Eurobarometer Data Service Overview

The Eurobarometer data service website attempts to offer value added services for the social sciences, researchers or students, interested in finding out about the potentials of and the access to the primary data generated over four decades through this large scale European wide survey program. It is set up as a compendium-type microsite in order to provide an broad overview of available information, materials, retrieval facilities and ways to access the data. For general data archive information you will be directed to the main GESIS website, whenever appropriate.

The main chapters in the headline tab navigation are organized as follows:

• Survey Series introduction, a brief view on history (principal investigators), and detailed study information for the different series:
  
  • Standard & Special Eurobarometer
  • Central & EasternEurobarometer
  • Candidate Countries Eurobarometer
  • Flash Eurobarometer
    
• Topics & Trends are documented systematically for easy identification and evaluation of main contents
• Question Retrieval provides two options:
  
  • Full text search in questionnaires and variable reports (codebooks) using flexible command base queries (QBase)
  • Well targeted field search for variables using the advanced search functionality of the ZACAT data portal
• Data Access via free online download is available for everybody interested in re-using Eurobarometer primary data for statistical analyses in research or training
• Contacts to the all involved institutions are specified, complemented by the opportunity to subscribe to the Eurobarometer mailing list

The FAQ guide picks up questions frequently asked by users who are new to this site. 

Relevant external context information is referenced here:

• Publications related to Eurobarometer data, in particular bibliographic references to publications based on their re-analysis, can be retrieved from the GESIS library catalog; feedback on the use of archive resources for publications is encouraged
• Weblinks to other WWW resources providing context information on country or EU level, helping to understand or to interpret Eurobarometer results