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Standard and Special Topic Eurobarometer
The European Commission's Survey Series
- The Standard Eurobarometer survey series is a unique program of cross-national and cross-temporal
comparative social research.
- Since the early seventies representative national samples in all European Union, formerly European Community
member states are simultaneously interviewed in each spring and each autumn. Separately
drawn for Northern Ireland, East Germany and the
Turkish Cypriote Community (TCC).
- The Eurobarometer series is designed to provide
regular monitoring of
the social and political attitudes in the European Union publics
through specific
trend
questions.
- Starting with Eurobarometer 34 (1990) separate
supplementary surveys on
special topics have been conducted under almost
each Eurobarometer number.
- The Eurobarometer public opinion
surveys are conducted on behalf of the European
Commission which regularly publishes the main
results in official survey reports.
The Archive Products
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Standard Eurobarometer data are made available for social science research purposes by the
Social Science
Data Archives.
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The data received from the principal
investigator are checked and formatted in accordance with archival standards since the
very beginning by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR),
since the early nineties in close cooperation with the Zentralarchiv (GESIS-ZA).
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The data are comprehensively documented on
study and variable level and successively
published for online access via
ZACAT.
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Recent data sets are made available
on
request, after basic inspection and
if
released by the Commission.
Easy access to basic information and documentation
is continuously provided through the
study
profiles.
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A
question data base offers an integrated free text
retrieval across all Eurobarometer codebooks or
basic questionnaires.
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The Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File
integrates selected standard trend variables across space
and time.
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Eurobarometer related publications are
documented and partly also available at the ZA library.
© GESIS Meinhard Moschner
10.03.2008
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