DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02088
title: Eurobarometer 47.0: Images of Germany, Consumer Issues, Electronic Information, and Fair Trade Practices, January-February 1997
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
 Germany's image, consumer issues, electronic information services, and
 the purchase of fair trade products. Respondents were asked about
 their interest in Germany, the sources used to obtain information
 about Germany, and their opinion of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl with
 respect to his ability to further European integration. Respondents
 were also asked a series of questions relating to consumerism, with an
 emphasis on the quality of products sold, product safety, consumer
 protection, consumer legislation, consumer education, and product
 information. Also covered were prices, financial services, and the
 transition to the single European currency, the euro. Opinions were
 elicited on the quality of public services that have been or may be
 opened to competition, including water, gas, electricity, telephones,
 rubbish collection, hospitals, courts, mail, motorways, buses,
 railways, trams, subways, and air travel. A few questions probed for
 views on environmental issues such as the leading causes of
 environmental damage and proposed solutions. Other questions focused
 on respondent knowledge of and purchase of fair trade
 products. Respondents were asked how many bananas they bought, where
 and from whom they bought them, and whether they would pay more for
 bananas if they were produced according to fair trade
 conditions. Questions about electronic information concerned access to
 and interest in technologies such as satellite dishes, television
 decoders, teletext, minitel or videotext, video recorders, computers,
 CD-ROMs, fax, portable telephones, the Internet, pagers, and cable
 television. Demographic and other background information provided
 includes respondent's age, sex, marital status, and left-right
 political self-placement, as well as household income, number of
people residing in the home, and region of residence.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Eurobarometer 47.0: Images of Germany, Consumer Issues, Electronic Information, and Fair Trade Practices, January-February 1997
description: Persons aged 15 and older residing in the 15 member
 nations of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland,
 France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,
the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.
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.