DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04056.v2
title: Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.4, October-November 2003
title: Version 2

description: The Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (CCEB) series, first
 conducted in 2001, gathers information from the countries applying to
 become members of the European Union (EU) in a way that allows direct
 comparison with the standard Eurobarometer series carried out in the
 existing EU countries. The CCEB provides decision-makers and the
 European public with opinion data on the similarities and differences
 between the EU and the candidate countries. The CCEB continuously
 tracks support for EU membership in each country and records changes
 in attitudes related to European issues in the candidate countries.
 This round of the CCEB surveys was conducted between October 11 and
 November 8, 2003, in the 13 candidate countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus,
 Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland,
 Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. Respondents were queried on
 such topics as life satisfaction and expectations, political
 participation, trust in institutions, national and European identity,
 international threats, democracy satisfaction, European currency,
 European elections, fraud in the EU, and trust in opinion polls.
 Respondents also answered questions focusing on the EU and its image,
 citizenship, institutions, membership, enlargement, unification,
 importance, statements on EU policies, particularly foreign and
 defense policies, EU policy priorities, EU decision-making influence
 (i.e., the European Commission, Parliament, and Council), EU
 accession, and the EU's role in the world and in relation to the
 United States. Background variables include nationality, marital
 status, level of education, age, number of people living in household,
 whether anyone in the household owned a color television set, video
 recorder, video camera, automatic washing machine, dishwasher, home
 computer, microwave oven, mobile phone, or two or more cars, current
 occupation, whether the respondent was paid directly or indirectly by
 the state, local government, or other public administration, religious
affiliation, and voting intent.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.4, October-November 2003
description: Citizens aged 15 and over residing in the 13 countries
 applying for European Union membership: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech
 Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania,
 Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. There are two exceptions. In Estonia,
 the survey covered permanent residents aged 15 and over. In Cyprus,
 the survey only covered citizens living on the southern part of the
island. Smallest Geographic Unit: country
description: personal interviews(1) The files included with this release of the
 collection derive from the data producer, Gallup Organization Hungary
 (Magyar Gallup Intezet). However, additional processing of the data
 was performed at the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung in
 Cologne, Germany. (2) The documentation (codebook and SPSS setup file)
 for this collection contains characters with diacritical marks used in
many European languages.