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ICPSR resources
Featuring the Eurobarometer Surveys and
World Value Surveys available from ICPSR
Links to these resources can be found at:
http://www.lawrence.edu/fac/isaacsok/mitc-icpsr.html
Overview
Standard Eurobarometer (1970-73,
1974 ff.)
 Flash Eurobarometer (1991 ff.)
 Central and Eastern Eurobarometer
(1990-1997)
 Candidate Countries Eurobarometer
(2001 ff.)
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Standard Eurobarometer (a.k.a. Euro-Barometer)
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Biannual face-to-face interviews
EC/EU member countries 1970-1973, 1974 ff.
Standard sample size – 1000
Attitudes towards the European unification,
European Union institutions and European
policies
Socio-cultural and socio-political orientations
such as quality of life, cultural identity, political
attitudes and participation
Standard EB - Special Topics
supplementary surveys since 1990:
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Agriculture, biotechnology, energy,
environment, European elections, gender roles,
health related issues, immigration and
xenophobia, new information society issues,
poverty and social exclusion, regional identity,
science and technology, urban traffic, working
conditions, youth and elderly studies…
Flash Eurobarometer
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Telephone interviews
EU member countries
Standard sample size = 500
Reduced demography
Ad-hoc surveys on current affairs (1991 ff.)
Monthly monitor series (1994-1995)
Special target group surveys (managers)
Topical series (euro, internet, etc.)
Central and Eastern
Eurobarometer (CEEB)
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Annual face-to-face interviews 1990-1997
Up to 20 countries of the region
Standard sample size = 1000
Monitoring economic and political changes
Attitudes towards Europe and the European
Union
Applicant countries EB since October 2001
(also referred to as “candidate countries” EB
Eurobarometer Data Service
http://www.gesis.org/en/data_service/
eurobarometer/guide/
 Series description
 Principal investigators
 Participating countries
 Fieldwork procedures (sampling,
interviews)
 Weighting information
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Eurobarometer Data Service – identifying relevant
topics and related surveys
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Cultural and national identity
International relations
Living conditions
Political attitudes, participation…
Cultural identity
Education
Family
Gender roles
Leisure
Public health
NESSTAR
Networked Social Science Tools and Resources
http://www.nesstar.org/
 Browsing, identifying data
 Must install client on pc and register to
use
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World Values Surveys
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worldwide investigation of sociocultural and
political change
builds on the European Values Surveys, first
carried out in 1981
Second wave 1990-1991
third wave was carried out in 1995-1996
fourth wave is taking place in 1999-2001
World Values Surveys (WVS)
hundreds of publications in more than
a dozen languages
 Subsets used in textbooks and
computer programs
 grew out of a study launched by the
European Values Survey group (EVS)
 Original motivation said to be study of
decline of church attendance
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World Values Surveys
More historical information at
http://wvs.isr.umich.edu/index.html
 Overview in figures
http://wvs.isr.umich.edu/wvs-fig.html
 Countries included 1995-1998 & sampling
information:
http://wvs.isr.umich.edu/wvs-samp.html
 More countries added for current survey
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Data from ICPSR
Two-year embargo while PIs report on
the results
 2000-2001 questionnaire available at
http://wvs.isr.umich.edu/wvssamp.html
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WVS – more countries
Country index, 2000 survey
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.com/sta
tistics/index.html
 Data file from 2001 survey will be
available from ICPSR in April 2004
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