DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38334.v1
title: Eurobarometer 87.1: Two Years Until the 2019 European Elections, Attitudes of Europeans Towards Tobacco and Electronic Cigarettes, Climate Change, Attitudes Towards the Impact of Digitization and Automation on Daily Life, and Coach Services, March 2017
title: Version 1

description: The Eurobarometer series is a unique cross-national and cross-temporal survey program conducted on behalf of the European Commission. These surveys regularly monitor public opinion in the European Union (EU) member countries and consist of standard modules and special topic modules. The standard modules address attitudes towards European unification, institutions and policies, measurements for general socio-political orientations, as well as respondent and household demographics. The special topic modules address such topics as agriculture, education, natural environment and resources, public health, public safety and crime, and science and technology. Eurobarometer 87.1 covered the following special topics: two years until the 2019 European elections, tobacco and electronic cigarettes, climate change, the impact of digitization and automation on daily life, and coach services. Questions regarding the European elections in 2019 included information on and the role of the European Parliament (EP), the knowledge about European institutions and the EP, the present and future of the EP, European values and policies, European identity, and media use. Further questions were asked regarding smoking habits and various tobacco/nicotine products. Respondents were queried about their smoking habits, their efforts to quit smoking, passive smoking inside, and banning advertisements for tobacco products. Respondent's opinions were collected on which world issues they believed were the most serious problems, how serious the issue of climate change was and if the EU should be responsible for addressing it, and what actions they have personally taken to fight climate change. Respondents were also asked their awareness of, usage of, and attitude towards autonomous systems including robots, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, civil drones, cyber security, online social networks, and health services. Lastly, several questions were asked regarding the usage frequency of coach services, the reasons for using coaches, and the appraisal of services. Demographic and other background information collected includes left or right self-placement on political scale, age, gender, nationality, marital status, occupation, age when stopped full-time education, household composition, ownership of a fixed or mobile telephone and other goods, difficulties in paying bills, self-assessed social class, internet use, life satisfaction, political discussion frequency, and opinions on whether their voice counts in their country/EU. Country-specific data includes type and size of locality, region of residence, and language of interview (select countries).
description: For each sample, i.e. participating country or lower level region, a comparison between the sample composition and a proper universe description is carried out for internal weighting purposes. The universe description is made available by the National Survey Research Institutes and/or by EUROSTAT. On this basis, a national weighting procedure, using marginal and intercellular weighting, is applied. As such, in all countries, minimum sex, age, region NUTS II (basic regions as defined by the EUROSTAT nomenclature of territorial units for statistics), and size of locality are introduced in the iteration procedure. This poststratification weighting is also referred to as redressment or non-response weighting. A design weight which would adjust for unequal selection probabilities (depending on the household size) is not made available. Please refer to the deposited documentation, as well as ZACAT, for additional weighting information.
description: A multi-stage, random (probability) sampling design was used for this Eurobarometer. In the first stage, primary sampling units (PSU) were selected from each of the administrative regionals units in every country (Statistical Office of the European Community, EUROSTAT NUTS 2 or equivalent). PSU selection was systematic with probability proportional to population size, from sampling frames stratified by the degree of urbanization. In the next stage, a cluster of starting addresses was selected from each sampled PSU at random. Further addresses were chosen systematically using standard random route procedures as every Nth address from th initial address. In each household, a respondent was drawn, at random, following the closest birthday rule. No more than one interview was conducted in each household.
description: Datasets: DS1: Eurobarometer 87.1: Two Years Until the 2019 European Elections, Attitudes of Europeans Towards Tobacco and Electronic Cigarettes, Climate Change, Attitudes Towards the Impact of Digitization and Automation on Daily Life, and Coach Services, March 2017
description: Population of the respective nationalities of the European Union (EU) Member States and other EU nationals, resident in each of the 28 Member States and aged 15 years and over. Smallest Geographic Unit: Country
description: computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI); face-to-face interviewThe original data collection was carried out by TNS Opinion and Social on request of the European commission between March 18 and March 27, 2017. In some areas, fieldwork dates may vary slightly from this timeframe and users are encouraged to refer to the deposited documentation for more information.The following are important remarks for certain questions and modules in this Eurobarometer: Module QA (Two years until the 2019 European elections) partly replicates questions asked in the context of Eurobarometer 86.1 (ICPSR 36874) and Eurobarometer 84.1 (ICPSR 36668). Module QB (Attitudes of Europeans towards tobacco and electronic cigarettes) partly replicates questions asked in the context of Eurobarometer 82.4 (ICPSR 36664). Module QC (Climate change) partly replicates questions asked in the context of Eurobarometer 83.4 (ICPSR 36403). Module QD (Attitudes towards the impact of digitisation and automation on daily life) partly replicates questions asked in the context of Eurobarometer 82.4 (ICPSR 36664). Question module QE "Coach services" was newly introduced. No data are available for protocol items p8 (postal code), p9 (sample point number), p10 (interviewer number) and p11.For more information regarding technical information on specific variables, including changes from prior, unreleased versions of the data to the current release, please see the deposited documentation.Access to GESIS data and documentation, including the GESIS DOI, for Eurobarometer 87.1 can be found through the GESIS Data Catalogue. Additional information on the Eurobarometer Survey Series and the Eurobarometer data can be found at the GESIS Eurobarometer website and ZACAT, respectively.