Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2001-2004        

In October 2001, the European Commission has launched a new series of surveys in the 13 countries that are applying for European Union membership under the heading Candidate Eurobarometer (initially named Applicant Countries Eurobarometer or AC-EB), ordered and co-ordinated by the Directorate-General for Press and Communication (Public Opinion Analysis). The CC-EB surveys are carried out in Bulgaria, Republic of Cyprus (with an separate northern Cyprus survey parallel to 2002.2), Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. After a four years gap they are replacing  the former Central and Eastern Eurobarometer. A pilot survey was conducted for test purposes in Winter 1999/2000. After the EU enlargement in May 2004, the CC-EB series becomes part of the Standard Eurobarometer, intermittently also including the remaining candidates Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Croatia and Northern Cyprus.

Candidate Countries Eurobarometer gather information from the societies which are going to become members of the EU in a way that is comparable with the Standard Eurobarometer. Also the methodology used is almost identical to that of Standard Eurobarometer.

Every survey is carried out on national representative samples of around 1000 respondents (realised interviews) aged 15 and over in each country, except Malta and Cyprus, where the samples are of 500 respondents, using face-to-face interviewing at the respondents' home. The national samples reflect the structure of population aged 15+ in terms of gender, age, regions of a country, settlement size, education level, and marital status. In each of the 13 candidate countries, the surveys are carried out by national institutes associated with and coordinated by The Gallup Organisation, its Hungarian office in Budapest and GALLUP Europe in Brussels.

• CC-EB Study Profiles - basic tabular information on the single surveys and access to main documents including questionnaires and reports
• ZACAT - online retrieval, study and variable description, data exploration and download