DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04140
title: Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2002.3, October-November 2002: New Europeans and Agriculture
title: Archival Version

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 16 and
 November 17, 2002, in the 13 candidate countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus,
 Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland,
 Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. Respondents were queried on
 whether the EU should use its agricultural policy to ensure stable and
 adequate incomes for farmers, help farmers to adapt their production
 to consumers' expectations, favor and improve life in the countryside,
 reduce development disparities between regions, favor methods of
 organic production, promote respect for the environment, protect
 medium- or small-sized farms, or ensure that agricultural products
 were healthy and safe. Additional questions elicited respondents'
 feelings toward the EU subsidizing fewer agricultural products in
 favor of providing more funds for the protection and development of
 the overall rural economy. Respondents were asked if they had heard
 about the "Common Agricultural Policy," and if they felt the
 agricultural policy of the European Union would favor farmers,
 consumers, the environment in the countryside, or the food-processing
 industry. Respondents were also asked what they expected the impact
 would be on their farms if their country joined the EU. Demographic
 variables include sex, age, nationality, marital status, level of
 education, current occupation, income, whether the respondent lived in
 a rural area or village, small- or middle-sized town, or large town,
religious affiliation, and voting intent.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2002.3, October-November 2002: New Europeans and Agriculture
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 aged 14 and over living on the
southern part of the island.
description: (1) The files included with the first release of this
 collection derive from the data producer, Gallup Organization Hungary
 (Magyar Gallup Intezet). (2) The documentation (codebook and SPSS data
 definition statements) for this collection contains characters with
 diacritical marks used in many European languages. (3) The
 questionnaire located in the codebook was also used for CANDIDATE
 COUNTRIES EUROBAROMETER 2002.3, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2002: SCIENCE AND
 TECHNOLOGY (ICPSR 4139). Questions Q.A1-Q.A5 correspond to the New
 Europeans and Agriculture component only. (4) The codebook is
 provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. 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.