DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09771
title: Euro-barometer 36.0: Regional Identity and Perceptions of the Third World, Fall 1991
title: Archival Version

description: This round of Eurobarometer surveys investigated the level 
 of public support for the European Community (EC) and assessed 
 attitudes toward regional development and perceptions of the Third 
 World. Respondents were asked how well-informed they felt about the EC, 
 how supportive they were of efforts being made to unify Western Europe, 
 whether their country had benefited from being an EC member, and their 
 personal interest in EC matters. Respondents were also asked to judge 
 which areas of policy should be decided by national governments and 
 which by a central Community structure, and to express their reactions 
 to the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, their expectations for 
 the Single European Market, and their attitudes about the role and 
 importance of the European Parliament. A new series of questions 
 examined respondents' views toward the recording and distribution of 
 personal information by private and public organizations, the recording 
 and use of certain types of information, and the transfer of personal 
 information among organizations. Questions about smoking included 
 whether the respondent had heard of the European Code Against Cancer, 
 whether the respondent smoked, what tobacco products were used by 
 smokers, how many cigarettes were smoked in a day by the respondent, 
 and whether smokers had plans to cut down their tobacco consumption. 
 Items on regional identification included respondents' conceptions of 
 "their region," attachment to their town, village, region, or 
 country, whether there were policies to develop less-favored regions in 
 member countries, whether there should be policies to develop regions 
 in member countries, and what the European Community's policy should be 
 with respect to developing regions in the European Community. Queries 
 about the Third World included perceptions of the extent of hunger and 
 economic development in the Third World, the respondent's personal 
 impression and experience with the Third World, the respondent's 
 source and need for information about the Third World, whether 
 aid should be given to Third World countries and the expected nature 
 and benefit of that aid, what the aim of relations with Third World 
 countries should be, and the expected future of the Third World. As in 
 previous Eurobarometers, questions on political party preference asked 
 respondents which party they felt the closest to, how they voted in 
 their country's last general election, and how they would vote if a 
 general election were held tomorrow. Additional information was 
 gathered on family income, number of people residing in the home, size 
 of locality, home ownership, region of residence, occupation of the 
 head of household, and the respondent's age, sex, occupation, 
 education, religion, religiosity, subjective social class standing, 
socio-professional status, and left-right political self-placement.
description: Multistage national probability sample.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Euro-barometer 36.0: Regional Identity and Perceptions of the Third World, Fall 1991
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: (1) Initial data processing for this collection was
 performed at the Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung (ZA) in
 Koeln, Germany. (2) 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 PDF
 reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how
 to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR
Website on the Internet.