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Standard EB variable reports / questionnaires include the variable reports (codebooks) or, if variable reports are not yet available, the basic questionnaires for ALL Standard & Special Eurobarometer and its predecessors. All documents are in English language.
Standard EB basic questionnaires includes all basic (bilingual) questionnaires for Standard & Special Eurobarometer starting with survey 19/1983.
Central and Eastern Eurobarometer codebooks in English language
Candidate Countries Eurobarometer basic questionnaires in English language
FLASH Eurobarometer basic questionnaires in English language
ISSP codebooks can also be included in the search

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On request of the European Commission the questions for surveys or modules under embargo are not included.
Please note that the frequencies in the Eurobarometer variable reports (unlike former codebooks) are based on weighted data, if and as indicated for each individual table.
The original collectors of the data and the codebook producers (ICPSR, ZA, SSD) bear no responsibility for the interpretation of the data.
Eurobarometer questionnaires are reproduced with the licence granted by the European Commission, DG Information, Communication, Culture and Audiovisual Media, 200 rue da le Loi, B-1049 Brussels (© European Communities).
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