DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09322.v3
title: Euro-Barometer 31: European Elections, 1989: Pre-Election Survey, March-April 1989
title: Version 3

description: This round of Euro-Barometer surveys had for its major focus
issues surrounding the European elections. Questions on political party
preferences asked respondents which party they felt the closest to, how
they voted in their country's last general election, how they would
vote if a general election were held tomorrow, which party they would
vote for within their countries, how they planned to vote in the June
1989 elections for the European Parliament, how they viewed the
importance of certain national problems, and what they thought about
democracy and individual liberties. Respondents were asked about their
usage of the media for news, their opinions of an "All Europe"
television channel and what it should offer, and how the single
European market planned for in 1992 would affect their lives. The
survey also gauged respondents' perceptions of the general attitude of
their countries' political parties toward the most important problems
facing their nations. Other items included life satisfaction, union
membership, smoking habits, views on environmental issues such as
nuclear accidents and radioactivity, views regarding cancer, and
knowledge of and attitudes toward European Community institutions and
policies, including the Common Agricultural Policy. Respondents also
were asked to name current topics and events most important for them
and to state whether or not certain causes such as the promotion of
world peace were worth taking risks and making sacrifices for. The
section on cancer queried respondents about their knowledge of the
causes of cancer and medical recommendations for its early detection
and prevention, and asked respondents if they followed or intended to
follow those recommendations. Women were questioned about specific
kinds of cancer detection examinations as well. Additional information
was gathered on family income, number of persons and children under 15
residing in the home, size of locality, region of residence, occupation
of the head of household, and the respondent's age, sex, occupation,
education, religion, religiosity, subjective social class standing, and
left-right political self-placement.
description: The data are not weighted, however there are three weight variables, V6 (NATION WEIGHT I), V8 (NATION WEIGHT II), and V9 (EUROPEAN WEIGHT), that users may wish to apply during analysis.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of 
				disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major 
				statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to 
				these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
			   		Standardized missing values.; Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: 
					
						DS1: Dataset
description: Eurobarometer Survey Series
description: face-to-face interview
description: Persons aged 15 and over residing in the 12 member nations
of the European Community: Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland,
Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom,
and West Germany (including West Berlin).
				   		Smallest Geographic Unit: country
description: Multistage national probability samples and national
stratified quota samples.