The following chronological overview1 of cross-national comparative survey projects focuses on sample surveys among individuals or (private) households framing total (adult) national populations. Studies aiming at subpopulations or target groups are not considered, except selected prominent and particularly relevant studies based on large subpopulations such as working or elderly populations (e.g. the European Working Conditions Surveys EWCS, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe SHARE or the ECFIN Business and Consumer Surveys). The overview is sorted by data starting point (survey period) and provides references to relevant websites as well as basic backround information on geographic coverage (ISO alpha-2 country codes), time period and method (cross-section, repeated cross-section, panel), sampling methodology and survey mode, principal investigators, main topics, micro data access, etc.
An alphabetical index by date, regional coverage and general topic (17.98 kB) provides a condensed overview of all surveys projects refenced below [last update: 2015-10-27].
For most recent up-date information about ongoing programmes you should always consult the respective project website.
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Other websites and services support the discovery of international data resources with focus on other data types:
- International data resources (ICPSR)
- Survey of International Social Surveys (ISSC)
- MacroDataGuide international (NSD)
- International Macrodata (UK-DA)
- Access to official microdata (GESIS)
- European Microdata (EUROSTAT)
- European Microdata (GESIS)
- GESIS EUROLAB - links to data, institutions and context information
- ESS multilevel data - macrodata on country and NUTS level
- Democracy Barometer and related data sources and indices (WZB)
- Cross-National Time Series Data Archive - data for some 250 country units (1815-2013)
1948-1949 | How Nations see Each Other |
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1955-1969 | USIA - International Relations USIA XX Surveys |
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1956-1991 | International stratification, mobility and politics file - ISMP |
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1957-1963 | Pattern of Human Concerns Data |
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1959/1960 | Civic Culture Study |
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1962 | Attitudes towards Europe |
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1963-1972 | Survey Series: Political Participation - An International Social Science Council (ISSC) Workbook in Comparative Analysis |
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1965/1966 | Multinational Time Budget Study |
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1966-1971 | Political Participation and Equality in Seven Nations |
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1967-1970 | Images of the World in the Year 2000 |
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1969&1990 | Reader’s Digest EURODATA - The Reader’s Digest Survey of Europe Today |
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1970/1974ff. | European Communities Study (ECS) / Standard (and Special) Eurobarometer (EB) |
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1972 | Scandinavian Welfare Survey |
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1972 | USIA World Survey 5-B (Post-China-Visit-Study) |
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1973/1981 | Political Action I/II |
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1980-1987 | Comparative Project on Class Structure and Class Consciousness |
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1981ff. | European Values Study (EVS) - World Values Survey (WVS) |
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1985ff. | International Social Survey Program (ISSP) |
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1985 | The Political Culture of Southern Europe: A Four Nation Study (PCSE) |
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1989-2005 | Free Elections, Political Parties and the Emergence of Competitive Party Systems in Eastern Europe / Founding Elections in Eastern Europe |
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1990-2001 | Post Communist Publics (PCP) |
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1990-1992 | New Soviet Citizen Surveys |
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1990ff. | Comparative National Elections Project |
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1990-1997 | Survey Series: Central and Eastern Eurobarometer |
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1991ff. | Flash Eurobarometer |
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1991&1996 | International Social Justice Project (ISJP) |
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1991ff. | New Europe Barometer |
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1991 | The Pulse of Europe |
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1991&2000 | Population Policy Acceptance Study, PPAS |
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1991-2003 | Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) |
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1993/1994 | Values and Political Change in Post-Communist Europe |
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1993/1994 | Social Stratification in Eastern Europe since 1989 |
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1993/1995 | The Transformation Process in Hungary, Poland, in the Czech and Slovak Republic |
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1994-2001 | The European Community Household Panel (ECHP) |
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1994&1999 | NORBALT I and II Living Conditions in the Baltic Countries |
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1994-2008 | International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) / Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (ALL) |
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1994 | East Asia Barometer (EABS) - A Comparative Survey of Democratization and Value Change in East Asia |
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1995 | Social Consequences of Transition |
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1996-1998 | Coping with Government in the FSU/ECE - Former Soviet Union / Economic Commission for Europe |
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1996/1997 | Survey Series: East Asian Social Survey 1997 |
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1997&2007 | New Departures: Religion and Attitudes toward Church in Eastern (Central) Europe - International Research on Religion and Attitudes toward Church |
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1997-2000 | Transition Barometer |
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1999ff. | Harmonized European Time Use Survey (HETUS) |
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1999/2009/2016 | People on war |
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1999-2003 | Eurobarometers in Switzerland |
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2000 | EU Accession Opinion Survey |
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2000 | Asia Europe Survey: A Multinational Comparative Study in 18 Countries (ASES) |
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2001ff. | Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) |
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2001- | Survey Series: Global Barometer Surveys (GBS) |
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2001-2004 | Candidate Countries Eurobarometer |
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2001-2002 & 2003-2006 | EU Index |
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2001&2002 | Political Culture in Central and Eastern Europe (PCE) / Political Culture and Democratic Values in New Democracies (PCND) |
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2001&2002 | E-LIVING: Life in Digital Europe |
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2002ff. | European Social Survey |
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2002ff. | Transatlantic Trend Survey TTS (Worldviews) |
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2002/2004 | East Asia Value Survey |
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2003ff. | The Voice of the People |
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2004ff. | Americas Barometer |
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2004/2005 | European Internal Movers Social Survey - PIONEUR |
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2005ff. | European Crime and Safety Survey (EU ICS) |
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2006/2010/2016 | Life in Transition Survey (LITS) |
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2006ff. | Caucasus Barometer (formerly the CRRC's annual Data Initiative) |
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2006/2007 | The Surveillance Project, 2006 - An International Survey on Privacy and Surveillance |
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2007&2009 | INTUNE - Integrated and United? A Quest for Citizenship in an Ever Closer Europe |
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2008-2018 & 2018- | Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) |
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2011-2014 | Crossing Borders Making Europe - EUCROSS |
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1 This overview was originally developed to complement "The SAGE Handbook of Public Opinion Research", edited by Wolfgang Donsbach and Michael W. Traugott. It represents a compilation from survey project web sites, social science data archive information resources and data catalogues, namely from the infrastructure network web resources provided by the Network of Economic and Social Science Infrastructures in Europe (NESSIE) and the International Federation of Data Archive organizations for the Social Sciences (IFDO). See also: Ekkehard Mochmann: International Social Science Data Service Scope and Accessibility. Report for the International Social Science Council (ISSC). Cologne, 2002.
All information under reserve with respect to completeness, details, ongoing developments, or migration of internet resources. Comments, corrections, addenda and proposals for new entries are always appreciated (E-Mail to fdz_intumfragen(at)gesis(dot)org).
Last update: 2019-04-08