DOI: 10.3886/icpsr06195.v4
title: Euro-barometer 39.0: European Community Policies and Family Life, March-April 1993
title: Version 4

description: This round of Euro-Barometer surveys focused on the current
 status of the European Community (EC), assessing respondents'
 awareness of and attitudes toward (1) the EC's activities and
 institutions, (2) various aspects of the Maastricht Treaty and the
 European Union, (3) EC policies, and (4) the European Parliament's
 work. A special set of questions focused on issues facing European
 societies, including family values and attitudes toward immigrants and
 people in other countries. Respondents were asked to rank their level
 of interest in European politics, and to indicate their level of
 support for the unification of Western Europe, including: (a) the
 degree to which they found European unification personally important,
 (b) whether they thought membership in the EC was a good thing, (c)
 whether membership would benefit their country, and (d) how they would
 feel if the EC were eliminated. They also rated how well they thought
 democracy worked in the EC and in their own country. Awareness of
 European institutions was measured by questions on how much
 respondents knew about the European Parliament, the European Council,
 the European Court, the European Commission, the Council of Ministers,
 and others. Several questions concerned the presidency of the EC's
 Council of Ministers, then held by Denmark. In addition, participants
 were asked about their knowledge of and attitudes toward the
 Maastricht Treaty on European Union and the proposed European Monetary
 Union. This section of the questionnaire explored the Maastricht
 Treaty's implications for national and EC control of drug traffic,
 crime, defense, immigration, and a number of other areas of public
 policy. With regard to defense policy, respondents were asked
 specifically whether the EC should intervene militarily in the
 conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Opinions were obtained on the
 formation of a European Union with a European government responsible
 to the European Parliament. The Single European Market, in operation
 since January 1, 1993, was the topic of several questions, including
 whether respondents regarded the Single Market with hope or fear, and
 whether they had yet had any direct experience with the Single
 Market. In anticipation of the first general election of a European
 Parliament by the European Community's citizens in June 1994, the
 survey assessed respondents' awareness of the European Parliament,
 their overall impressions of its work, and opinions about its role in
 policymaking. Participants' intentions to vote and reasons for not
 voting in the upcoming election were also solicited. A special focus
 of this Euro-Barometer was the family, its composition and personal
 importance to respondents, and family values. The respective roles of
 mother and father in various parenting tasks were explored. The trend
 for grown children to stay at home longer was evaluated by respondents
 as good or bad for the children and the parents. Respondents assessed
 the priority for government policy on a number of family issues, such
 as infant care leave, availability of child care, availability of
 housing, and flexible working hours. Citizens' opinions of other
 European peoples and countries were sought through questions asking
 how much trust respondents placed in the people of various EC
 countries (as well as the United States, Japan, and Russia), which
 countries they favored becoming part of the European Community, and
 which citizens of other countries ought to be able to work and reside
 in the European Community. A number of questions concerned immigration
 and its effects on the European Community. Opinions were also
 solicited about Summer Time, a move to prolong daylight by putting
 clocks forward one hour from the last Sunday in March to the last
 Sunday in September. As in previous Euro-Barometers, questions on
 political party preference asked respondents which party they felt
 closest to, how they voted in their country's last general election,
 and how they would vote if a general election were held the next
 day. Additional information was gathered on life satisfaction, family
 income, number of people residing in the home, size of locality, home
 ownership, trade union membership, region of residence, occupation of
 the head of household, and the respondent's age, sex, education,
 religion, religiosity, subjective social class standing,
 socio-professional status, languages spoken, access to and use of
media, left-right political self-placement, and opinion leadership.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Euro-barometer 39.0: European Community Policies and Family Life, March-April 1993
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, as well as in Norway.
description: The data collection instrument is provided as a
 Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed
 by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using the Adobe
 Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat
Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.