DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03475
title: Eurobarometer 56.1: Social Exclusion and Modernization of Pension Systems, September-October 2001
title: Archival Version

description: This round of Eurobarometer surveys diverged from standard
 questions instead it focused on the social exclusion and modernization
 of pension systems in European Union countries. Respondents were asked
 why people were socially excluded, what the role of government should
 be in reducing the risk of poverty and social exclusion, how satisfied
 they were with their lives, whether there were people in their
 neighborhoods who lived in poverty, and what it meant to live properly.
 They were also asked whether they had financial problems, and if so,
 for how long and what had caused them. A number of questions focused on
 problems related to work. Respondents were asked whether they had been
 unemployed in the last five years and if so for how long. Those
 employed or self-employed were asked questions concerning job
 satisfaction, the type of organization for which they worked, the
 number of hours worked, their job title, number of people employed at
 their workplace, how long they had been continuously employed, and what
 they took into consideration when choosing a job. They were also asked
 whether their job was interesting and secure, whether they had to work
 hard and under pressure, whether their employers paid for training or
 education, whether they had friends at work, and whether they had
 influence over the decision-making processes at their workplace and in
 deciding how to do their tasks. They also compared different aspects of
 their current job with what they had been doing five years ago,
 described relations between management and employees, and commented on
 how their work affected their health and their lives after work.
 Another major focus of the surveys was the pension system. Those who
 had already retired were asked at what age they had retired, what the
 main source of their retirement income was, whether their current
 financial situation was better than before retirement and what it would
 look like in five to ten years, and whether the state pension allowed
 them to get by easily. Non-pensioners supplied information about when
 they intended to retire, what their main source of income would be
 after retirement, what percentage of their current household's total
 income after tax they considered sufficient in retirement, and how they
 were saving for their retirement. Additionally, respondents were asked
 what a good pension system should look like, how the pension should be
 provided, what level of minimum guaranteed income should be provided
 for elderly people, whether older workers should be forced to retire at
 a fixed age, whether men and women should be treated equally in terms
 of the retirement system, and how retirement problems caused by an
 aging society should be resolved. Demographic and other background
 information collected includes respondent's age, gender, nationality,
 marital status, left-right political self-placement, occupation, age at
 completion of education, trade union membership, household income, type
and size of locality, and region of residence.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Eurobarometer 56.1: Social Exclusion and Modernization of Pension Systems, September-October 2001
description: Citizens of the EU aged 15 and over residing in the 15 EU
 member countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
 Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain,
Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
description: Additional processing for
 this collection was performed at the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische
 Sozialforschung (ZA) in Cologne, Germany. The codebook and
 setup files for this collection contain characters with diacritical
 marks used in many European languages. Although the setup
 files contain references to Norway, Norway was not a participant in
 this wave of Eurobarometer surveys and this collection contains no
 data for Norway. Q3 (MINIMUM INCOME): data are not
 available. Q16/V98-V100: Some respondents, who indicated to
 have been unemployed in the last 5 years (coded 1 = YES in V98), did
 not answer the follow up question (how many TIMES being unemployed)
 and were coded NEVER in the summarized variable. A total of 68 cases
 have been recoded to NA (code 0) in V99 and V100.
 Q18/V102-V114 (PERSONAL SITUATION): Answer category "Not
 applicable" is not always meaningful. Q29/V167-V168
 (OCCUPATION - WORKING HOURS): Please notice implausible out-of-range
 values of 300 and more indicated for Finland (plus 1 case in
 France). The irregular Finnish cases have been recoded as follows,
 using the first two digits, which might be considered regular entries,
 adding 900: 300-&gt;930, 320-&gt;932, 345-&gt;934 350-&gt;935, 360-&gt;936,
 370-&gt;937, 380-&gt;938, 390-&gt;939, 400-&gt;940, 420-&gt;942, 450-&gt;945 in V167. In
 the summarized variable V168 all irregular Finnish cases have been
 coded to 95. The single French out-of-range case (code 354) has been
 recoded to NA (Code 0) in V167 and V168. Q30b/V170-V171
 (WORKING HOURS PREFERENCE): Due to implausible out-of-range values
 coding "112" up to "499" as weekly working hours preference, a total
 of 5 cases have been coded to NA (code 0) in V170 and V171.
 Q41/V238-V249 (WORKING CONDITION): Answer category "Not
 applicable" is not always meaningful. Q48/V304-V305
 (RETIREMENT - AGE INTENDED): Implausible low values (three cases coded
 3 and 9) have been recoded to NA (code 0). Q48/V304-V305
 and Q49/V306-V307 (RETIREMENT - AGE): Please notice cases indicating
 implausible high and low ages, compared to the actual AGE of the
 respondent as coded in D11/V432. D8/V429-V430: For one
 respondent the indicated AGE "WHEN STOPPED FULL-TIME EDUCATION" was
 too high for the ACTUAL AGE (D11/V430). The case was recoded to NA
 (code 0) in V429 and V430. Sixty-two MISSING CASES that are coded "2"
 (STUDENT) in D15A/V145 have been recoded to "98" in V429 and "10" in
 V430 (STILL STUDYING). D29/V458 (INCOME HH QUARTILES):
 Please notice that the income quartiles are produced for comparison
 purposes and are retained as provided by the principal investigator.
 They are based on categorized income question as coded in the country
 specific variables V440 to V456. P7_GB/V489, V502: Please
 notice erroneous coding for basic British regions in P7 and
 accordingly in all derived variables. At least GREATER LONDON (16) and
 KENT (18) seemed to be exchanged and therefore have been corrected in
 the present dataset edition. This variable should only be used with
 caution. D19A/B: Notice that starting with Eurobarometer
 55.1 question D19 has been modified. D19A (HH MAINLY LOOKING AFTER
 HOME) is not available anymore, and for D19B (HH MAINLY INCOME [HEAD
 OF HH]) the answer category "both equally" has been added.