DOI: 10.3886/icpsr06752.v1
title: Eurobarometer 44.3: Health Care Issues and Public Security, February-April 1996
title: Version 1

description: This round of Eurobarometer surveys focused on health
 issues, public security, awareness of consumer protection legislation,
 sickness benefits allocation, and attitudes toward the police. In
 addition, respondents were queried on a few standard Eurobarometer
 measures, such as whether they attempted to persuade others close to
 them to share their views on subjects they held strong opinions about
 and whether they discussed political matters, and how they viewed the
 need for societal change. Respondents provided information about their
 personal health care, including their general state of health, number
 of hospital stays, types of examinations received, and whether they
 had been on a diet, as well as their perceptions of heart
 disease. Respondents also answered questions about the health care
 system in their countries and indicated how well health care was run,
 to whom the government should provide health care, whether the
 government should spend more money on health care, and if they were
 willing to pay more taxes or have the government spend less on other
 things in order to contribute to health care. A number of questions
 concentrated on sickness benefits allocation. Questions concerning
 public security included how safe respondents felt walking alone near
 their homes, how often they had witnessed drug-related problems near
 their homes, if their homes had been broken into, and whether they had
 been attacked or seriously threatened. Respondents were also asked
 about their awareness of consumer protection legislation adopted or
 introduced by the European Union (EU) in areas such as import, postal
 services, toy safety, pricing, packaging, advertising, contracts,
 holiday conditions, and court proceedings. Opinions were also
 elicited on the police, type of contact respondents had with the
 police, and the cooperation between the police forces from EU member
 states. In addition, respondents answered a series of questions
 concerning their views on employment, unemployment, and gender
 equality. These data are reported in a separate collection,
 EUROBAROMETER 44.3OVR: EMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND GENDER EQUALITY,
 FEBRUARY-APRIL 1996 (ICPSR 2443). Demographic and other background
 information provided includes respondent's age, gender, nationality,
 marital status, left-right political self-placement, occupation, age
 at completion of education, household income, size of household, car
ownership, region of residence, and subjective size of community.
description: Multistage national probability samples.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Eurobarometer 44.3: Health Care Issues and Public Security, February-April 1996
description: Citizens of the EU aged 15 and over residing in the 15 EU 
 member countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, 
 Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, 
Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
description: (1) Three respondents (ICPSR CASE ID 15073, 15129, and
 15134) with non-EU nationalities were permitted to complete
 interviews. If desired, these cases can be excluded from
 analysis. (2) Caution should be exercised when using V54, V55, V56,
 V57, V58, and V59 (Q119A, Q119A recoded, Q119B, Q119B recoded, Q119C,
 and Q119C recoded). Inconsistencies have been found such that the
 number of nights spent in the hospital (Q119B and Q119C) is smaller
 than the number of different times spent overnight in a hospital
 (Q119A). Also, respondents who answered "don't know" to Q119A (code 99
 in V54 and code 10 in V55) should not have been asked Q119B and
 Q119C. ICPSR has recoded cases not following this protocol as
 follows: 
 ICPSR CASE ID 8763: Code 0 in V56 recoded to 997 (INAP),
 Code 8 in V57 recoded to 99 (INAP).
 ICPSR CASE ID 13724: Code 14 in V56 recoded to 997 (INAP),
 Code 7 in V57 recoded to 99 (INAP).
 ICPSR CASE ID 6286: Code 30 in V56 recoded to 997 (INAP),
 Code 7 in V57 recoded to 99 (INAP).
 ICPSR CASE ID 8634: Code 60 in V56 recoded to 997 (INAP),
 Code 7 in V57 recoded to 99 (INAP).
 ICPSR CASE ID 10704: Code 999 in V56 recoded to 997 (INAP),
 Code 10 in V57 recoded to 99 (INAP), Code 0 in V58
 recoded to 997 (INAP), Code 8 in V59 recoded to 99
 (INAP).
 (3) The complete questionnaire is being provided for both
 Eurobarometer 44.3 (ICPSR 6752) and Eurobarometer 44.3OVR (ICPSR
 2443). Response data, however, are divided between the two studies in
 the following manner. EB44.3: Q.1 to Q.4B, Q.5B, Q.111 to Q.155,
 demographic and protocol questions, and EB44.3OVR: Q.1 to Q.110,
 demographic and protocol questions. (4) The codebook is provided by
 ICPSR as an ASCII text file and as a Portable Document Format (PDF)
 file, and the data collection instrument is provided by ICPSR as a 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.