Eurobarometer 49     April-May 1998     GESIS-ZA No.  3052

Food Product Safety, Child Sex Tourism, Health Care, and Cancer

Special Topics:

• Information about the EU and the Common Currency see related Publication
• Attitudes towards the EU enlargement
• The role of the European Parliament
• Political interest and organizational membership
• The image of the Basque country
• Safety and labeling of food products  see related Publication
• Attitudes towards health care systems
• The prevention of cancer (with special regard to women and men)
• Awareness of and attitudes towards sex tourism  see related Publication

Documents:

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

Remarks:

• Last update: 26.09.2003 (1st GESIS-ZA codebook edition)
• Errata

Publications:

• European Commission: EUROBAROMETER 49. Public Opinion in the European Community. Brussels, September 1998.
•   European Commission: European Public Opinion on the Single Currency - special edition 1/1999 (including results from Continuous Tracking Surveys)
•   INRA (Europe) pour la Commission Européenne, Direction Générale XXIV: La securite des produits alimentaires. Bruxelles, septembre 1998.
•   INRA (Europe) for the European Commission, Directorate General XXIII: Europeans and their views on child sex tourism. Brussels, July 1998 (also available in french).

	Sample size	Fieldwork dates	Field-Questionnaires
France	1045	10 Apr 98 - 30 Apr 98	FR
Belgium	1007	10 Apr 98 - 04 May 98	BE_NL / BE_FR
Netherlands	1031	10 Apr 98 - 18 May 98	NL
Germany (West)	1005	09 Apr 98 - 03 May 98	DE_W
Italy	1000	15 Apr 98 - 30 Apr 98	IT
Luxembourg	606	07 Apr 98 - 16 May 98	LU_LU / LU_FR
Denmark	1000	18 Apr 98 - 26 May 98	DK
Ireland	1000	10 Apr 98 - 04 May 98	IE
Great Britain	1055	07 Apr 98 - 04 May 98	GB
Northern Ireland	311	16 Apr 98 - 03 May 98	GB_NI
Greece	1013	08 Apr 98 - 04 May 98	GR
Spain	1000	14 Apr 98 - 30 Apr 98	ES
Portugal	1000	14 Apr 98 - 05 May 98	PT
Germany (East)	1007	09 Apr 98 - 03 May 98	DE_E
Finland	1044	09 Apr 98 - 13 May 98	FI_FI / FI_SE
Sweden	1025	15 Apr 98 - 27 May 98	SE
Austria	1016	10 Apr 98 - 04 May 98	AT
Questionnaire Copyright and Acknowledgements

Errata:

• D1 (LEFT-RIGHT-PLACEMENT): The harmonised variable D.1R2 (V553) is not correct. For some countries responses to be coded '1' (LEFT) are coded '4' (DK/NA). Please recode in accordance with the basic variable D.1 (V551). [ZA, 22.06.05] 

• 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)        

• VOTE INTENTION (D4) categories for Denmark are shifted in the original INRA codebook and SPSS data set. : Category '8' should be "Venstre" instead of "Demokratisk Fornyels" (not asked in EB 49), category '9' should be "Fremskridtspartiet" instead of "Venstre" and category '10' "Enhedslisten - De Rod-Gronne" instead of "Fremskridtspartiet". Accordingly the correct frequencies for Denmark are as follows:           

  	Value Label	Value	Frequency (unweighted)
  	Socialdemokratiet	1	300
  	Radikale Venstre	2	56
  	Konservative Folkepa	3	65
  	Centrum Demokraterne	4	28
  	Socialistisk Folkepa	5	103
  	Dansk Folkeparti	6	38
  	Kristeligt Folkepart	7	21
  	VENSTRE	8	222
  	FREMSKRIDTSPARTIET	9	6
  	ENHEDSLISTEN - DE RO	10	26
  	OTHER PARTY	12	3
  	WOULD VOTE BLANK / WOU	13	14
  	WOULD NOT VOTE	14	5
  	DK	15	73
  	NO ANSWER	16	40

  SPSS data sets delivered by GESIS-ZA after November 30, 2000 have been corrected. Nevertheless categories '12' to '16' are not well documented; these data should only be used with caution.