Euro-barometer 22
Subtitle: energy problems and the Atlantic Alliance, October 1984
By: principal investigators, Jacques-René Rabier, Hélène Riffault and Ronald Inglehart
Series: ICPSR -- 8364; The Euro-barometer survey series; ICPSR (Series) -- 8364
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file]
Subjects: Public opinion; Energy policy; Energy conservation; European Economic Community
Other titles: Energy problems and the Atlantic alliance, October 1984.
Description: The dataset contains information on European integration, life satisfaction, and social goals, as well as respondent attitudes toward the June 1984 elections to the European Parliament and voting behavior in those elections. Respondents were also questioned extensively on energy-related issues, including such areas as reliability of other nations as suppliers of fuel, the ability of their own countries to meet their energy needs now and in the future, possible government action to meet those needs, opinions on alternative sources of energy, and the respondents' own patterns of energy consumption.
Notes: These surveys are the fruit of a unique program of cross-national and cross-temporal social science research. The effort began in early 1970, when the Commission of the European Communities sponsored simultaneous surveys of the publics of the European Community. These surveys were designed to measure public awareness of, and attitudes toward, the Common Market and other European Community institutions, in complementary fashion. They also probed into the goals given top priority for each respondent's own nation. These concerns have remained a central part of the European Community's research efforts--which were carried forward with another six-nation survey in the summer of 1971 that gave special attention to agricultural problems. These themes were of central interest again in a survey of the publics of the European Community countries--now nine in number--carried out in September, 1973. At this point the surveys took on a somewhat broader scope in content as well as in geographical coverage, with measures of subjective satisfaction and the perceived quality of life becoming a standard features of the European Community public opinion surveys.

In 1974, the Commission of the European Communities launched the Euro-Barometer series of the surveys, designed to provide a regular monitoring of the social and political attitudes of the publics of the nine member-nations, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, and Luxembourg. These Euro-Barometers are carried out in the spring and fall of each year. In addition to obtaining regular readings of support for European integration and the perceived quality of life, each of the Euro-Barometers has explored a variety of special topics. Attitudes toward the organization and role of the European Parliament have also been explored in each Euro-Barometer beginning with number 7 in the spring of 1977. Starting with Euro-Barometer 14, Greece joined the other nine countries in which these surveys are carried out. This entire series of public opinion surveys has been administered under the direction of Jacques-Rene Rabier, Special Advisor to the Commission of the European Communities. Helene Riffault, of Faits et Opinions, was responsible for cross-national coordination of the fieldwork. Ronald Inglehart of The University of Michigan collaborated with them in design and analysis of the surveys, and in helping make the resulting data available to the social science community through ICPSR.

ICPSR data class: Class I.

Chronological coverage: 1984. Data collected: October-November 1984.

Personal interviews.

Survey data.

France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg.

OSIRIS and Card Image data format, with SPSS Control Cards for each.

Machine-readable documentation. Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 9,909 ; variable count: 191 ; LRECL: 233 ; records per case: 4.

The sampling designs were either multi-stage national probability samples or national stratified quota samples.

Universe: Representative samples of the total population of persons age fifteen years and older were drawn in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Greece.

Inglehart, Ronald. The silent revolution: changing values and political styles among western publics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.