DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02559
title: Eurobarometer 49: Food Product Safety, Child Sex Tourism, Health Care, and Cancer, April-May 1998
title: Archival Version

description: This round of Eurobarometer surveys queried respondents on
 standard Eurobarometer measures such as public awareness of and
 attitudes toward the European Union (EU), and also focused on the
 safety of food products, sex tourism with children (people away on a
 holiday or business trip having sex with children), health care
 issues, and cancer awareness. Respondents were queried about food
 product safety issues, including which foods were considered safe,
 under which types of controls a food product was considered safe, the
 necessity for more frequent and stricter controls, factors that
 determined the safety of a food product, where the safest food
 products could be purchased, who told the truth about the safety of
 food products, reasons for using or not using label information, the
 type of information read and used, whether the respondent followed
 food use and storage instructions, and the types of information that
 should be on food product labels. Other topics covered in this survey
 included health care and cancer. Respondents reported on their general
 state of health, and whether they had recently visited a doctor or had
 been treated in a hospital. They provided information on their level
 of satisfaction with the health care system in their country, their
 opinions on health care options and treatments, how spending for
 health care should be financed, and their reactions to several
 examples about the use of health care resources. Questions on cancer
 focused on respondents' understanding of possible symptoms, their
 opinions on the prevention of cancer, and the importance of national
 screening programs for breast cancer. Women and men were asked
 separate sets of questions about breast cancer and prostate
 cancer. This survey also asked respondents about "child sex tourism,"
 including awareness of and willingness to discuss sex tourism
 involving children, and opinions regarding how common this problem is,
 where it takes place, the kind of people who take part in it, the
 reasons why people would take part, and the moral and legal
 acceptability of child sex tourism. Demographic and other background
 information provided includes respondent's age, sex, marital status,
 occupation, left-right political self-placement and vote intention, as
 well as household income, the number of people residing in the home,
and region of residence.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Eurobarometer 49: Food Product Safety, Child Sex Tourism, Health Care, and Cancer, April-May 1998
description: Persons aged 15 and over residing in the 15 member nations
 of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France,
 Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
description: (1) Data processing for this collection was performed
 at the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung (ZA) in Cologne,
 Germany. (2) The codebook is provided by ZA and the data collection
 instrument is provided by ICPSR as Portable Document Format (PDF)
 files. 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.