DOI: 10.3886/icpsr07958.v1
title: Euro-barometer 14: Trust in the European Community, October 1980
title: Version 1

description: This round of Euro-Barometer surveys queried respondents on
standard Euro-Barometer measures, such as how satisfied they were with
their present life, 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, what their country's goals
should be for the next ten years, and how they viewed the need for
societal change. Additional questions focused on the respondents'
knowledge of and opinions on the European Community (EC). Another
major focus of the surveys was trust in the European Community.
Respondents were asked for their attitudes (on a scale of
trustworthiness) toward citizens of each EC country as well as
citizens of Japan, the United States, Portugal, Switzerland, Russia,
and China. The survey also measured attitudes about political and
military ties with the United States, NATO, and Japan. A series of
questions asked only of Greek respondents measured opinions of the
potential impact of entry into the EC on Greek industry, agriculture,
commerce, tourism, employment, the standard of living, military
security, democracy, relations with Turkey, and culture. Demographic
information about respondents includes age, sex, marital status, age
at completion of education, family income, number of persons and
children living in respondent's home, income, occupation, size of town
where respondent resides, and number of people working at respondent's
workplace. Indices are included as created by the original
investigators. Euro-Barometer 14 contains data gathered from
representative samples of respondents who were interviewed in each of
the nine nations of the EC (Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Italy,
France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and the Netherlands) in October
1980. Additionally, in order to reflect the admission of Greece to the
European Community in early 1980, the study included a Greek sample
for the first time.
description: The data are not weighted, however, there are two weight variables, V6 (EUROWEIGHT) and V7 (NATION 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.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: 
					
						DS1: Dataset
description: Eurobarometer Survey Series
description: face-to-face interview
					The text of the British questionnaire was used in
constructing the codebook.In order to produce samples more
representative of the French, Dutch, British, and Danish populations,
a national weight variable was constructed for those nations.
description: Citizens of the EC aged 15 and over residing in Belgium,
Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,
and the Netherlands.
				   		Smallest Geographic Unit: country