DOI: 10.3886/icpsr06939
title: Eurobarometer 46.0: Personal Health, Energy, Development Aid, and the Common European Currency, October-November 1996
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 personal
 health issues, the Common European Currency, energy questions,
 development aid, and the rights of EU citizens. Respondents were asked
 if they thought exposure to the sun was good or bad for their health,
 how best to protect themselves from the sun, what type of skin, eye,
 and hair color they had, and what information they had received about
 the "Europe Against Cancer" campaign. In regard to the Common European
 Currency, they provided their attitudes toward having one currency for
 all member states, and commented on how well-informed they were about
 this issue, if they knew about the conditions that member countries
 must meet in order to join the European Economic and Monetary Union,
 if their own country would be able to meet the requirements and what
 the consequences would be if it did not, when euro coins and notes
 might be introduced, how the introduction of the single currency
 should proceed, and how it would affect economic policies and
 transactions. Questions about energy use and consumption covered
 problems that could affect the environment, if respondents had made
 attempts to conserve energy use in recent years and how they might do
 so in the future, how effective public bodies were in saving energy,
 and whether energy investment decisions should be left to market
 forces or to public bodies. Views regarding the availability and cost
 of energy resources over the next ten years, the importance of nuclear
 energy, the role of taxes in energy consumption, and whether public or
 private transportation should be favored in traffic planning decisions
 were also elicited. A battery of questions about developing countries
 focused on whether respondents thought there was a need to help poorer
 countries to develop, whether their own governments provided
 development aid, whether the European Commission provided such aid and
 if so, how much, and whether such aid should be increased or
 decreased. Other questions probed for opinions on whether developing
 countries used aid money to purchase goods from the EU, whether the
 Community's aid should be made better known, and how profitable it was
 to invest in developing countries. Respondents were also asked if they
 thought Europe, the United States, or Japan was best placed to help
 poor people, where Europe's exports were sent, if development aid
 helped to solve certain social and economic problems, and if they felt
 they received accurate accounts about developing countries from
 newspapers and television news programs. A few questions also focused
 on perceptions of the rights of citizens of the EU and where
 information could be located about such rights. Citizens from Germany,
 Spain, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom were asked about their
 attitudes toward other EU countries, which countries should join the
 Monetary Union, how important the introduction of the single currency
 by January 1, 1999, was, and how likely it was that the deadline would
 be met. Demographic items included age, gender, marital status,
 household size, monthly income, education, size of community, region,
and occupation.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Eurobarometer 46.0: Personal Health, Energy, Development Aid, and the Common European Currency, October-November 1996
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 in Cologne,
 Germany. (2) The codebook and data collection instrument are provided
 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.