DOI: 10.3886/icpsr34715.v1
title: Transatlantic Trends Survey, 2012
title: Version 1

description: The aim of the Transatlantic Trends Survey 2012 was to identify the attitudes of the public in the United States, Russia and 13 European countries towards foreign policy issues and transatlantic issues. The Transatlantic Trends Survey is a continuation of the Worldviews 2002 survey undertaken by the German Marshall Fund and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. It is also part of the annual Transatlantic Trends Survey series undertaken by the German Marshall Fund and the Compagnia di San Paolo from 2003 to 2011. The 2012 survey queried respondents on topics such as whether the United States, the European Union, and Russia exert strong leadership in world affairs, opinions on certain countries or organizations and their relationships and cooperation, attitudes toward Sweden joining NATO, and the rise of China. Opinions were also collected on past and future military interventions in Middle Eastern countries, government spending, attitudes towards the euro, economics, and confidence in certain institutions of Russia. Several questions solicited views on politics and voting habits, including assessments of the current president of the United States and the upcoming presidential election. Additionally other questions included political party attachment and left-right political self-placement as well as voting intentions. Demographic and other background information includes age, gender, race, religious affiliation, education, occupation, the number of people in the household, type of locality, and region of residence.
description: Please refer to the "Technical Information" section in the Original P.I. Codebook for further information about weighting.
description: Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (except in Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Russia where face-to-face interviews were conducted due to the low telephone penetration rate in these five countries). The basic sample design applied in all states is multi-stage random (probability). In each household, the respondent was drawn at random (following the "closest birthday rule"). Up to 5 call-backs for telephone interviews and 4 visits in total for face-to-face interviews were attempted before dropping a potential respondent.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Transatlantic Trends Survey, 2012
description: The adult population aged 18 years and over with access to a landline telephone in 15 countries: Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, the United States, Romania, Bulgaria, and Russia. In the United States, Italy, Spain and Portugal adults with mobile phones were also targeted. Smallest Geographic Unit: country
description: computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI); computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)The original data collection was carried out by TNS, Fait et Opinion - Brussels, on request of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.This data file is part of the Transatlantic Trends Series. The series starts with the Worldview Survey 2002 (together with CCFR) and continues with the Transatlantic Trend Survey 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, which are already released by ICPSR.The codebook and setup files for this collection contain characters with diacritical marks used in many European languages.Additional information on the Transatlantic Trends Survey is provided on the Transatlantic Trends Website.