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 
• Next general elections issues
• The European Currency
• Information technology use and data privacy 

Documents and Data:

• Study Description (including version information, errata reporting, variable information, access to questionnaires and data download)
• Archive variable report
• Basic English Questionnaire
• Basic French Questionnaire 

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).
• The parallel survey conducted in NORWAY is not part of the official Eurobarometer 46.1.
• Current archive dataset version / update: v1.1.0 (2012)

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.