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Description & Citation--Study No. 8434

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:8434
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08434
 
Title:European Communities Studies, 1973-1984: Cumulative File
 
Principal Investigator(s):Ronald Inglehart
 
  Jacques-Rene Rabier
 
  Helene Riffault
 
Series:Eurobarometer Survey Series
 
Funding Agency:Commission of the European Community, and the National Science Foundation.
 
Grant Number:NSF: SES 8208333
 
Bibliographic Citation:Inglehart, Ronald, Jacques-Rene Rabier, and Helene Riffault. EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES STUDIES, 1973-1984: CUMULATIVE FILE [Computer file]. Conducted by Faits et Opinions, Paris. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 198?. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08434
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection contains cumulative attitudinal and demographic variables, in comparable form, selected from EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES STUDIES, 1973 (ICPSR 7330) and EURO-BAROMETER 3 through EURO-BAROMETER 21 (ICPSR 7416, 7417, 7418, 7511, 7512, 7604, 7727, 7728, 7752, 7778, 7957, 7958, 7959, 9022, 9023, 9057, 8152, 8234, and 8263). The questions selected were asked in at least four surveys and in many cases were asked in nearly all of the 20 individual surveys. This allows the user to run cumulative or longitudinal analyses using the year of the survey as a variable. Some of the attitudinal variables selected from the individual studies are: the respondent's overall life satisfaction, amount of social change desired, left/right political orientation, support of the Common Market, strength of religious attachment, and the political party for which the respondent would vote. Other variables provide information on respondents' views toward nuclear power, income equality, terrorism, military defense, and pollution. Cumulative demographic information includes age, sex, marital status, household composition, occupation, religion, income quartiles, age at which the respondent left school, town size, and region. Three indices constructed by the principal investigators -- cognitive mobilization, materialist/post-materialist values, and left/center/right vote -- are also included. The surveys were conducted on representative samples of respondents who were interviewed in the ten nations of the EC: Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Greece.
 
Subject Term(s):developing nations, economic integration, energy policy, European Economic Community, European Parliament, European unification, European Union, foreign aid, income distribution, life satisfaction, military strength, national interests, nuclear energy, political attitudes, political participation, political party preference, pollution, public opinion, quality of life, religious beliefs, social attitudes, terrorism, voter preferences
 
Geographic Coverage:Belgium, Denmark, Europe, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Global
 
Time Period:1973 - 1984
 
Date(s) of Collection:1973 - 1984
 
Universe:Citizens of the EC aged 15 and over residing in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
 
Data Type:survey data
 

Methodology

Sample:The sampling designs were either multistage national probability samples or national stratified quota samples.
 
Data Source:personal interviews
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1985-10-09
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Main Data
  • DS2: Codebook Appendix
 

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