DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03384.v2
title: Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File, 1970-1999
title: Version 2

description: The Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File, created through
 cooperation of the Mannheimer Zentrum fur Europaische Sozialforschung
 (MZES) and the Zentrum fur Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA),
 combines the most important trend questions of the Eurobarometer
 surveys conducted between 1970 and 1999. The file consists of 100
 trend questions asked at least five times in standard Eurobarometer
 surveys. A total of 877,223 respondents from 15 European Union member
 nations (initially, six European Community nations) plus Norway in
 some years were interviewed in these surveys. The cumulative trend
 questions concentrated on European Community (EC)/European Union (EU)
 issues and other sociopolitical issues, as well as electoral
 behavior. The major focus of the surveys was respondents' knowledge of
 and opinions on the EU/EC, including how well-informed they felt about
 the EC/EU, whether their country had benefited from being an EC/EU
 member, and the extent of their personal interest in EC/EU matters. A
 number of questions concentrated on the European Parliament, the
 European Commission, and the Single European Market. Respondents were
 asked whether they heard about those institutions, what impression
 they had of the European Commission, what importance the Single
 European Market had, what role the European Parliament had, and how
 important the European Parliament elections were. They were also asked
 whether they were for or against European unification, whether the
 speed of European integration was appropriate, and whether they were
 satisfied with democracy in the EC/EU. Respondents determined policy
 areas in which decisions should be made separately by national
 governments and jointly within the EC/EU as a whole. Those polled were
 asked how satisfied they were with their lives, whether they attempted
 to persuade others close to them to share their views on subjects they
 held strong opinions about, whether they discussed political matters,
 and how they viewed the need for societal change. The surveys queried
 respondents about the general economic situation in their countries,
 how often they watched news on TV, read news in papers, and listened
 to news on the radio, their interest in politics and support for
 different types of political and social movements, and the probability
 of strikes and world war in the next ten years. A number of questions
 concentrated on respondents' voting behavior, including their
 intention to vote in EP elections and the party they voted for in the
 national elections. Demographic and other background information
 provides respondents' age, gender, marital status, the number of
 people residing in the household, number of children under 15 in the
 household, age at completion of education, left-right political
 self-placement, occupation, religion, subjective social class,
 political party affiliation, trade union membership, household income,
region of residence, and subjective size of community.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File, 1970-1999
description: Persons aged 15 and over residing in the EU (previously
EC) member countries and in Norway.
description: (1) Analysts should use this collection for
 replication purposes only. A new version, ICPSR 4357: The Mannheim
 Eurobarometer Trend File, 1970-2002, has replaced this collection. The
 updated version corrected errors in the data and documentaion, added
 an additional three years of data, and included some new variables and
 two new trends (TRUST and CITIZEN). (2) The files included with this
 release of the collection derive from the data producers, Mannheimer
 Zentrum fur Europaische Sozialforschung and Zentrum fur Umfragen,
 Methoden und Analysen. (3) In addition to the wild codes mentioned in
 the codebook on page 38 in footnote number 13, the AGE variable
 contains the additional following wild codes: 12, 13, and 14. (4) The
 codebook and appendices are provided by the data producers as Portable
Document Format (PDF) files.