Eurobarometer 46.1     October-November 1996     ZA No.  2899

Modern Biotechnology, Privacy on Computer Networks, and the Common European Currency

Special Topics:

• New Technologies: attitudes towards biotechnology see Press Release see related Publication
• Next general elections issues
• The European Currency
• Information technology use and data privacy see related Publication

Documents:

• Study Description 
•   Standard codebook
•   Basic English Questionnaire
•   Basic French Questionnaire
• Search in Eurobarometer Codebooks / Questionnaires

Remarks:

• Questions on attitudes towards the Single European Currency (Q.23 to Q.42) are repeated from Eurobarometer 46.0 (Q.24 to Q.43) and should be analyzed in combination.
• Conducted not long after Eurobarometer 46.1 the United States Biotechnology Study (Jon D. Miller, 1997-1998) posed some questions similar to those asked of European respondents (ICPSR Study 3030). 
• Errata 
• Last update: October 2000 (first release of the codebook edition) 

Publications:

• European Commission, Directorate General XII: The Europeans and modern biotechnology. Brussels, 1997 (also available in french).
•   INRA (Europe) for the European Commission, Directorate General "Internal Market and finacial services": Information Technology and Data Privacy. Brussels, January 1997.

	Sample size	Fieldwork dates	Field-Questionnaires
France	1003	26 Oct 96 - 17 Nov 96	FR
Belgium	1006	04 Nov 96 - 17 Nov 96	BE_NL / BE_FR
Netherlands	1070	28 Oct 96 - 19 Nov 96	NL
Germany (West)	1024	25 Oct 96 - 14 Nov 96	DE_W
Italy	1059	03 Nov 96 - 15 Nov 96	IT
Luxembourg	610	18 Oct 96 - 17 Nov 96	LU_LU / LU_FR
Denmark	1000	01 Nov 96 - 19 Nov 96	DK
Ireland	1003	30 Oct 96 - 20 Nov 96	IE
Great Britain	1067	24 Oct 96 - 15 Nov 96	GB
Northern Ireland	324	03 Nov 96 - 17 Nov 96	GB_NI
Greece	1012	01 Nov 96 - 14 Nov 96	GR
Spain	1000	04 Nov 96 - 17 Nov 96	ES
Portugal	1003	30 Oct 96 - 14 Nov 96	PT
Germany (East)	1008	20 Oct 96 - 17 Nov 96	DE_E
Norway	966	18 Nov 96 - 16 Dec 96	NO
Finland	1040	01 Nov 96 - 19 Nov 96	FI_FI / FI_SE
Sweden	1008	02 Nov 96 - 22 Nov 96	SE
Austria	1009	04 Nov 96 - 17 Nov 96	AT
Questionnaire Copyright and Acknowledgements

Errata:

• Starting with Eurobarometer 34 and up to survey 61, NUTS 1 level data (REGION II) for the NETHERLANDS are not (re-)coded
  in accordance with the official EUROSTAT nomenclature of territorial unit statistics. The NUTS 2 level province ZEELAND should be
  coded as belonging to NUTS 1 region (landsdel) WEST instead of SOUTH Netherlands. (GESIS-ZA editions will be corrected from EB 53 onwards, November 11, 2005)