DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04107.v2
title: Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.2, May 2003
title: Version 2

description: The Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (CCEB) series, first
conducted in 2001, gathers information from the countries applying to
become members of the European Union (EU) in a way that allows direct
comparison with the standard Eurobarometer series carried out in the
existing EU countries. The CCEB provides decision-makers and the
European public with opinion data on the similarities and differences
between the EU and the candidate countries. The CCEB continuously
tracks support for EU membership in each country and records changes
in attitudes related to European issues in the candidate countries.
This round of the CCEB surveys was conducted between May 2 and May 31,
2003, in the 13 candidate countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia, and Turkey. Respondents were queried on such topics as life
satisfaction and expectations, European countries visited and worked
in, attitudes towards foreigners, trust in institutions, national and
European identity, European currency, European elections, political
participation, democracy satisfaction, and important national issues
(e.g., crime, public transportation, rising prices/inflation,
taxation, unemployment, terrorism, and the educational system).
Respondents also answered questions focusing on the EU's importance,
national decision-making policies (particularly foreign and defense
policies), policy priorities, image, membership, enlargement,
unification, and constitution. Demographic variables include
nationality, age, gender, household income, current occupation and
whether the respondent was paid directly or indirectly by the state,
local government, or other public administration, marital status,
level of education, number of people living in household, whether
anyone in the household owned a color television set, video recorder,
video camera, automatic washing machine, dishwasher, home computer,
microwave oven, mobile phone, or two or more cars, religious
affiliation and how often religious services were attended, and voting
intent.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.2, May 2003
description: Citizens aged 15 and older residing in the 13 countries
applying for European Union membership: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. There are two exceptions. In Estonia,
the survey covered permanent residents aged 15 and older. In Cyprus,
the survey only covered the territory of the Republic of Cyprus.
description: face-to-face interviewThe files included with this release of the
collection derive from the data producer, Gallup Organization Hungary
(Magyar Gallup Intezet). However, additional processing of the data was
performed at the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung in
Cologne, Germany.Variables with a dot "." in the name have been
replaced by an underscore "_" for technical reason.The
documentation (codebook and SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files) for this
collection contains characters with diacritical marks used in many
European languages.