DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04139
title: Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2002.3, October-November 2002: Science and Technology
title: Archival Version

description: The Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (CCEB) series, first
 conducted in 2001, gathers information from the countries applying to
 become members of the European Union (EU) in a way that allows direct
 comparison with the standard Eurobarometer series carried out in the
 existing EU countries. The CCEB provides decision-makers and the
 European public with opinion data on the similarities and differences
 between the EU and the candidate countries. The CCEB continuously
 tracks support for EU membership in each country and records changes
 in attitudes related to European issues in the candidate countries.
 This round of the CCEB surveys was conducted between October 16 and
 November 17, 2002, in the 13 candidate countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus,
 Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland,
 Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. Respondents were queried on
 how interested and informed they were about science and technology,
 sports, politics, economics and finance, and culture, which
 professions they held in high regard (e.g., judges, medical doctors,
 politicians, or scientists), and who they would trust to explain the
 reasons for a major disaster (e.g., scientists, journalists, or
 government representatives). Respondents were asked which scientific
 and technological developments interested them most (e.g., medicine,
 genetics, astronomy and space, or the Internet), how scientific they
 felt certain subjects were, such as biology, history, economics,
 mathematics, or sociology, and whether they understood certain
 concepts and phenomena as reported in the newspapers and on the
 television, like air pollution, global warning, the greenhouse effect,
 holes in the ozone layer, nanotechnologies, and bovine spongiform
 encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease). Respondents were further
 asked a series of true and false questions regarding science-based
 statements (e.g., the center of the Earth is hot, radioactive milk can
 be safe if boiled, electrons are smaller than atoms, the Sun goes
 around the Earth, and human beings developed from earlier species of
 animals). Respondents were also asked if they agreed with statements
 concerning science and technology and how science and technology
 affected or will affect everyday living, the environment, industrial
 development, and the fight to cure illnesses. Respondents were
 further questioned on whether they agreed with statements concerning
 ethical standards, genetically modified food, the way in which the
 media reported on science and technology, and the responsibility of
 scientists, politicians, farmers, and the food industry in relation to
 mad cow disease. The survey also addressed policy areas in which the
 EU should or should not be active (e.g., agriculture, environment,
 international trade, foreign affairs, defense, energy, consumer
 protection, employment and social affairs, and regional development),
 as well as how research carried out at the national level compared to
 research at the EU level and whether the respondent agreed with a
 series of statements regarding important scientific and technological
 developments (i.e., the Internet and biotechnology) originating
 outside of Europe. Demographic variables include sex, age,
 nationality, marital status, level of education, current occupation,
 income, whether the respondent lived in a rural area or village, small
 or middle sized town, or large town, religious affiliation, and voting
intent.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2002.3, October-November 2002: Science and Technology
description: Citizens aged 15 and over residing in the 13 countries
 applying for European Union membership: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech
 Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania,
 Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. There are two exceptions. In Estonia,
 the survey covered permanent residents aged 15 and over. In Cyprus,
 the survey only covered citizens aged 14 and over living on the
southern part of the island.
description: (1) The files included with the first release of this
 collection derive from the data producer, Gallup Organization Hungary
 (Magyar Gallup Intezet). (2) The documentation (codebook and SPSS data
 definition statements) for this collection contains characters with
 diacritical marks used in many European languages. (3) The
 questionnaire located in the codebook was also used for CANDIDATE
 COUNTRIES EUROBAROMETER 2002.3, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2002: NEW EUROPEANS
 AND AGRICULTURE (ICPSR 4140). Questions Q.1-Q.28 correspond to the
 Science and Technology component only. (4) The codebook is provided by
 ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. 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.