Eurobarometer 58.0 September-October 2002 ZA No. 3692
Services of General Interest, New Technologies, ICT, Health, Environment, and Public Safety
Special Topics:
- Services of general interest (telephone, electricity, gas, water, post, transport)
- New technologies: attitudes towards biotechnology (including genetic engineering)
- Information and communication technologies: computer / Internet usage and teleworking
- Sources of information about health (including Internet)
- Concern about environmental pollution, attitudes towards environment protection, and information on environment topics
- Public safety issues (including attitudes towards crime and crime prevention)
Documents and Data:
- Study description (including errata, version tracking, access to data and documents)
Archive variable report- Basic English Questionnaire
- Basic French Questionnaire
- Search Eurobarometer Codebooks / Questionnaires
- ZACAT online access (study and variable retrieval, data browsing, descriptive analysis, data download)
Remarks:
- Original data set edition provided by EORG
- No standard trend questions
- Swiss data on the 'Biotechnology' module are available in the framework of EBCH 2002 (online access to integrated datasets EU+Switzerland via FORS online data catalogue).
- Candidate Countries data on the 'Services of general interest' module are available in the context of Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.3 (ZA3984).
- Current archive dataset version / update: v1.0.1 (2012)
Publications:
- Eurobarometre 58 - Edition Speciale: L'opinion des consommateurs sur les services d'interet general. Rapport rédigé par The European Opinion Research Group (EORG) pour la Commission européenne, Direction Générale "Santé et Protection des Consommateurs".
[Summary: Consumers' Opinions on Services of General Interest]
[Zusammenfassung: Die Meinung der Verbraucher über die Dienstleistungen der Daseinsvorsorge] - European Commission, Directorate-General Health and Consumer Protection: European Consumers and services of general interest. Brussel, December 2003. (Qualitative study)
- Eurobarometer 58.0: The attitudes of Europeans towards the envorinment. Written by: The European Opinion Research Group (EORG) for Directorate General Environment. December 2002. [also available in French]
- Gaskell, George; Allum, Nick; Stares, Sally: Europeans and Biotechnology in 2002. Eurobarometer 58.0. A report to the EC Directorate General for Research from the project 'Life Sciences in European Society'. March 21st 2003 (2nd edition).
- George Gaskell, Toby Ten Eyck, Jonathan Jackson and Giuseppe Veltri: Europe and the United States. Imagining nanotechnology: cultural support for technological innovation. In Public Understanding of Science 2005 14: 81 [http://pus.sagepub.com/content/14/1/81]
- Spadaro, Rosario (The European Opinion Research Group): Eurobarometer 58.0. European Union citizens and sources of information about health. Written for Directorate General SANCO. March 2003.
- European Opinion Research Group (EORG): Public Safety, Exposure to Drug-related Problems and Crime, Public Opinion Survey. Report prepared for the European Commission. Brussels, May 2003. [summary] [tables]
- Jörg Dittmann: Kriminalitätsfurcht sinkt in Deutschland entgegen dem EU-Trend. Zur Wahrnehmung und Bewertung der Kriminalität. In: Informationsdienst Soziale Indikatoren (ZUMA Publikation), Ausgabe 34, Juli 2005 (ISI 34), p. 6-9.
- Spadaro, Rosario (The European Opinion Research Group): Eurobarometer 58.0. Les européens et les technologies de l'infiormation et de la communication dans le cadre de l'emploi. Gere et organise par La Direction Générale Presse et Communication- secteur Opinion Publique. Automne 2002.
Sample size | Fieldwork dates | Field-Questionnaires | |
| France | 1004 | 02 Sep 02 - 24 Sep 02 | FR |
| Belgium | 1074 | 02 Sep 02 - 04 Oct 02 | |
| Netherlands | 998 | 01 Sep 02 - 02 Oct 02 | NL |
| Germany (West) | 1036 | 01 Sep 02 - 19 Sep 02 | DE_W |
| Italy | 992 | 05 Sep 02 - 30 Sep 02 | IT |
| Luxembourg | 599 | 04 Sep 02 - 30 Sep 02 | LU_LU / LU_FR |
| Denmark | 1000 | 01 Sep 02 - 04 Oct 02 | DK |
| Ireland | 999 | 03 Sep 02 - 30 Sep 02 | IE |
| Great Britain | 1014 | 02 Sep 02 - 04 Oct 02 | GB |
| Northern Ireland | 306 | 04 Sep 02 - 23 Sep 02 | GB_NI |
| Greece | 1001 | 02 Sep 02 - 02 Oct 02 | GR |
| Spain | 1000 | 03 Sep 02 - 04 Oct 02 | ES |
| Portugal | 1000 | 03 Sep 02 - 29 Sep 02 | PT |
| Germany (East) | 1009 | 01 Sep 02 - 18 Sep 02 | DE_E |
| NO | |||
| Finland | 1000 | 02 Sep 02 - 01 Oct 02 | FI_FI / FI_SE |
| Sweden | 1000 | 01 Sep 02 - 07 Oct 02 | SE |
| Austria | 1008 | 03 Sep 02 - 25 Sep 02 | AT |
| Norway | 1001 | 01 Sep 02 - 16 Oct 02 | NO |
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