The Eurobarometer survey series
Standard and Special Eurobarometer
The standard modules ask for attitudes towards European unification, institutions and policies, complemented by measurements for general socio-political orientations, as well as by respondent and household demographics.
Flash Eurobarometer
The Flash surveys include serials on special topics (Common Currency, EU Enlargement, Information Society, Entrepreneurship...) and special target group polls with emphasis on managers and enterprise related EU topics.
Publications
GESIS continuously maintains a Eurobarometer bibliography which collects studies that are based on Eurobarometer microdata. The Bibliography and further publications can be accessed here.
The Eurobarometer in the GESIS data catalogue
All Eurobarometer study descriptions can also be retrieved from the GESIS Data Catalogue.
The data catalogue entries (study descriptions) also provide access to all available documents (basic and field questionaires, variable reports...) and to the analysis datasets, including the errata and version description and history. Via the data catalogue entry datasets are persistantly referenced by a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
The Topics of the Eurobarometer survey series
The Eurobarometer surveys cover a wide range of topics which are described in the respective survey series sections of this microsite. Many of these topic modules are surveyed regularly, which allows trend analyses of these issues. The topics of the Standard and Special Eurobarometers for example cover 'Public Opinion in the European Union', 'European citizenship', 'Media use in the EU', 'Climate change', 'Gender-based violence', 'Discrimination in the European Union' or 'Fairness perceptions of the green transition'. An overview of these topics can be found here.
The Flash Eurobarometer surveys are also characterized by a wide variety of topics, for example 'Public opinion in the EU regions', 'EU's response to the energy challenges' or the 'News & Media Survey'. A special feature in this survey series are the surveys of companies, which cover the topics 'SMEs, resource efficiency and green markets', 'Businesses attitudes towards corruption in the EU' or 'SMEs and cybersecurity', for example. An overview of these topics is available here.
Embargo provisions
From the very beginning in the 1970ies the European Commission has been granting free access to Eurobarometer individual level data for secondary analysis in social science research and training. All primary data are made available through the social science data archive(s), once they are deposited, have passed the archive workflow and their release is confirmed.
By general rule, the standard module data and demographics are released whenever the full official Standard Report is published on the European Commission's Eurobarometer website. The data on special topics are released after the publication of the related full official Special Report. At latest and irrespective of the report publication, the data are expected to be released two years after fieldwork.
At present the following Eurobarometer questions are under embargo. The corresponding variables either have not been delivered to GESIS, or they were dropped from the datasets by the Eurobarometer Data Service before publication.
For detailed information on each individual Eurobarometer please see the Standard and Special Eurobarometer study overview.
ZA4744 - Eurobarometer 69.2 (March-May 2008)
- D2 Party attachment
Expected date of expiry: data not available (NOT PART OF THE EUROBAROMETER)
ZA5000 - Eurobarometer 73.1 (January-February 2010)
- D2 Party attachment
Expected date of expiry: indeterminate (NOT PART OF THE EUROBAROMETER)
ZA5928 - Eurobarometer 81.4 (May-June 2014)
- D2 Party attachment
- D3 Last vote in national parliamentary elections
Expected date of expiry: data not available (NOT PART OF THE EUROBAROMETER)
ZA6694 - Eurobarometer 85.2 (May 2016)
- D2 Party attachment
- D3 Last vote in national parliamentary elections
Expected date of expiry: data not available (NOT PART OF THE EUROBAROMETER)
ZA6788 - Eurobarometer 86.2 (November 2016)
- D2 Party attachment
- D3 Last vote in national parliamentary elections
Expected date of expiry: data not available (NOT PART OF THE EUROBAROMETER)
- European Election Studies
- EU Neighbourhood Barometer
- Swiss Eurobarometer (FORS Data Catalogue)