DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02090.v1
title: Eurobarometer 47.2: Women and Cancer, the European Parliament, and Expectations of the European Union, April-June 1997
title: Version 1

description: This round of Eurobarometer surveys queried respondents on
standard Eurobarometer measures, such as whether they attempted to
persuade others close to them to share their views on subjects they
held strong opinions about and whether they discussed political
matters. Additional questions focused on the respondents' knowledge of
and opinions on the European Union (EU), including what sources of
information about the EU they used and whether their country had
benefited from being an EU member. This study also focused on women
and cancer, the role of the European Parliament, and expectations of
the EU. All female respondents were asked if they thought they could
ever have breast or cervical cancer, and if they knew anybody who
currently had cancer, had had it, or had died from it. Female
respondents also indicated the types of examinations they had had,
their confidence in preventive examinations including whether or not
cancer prevention is possible, and whether they thought manual breast
examinations, mammographies, gynecological examinations, and cervical
smear tests could detect cancer. Female respondents also commented on
their knowledge of national screening programs, their willingness to
participate in such programs, and which aspects of cancer they would
like to be better informed about. Items concerning the European
Parliament asked all respondents about its current importance within
the EU, policy areas to which it should pay particular attention, and
whether it protected citizen's interests. Other queries focused on
fears and expectations regarding the EU. Respondents were asked if
they feared loss of power for smaller member states, increased drug
trafficking, language acculturation, loss of national identity,
transfer of jobs, more taxes, or other countries joining the
EU. Respondents indicated whether the EU should become more active in
areas of peace, agriculture, fishing, immigration, environmental
protection, consumerism, research efforts, unemployment, crime
prevention, European law, gender equality, and protection from
non-European competition. With respect to building Europe, opinions
were sought on the necessity of policies such as a single internal
market, a common agricultural policy, a European social policy, one
foreign policy, one army, one currency, one tax system, and an elected
European government. Demographic and other background information
provided includes respondent's age, sex, marital status, and
left-right political self-placement as well as household income, the
number of people residing in the home, and region of residence.
Respondents aged 15-24 years were also surveyed on a variety of
additional topics including the EU, elderly people, family planning,
religion, foreigners, employment, activities, and organization
memberships. The data regarding this topic are reported in
EUROBAROMETER 47.2OVR: YOUNG EUROPEANS, APRIL-JUNE 1997 (ICPSR 2091).
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Eurobarometer 47.2: Women and Cancer, the European Parliament, and Expectations of the European Union, April-June 1997
description: Citizens of the European Union 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: Data processing for this collection was performed
at the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung (ZA) in Cologne,
Germany.One respondent (INTERVIEW NUMBER 100481) with non-EU
nationality and one respondent (INTERVIEW NUMBER 100290) who answered
"don't know" to the question about nationality were permitted to
complete interviews. If desired, these cases can be excluded from
analysis.