DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04357.v1
title: The Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File, 1970-2002
title: Version 1

description: The Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File, a collaborative
 effort between the Mannheimer Zentrum fur Europaische Sozialforschung
 (MZES) and the Zentrum fur Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA),
 combined the most important trend questions of the Eurobarometer
 surveys conducted between 1970 and 2002. The file consisted of 105
 trend questions asked at least five times in standard Eurobarometer
 surveys. A total of 1,134,384 respondents from 15 European Union
 member nations (initially, six European Community nations) plus Norway
 in some years were interviewed in these surveys. The cumulative trend
 questions concentrated on the respondents' knowledge and opinions of
 the European Community (EC)/European Union (EU). Respondents were
 asked for their opinion regarding European unification and whether or
 not they were satisfied with the speed of regional integration.
 Respondents were also asked to describe their sentiments with respect
 to citizenship and whether they identified themselves more as a
 citizen of their home country or as a citizen of Europe. The surveys
 also asked questions regarding EC/EU institutions such as the European
 Parliament (EP), the European Commission, the European Court of
 Justice, and the European Central Bank, among others. Respondents were
 asked whether they had heard about EC/EU institutions, the importance
 of these institutions, and whether or not they believed these
 institutions to be trustworthy. The surveys addressed several other
 issues of economy, society, and polity including the overall state of
 the economy in the EU and its individual member states, the
 respondents' overall satisfaction with their lives, whether certain
 policy decisions should be made at the EU or national level, the
 importance of European Parliamentary elections, recent voting
 behavior, voter intentions, party preferences, whether respondents
 discussed political matters, whether they attempted to persuade others
 close to them to share their views on subjects they held strong
 opinions about, and how they viewed the need for societal change.
 Respondents were asked how closely they followed various news and by
 which media they received the news, how much they supported different
 types of political and social movements, and what they believed was
 the probability of strikes and world war in the next ten years.
 Demographic and other background information collected included the
 respondents' age, gender, and marital status, the number of people
 residing in the household, the number of children under 15 in the
 household, respondent's age at completion of education, left-right
 political self-placement, occupation, religion, subjective social
 class, political party affiliation, trade union membership, household
income, region of residence, and subjective size of community.
description: WSAMPLE is the most basic of all three weighting factors. It
 adjusts distributions in the sample to those in the respective
 universes. WSAMPLE should be used together with id variable NATION1.
 As more than one sample is drawn for some nations, WNATION is used to
 adjust distributions to those in the respective nations. Note that
 WSAMPLE and WNATION only differ for the United Kingdom and, in later
 surveys, for Germany. WNATION should be used together with ID
 variable, NATION2. WEURO adjusts the size of national samples to the
 size of national populations relative to one another. This weight is
 used when the European Community/European Union is analyzed as an
entity rather than its constituent nations or regions.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: The Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File, 1970-2002
description: Persons aged 15 and over residing in the EU (previously
EC) member countries and in Norway. Smallest Geographic Unit: country
description: face-to-face interview(1) The files included with this release of the
 collection derive from the data producers, Mannheimer Zentrum fur
 Europaische Sozialforschung (MZES) and Zentrum fur Umfragen, Methoden
 und Analysen (ZUMA). (2) Errata detected in the data or documentation
 belonging to the first edition of the MANNHEIM EUROBAROMETER TREND
 FILE, 1970-1999 (ICPSR 3384) or in any of the corresponding single
 Eurobarometer surveys were corrected whenever possible or otherwise
 documented. (3) This second trend file edition (2.00) was produced
 under a cooperative arrangement between the Zentralarchiv fur
 Emprirische Sozialforschung at the University of Cologne (ZA) and
 MZES. Sixteen Eurobarometer surveys (52.0-57.2) covering the time
 period 1999-2002 were added to the trend file. The 100 trend questions
 of the first edition (1970-1999) were continued if available during
 this time period and included the documentation of variations in
 question wording. Furthermore, two new trends (TRUST and CITIZEN),
 that now meet the minimum frequency condition, were also added to the
 trend file. Also new to the trend file was the tech variable, EDITION,
 used to identify the dataset edition and version. The tech variable,
 NATION, was divided into NATION1 and NATION2. NATION1 corresponded
 exactly to the original variable, NATION, while NATION2 collapsed the
 separate samples for Germany (East and West) and the United
 Kingdom. Including the split of EPIMP into EPIMP1 and EPIMP2, the
trend file now contains a total of 105 questions.