DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09022.v1
title: Euro-Barometer 16: Noise and Other Social Problems, October 1981
title: Version 1

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 years, and how they viewed the need for
societal change. Additional questions focused on the respondents'
knowledge of and opinions on the European Community (EC), including
how well-informed they felt about the EC, what sources of information
about the EC they used, whether their country had benefited from being
an EC member, and the extent of their personal interest in EC
matters. Another major focus of the surveys was noise and other social
problems. Respondents were asked about the existence of and degree of
disturbance caused by various traffic and street noises, mechanical
noises, and noisy neighbors. A battery of questions about social and
political issues also was asked, e.g., inequality of income, nuclear
energy, terrorism, expansion of private industry, military defense,
the economy, the environment, and regional autonomy. Demographic
information about the respondents includes age, sex, religion, marital
status, age upon completion of full-time education, occupation of head
of household, composition of household, subjective size of town, and
family income. Several constructed indices also are included.
Euro-Barometer 16 contains data gathered from representative samples
of respondents who were interviewed in each of the ten nations of the
EC (Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, France, Belgium,
Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Greece) in October 1981.
description: The data are not weighted, however there are three weight variables, V6 (NATN WGT), V7 (EURO WGT), and V8 (UK WGT), 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:
			   		Performed consistency checks.; Standardized missing values.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: 
					
						DS1: Dataset
description: Eurobarometer Survey Series
description: face-to-face interview
					The text of the British questionnaire was used in
constructing the codebook.In order to produce samples more
representative of the German, Dutch, Danish, and Irish populations, a
national weight variable was constructed for those nations. A United
Kingdom weight adjusts the British and Northern Irish respondents to
their respective proportions in the United Kingdom.
description: Citizens of the EC aged 15 and over residing in Belgium,
Denmark, France, Germany, the Great Britain (including Northern
Ireland), Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
				   		Smallest Geographic Unit: country
description: The sampling designs were either multistage national
probability samples or national stratified quota samples.