DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09847.v1
title: Euro-barometer 37.0: Awareness and Importance of Maastricht and the Future of the European Community, March-April 1992
title: Version 1

description: This round of Euro-Barometer surveys investigated the level 
 of public support for the European Community (EC) and assessed 
 attitudes toward European integration. 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 how interested they were personally in EC 
 matters. Other queries focused on respondent reaction to the European 
 flag, the feeling of being a citizen of Europe both now and in the 
 future, opinions relating to the speed of European unification, 
 impressions of the work of the European Commission, and how well a list 
 of statements corresponded to the respondent's hopes for the future of 
 the EC. Respondents also judged which areas of policy should be decided 
 by national governments and which by a central EC structure, and 
 expressed their reactions to the Common Agricultural Policy, their 
 expectations for the Single European Market and whether it should 
 contain a social dimension, and their attitudes about the role and 
 importance of the European Parliament. A number of questions focused 
 specifically on the meeting and treaty produced in the Dutch town of 
 Maastricht in December 1991. Respondents were queried about their 
 knowledge of the gathering and its possible effects on the EC, on their 
 own countries, and on their personal lives. Opinions were also sought 
 on the desirability and positive and negative effects of certain 
 countries joining the EC, and what the rights of citizens of other 
 member countries should be when residing in the respondent's nation. 
 Attitudes toward immigrants from nonmember countries were elicited as 
 well. A set of questions focused on environmental problems, ecological 
 concerns, and the priority assigned to economic development when 
 assessing these issues. Respondents were asked to identify factors that 
 caused serious damage to the environment, and to comment on what could 
 be done to lessen pollution. They were also asked about the role of 
 public bodies in protecting and informing the public about 
 environmental concerns, sources of information about these concerns, 
 and their hopes for the upcoming United Nations Conference for the 
 Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As in previous 
 Euro-Barometers, questions on political party preference were posed, 
 including which party respondents felt 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 samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Raw Data File
DS2: SAS Data Definition Statements
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 the nation of Norway.
description: (1) This collection also contains data from respondents 
 in Norway. These respondents answered many of the same questions posed 
 to those living in the 12 member nations of the European Community. (2) 
 Data processing for this collection was performed at the Zentralarchiv 
fur Empirische Sozialforschung in Cologne, Germany.