DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09321.v1
title: Euro-Barometer 30: Immigrants and Out-Groups in Western Europe, October-November 1988
title: Version 1

description: This round of Euro-Barometer surveys investigated life
satisfaction, union membership, smoking habits, knowledge and views
regarding cancer, views on the importance of NATO and certain national
problems, attitudes toward democracy and individual liberties,
attitudes toward immigrants and out-groups (i.e., people of another
nationality, race, religion, culture, or social class), and knowledge
of and attitudes toward European Community institutions and policies,
including the Common Agricultural Policy and the creation of a single
European market in 1992. Respondents also were asked to name current
topics and events most important for them and to state whether or not
certain causes such as the protection of wildlife and the promotion of
world peace were worth taking risks and making sacrifices for.
Questions on political party preferences asked respondents which party
they felt the closest to, how they voted in their country's last
general election, how they would vote if a general election were held
tomorrow, and how they planned to vote in the June 1989 elections for
the European Parliament. The survey also gauged respondents'
perceptions of the general attitude of each country's political parties
toward the European Community. The inquiry into out-groups asked
respondents to identify groups that came to mind when they thought of
people of another nationality, race, religion, culture, or social
class. Respondents were asked if they counted any out-group members
among their friends and if any of these persons worked at their place
of employment or lived in their neighborhood. Additional questions
asked respondents if they were disturbed by the presence of these
out-groups and if they thought that these groups exploited social
welfare benefits, increased unemployment, contributed to delinquency
and violence, affected property prices, or reduced the level of
education in schools. In West Germany, France, Great Britain, and the
Netherlands, respondents were queried about their attitudes and
feelings toward specific out-groups: Southern Europeans, North
Africans, Turks, Black Africans, Asians, Southeast Asians, West
Indians, Jews, Surinamers, and Northern Europeans. The section on
cancer queried respondents about their knowledge of the causes of
cancer and medical recommendations for its early detection and
prevention, and asked respondents if they followed or intended to
follow those recommendations. Additional information gathered includes
family income, home ownership, number of persons and children under 15
residing in the home, size of locality, region of residence, occupation
of the head of household, and the respondent's age, sex, occupation,
education, religion, religiosity, subjective social class standing, and
left-right political self-placement.
description: The data are not weighted, however there are three weight variables, V6 (NATION WEIGHT I), V8 (NATION WEIGHT II), and V9 (EUROPEAN WEIGHT), that users may wish to apply during analysis.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of 
				disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major 
				statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to 
				these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
			   		Performed consistency checks.; Standardized missing values.; Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: 
					
						DS1: Dataset
						DS10: Diskette D00049 (first of three-volume set)
						DS11: Diskette D00050 (second of three-volume set)
						DS12: Diskette D00051 (third of three-volume set)
description: Eurobarometer Survey Series
description: face-to-face interview
description: Persons aged 15 and over residing in the 12 member nations
of the European Community: Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland,
Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom,
and West Germany (including West Berlin).
				   		Smallest Geographic Unit: country
description: Multistage national probability samples and national
stratified quota samples.