Central and Eastern Eurobarometer 1990-1997

The Central and Eastern Eurobarometer survey series has been carried out on behalf of the European Commission (DG X) between 1990 and 1997 under the direction of Karlheinz Reif (until 1995) and George Cunningham, in total eight surveys. Once a year the CEEB surveys have been monitoring economic and political changes, and attitudes towards Europe and the European Union in up to 20 countries of the region.

The regular CEEB sample size is about 1000 respondents (i.e. realised interviews) per country. The samples are drawn among the citizens of the respective country, of 15 years and over. Respondents are interviewed face-to-face, in their private residences. Starting with Central and Eastern Eurobarometer 2 a multi-stage random probability sample design has been applied for all countries (except Hungary which adopted a quota sampling technique for survey 2). Starting with CEEB 5 (1994) the fieldwork and data integration was coordinated by GfK EUROPE Ad hoc Research together with regional partners, thereby replacing GALLUP UK.

The raw data are made available for social science research purposes by the ZA data service in SPSS format. In addition a cumulative trend file Central and Eastern Eurobarometer 1990-1997: Trends CEEB 1-8 is available, together with the ZA CodebookExplorer tool for structured navigation in variable documentation and data (CD-ROM).

• Surveys and main topics - study descriptions, codebooks, reports
• Participating countries and sample sizes 
• Weighting overview  - available weight variables
• ZACAT - online retrieval, study and variable description, data exploration and download