each participant
 include age, education, occupation, religion, ethnic background,
 mother tongue, citizenship, union membership, left/right political
placement, sex, and income.
description: Multistage national probability samples and national
 stratified quota samples. In Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova, some areas
 could not be covered by the survey due to hostilities. The Northeast,
 Vaik, and Zangezur were not surveyed in Armenia, resulting in 90
 percent coverage of that country. In Georgia, 90 percent of the area
 was surveyed, including 68 percent of Abkhazia. The Transdnistria area
 of Moldova was also omitted from the survey due to fighting, resulting
 in just 82 percent of that country being covered. In each of these
 cases, the final sample was representative of that portion of the
country that could be covered.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Central and Eastern Euro-barometer 3: Political Disintegration, October-November 1992
description: Citizens of 17 Central and Eastern European countries,
 aged 15 and over, residing in Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria,
 Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
 Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia (west of the Urals),
Slovenia, and Ukraine.
description: face-to-face interview