DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09577
title: Euro-barometer 34.1: Health Problems, Fall 1990
title: Archival Version

description: This round of Euro-Barometer surveys queried respondents on
 standard Euro-Barometer 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, what their country's goals
 should be for the next ten or fifteen years, and how they viewed the
 need for societal change. The surveys also focused on health problems.
 Questions about smoking examined whether the respondent had heard of
 the European Code Against Cancer and whether the respondent
 smoked. Smokers were asked what tobacco products they used, how many
 cigarettes they smoked in a day, and whether they planned to cut down
 on their tobacco consumption. Queries focusing on other health issues
 included respondents' subjective ratings of their health and diet, the
 basis for their foodstuff selections, the extent and impact of alcohol
 consumption on their driving, the extent of the problem of drinking
 and driving, how the problem of drinking and driving would be best
 addressed, and respondents' own use of alcohol. Opinions on alcohol
 and drug abuse were elicited through questions such as what type of
 problem the respondent considered alcohol and drug use to be, whether
 current measures were enough to solve abuse, what measures should be
 taken to solve the problems, the respondent's knowledge of drugs and
 the use of drugs, drug use among acquaintances, and how drug testing
 should be implemented. AIDS-related items focused on how the
 respondent thought AIDS could be contracted and which manner of
 transmission the respondent most feared, which interventions should be
 used to eliminate or to slow the spread of AIDS, which interventions
 should be undertaken by the European Community, how best to handle
 those who had AIDS or were HIV-positive, whether the respondent
 personally knew anyone with AIDS/HIV+, how the emergence and spread of
 AIDS had changed the respondent's personal habits, and what
 precautions were effective against contracting AIDS. Questions
 concerning the respondent's work history asked whether there had been
 periods without work lasting more than a year. A series of items
 focused on the longest period without pay: how long the period was,
 the age of the respondent during this period, the main reason for
 leaving the previous job, what the previous occupation was and whether
 it was part-time, what the new occupation was and whether it was
 part-time, and how the level of the new occupation compared to the
 previous occupation. The interaction of raising children and pursuing
 a career was investigated through questions including how many
 children the respondent had, what effect changes in family life had on
 working life, whether the respondent worked full- or part-time while
 raising children, and whether the respondent would prefer to care for
 children full-time, care for children part-time and work part-time, or
 work full-time. A series of questions pertained to the period prior to
 the respondent's first three children attending school: whether the
 respondent worked during this period, what the respondent's occupation
 was, the attributes of the occupation that concerned the family, the
 attributes of the partner's occupation that concerned the family, who
 the primary caregivers were, whether the partner was the primary
 caregiver, and whether there were difficulties making last-minute
 arrangements for child care. Additional information was gathered on
 family income, number of people residing in the home, size of
 locality, home ownership, region of residence, occupation of the head
 of household, and the respondent's age, sex, occupation, education,
 religion, religiosity, subjective social class standing, political
party and union membership, and left-right political self-placement.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Euro-barometer 34.1: Health Problems, Fall 1990
description: Persons aged 15 and over residing in the 12 member nations
 of the European Community: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,
 Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the
United Kingdom.
description: (1) Data processing for this collection was performed
 at the Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung (ZA) in Koeln,
 Germany. (2) The codebook and data collection instrument are provided
 by the ZA as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format
 was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using
 PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on
 how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR
Web site.