European Communities Studies, 1970-1992: Cumulative File

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Label

European Communities Studies, 1970-1992: Cumulative File

Creator

• Inglehart, Ronald
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Contributor

• Melich, Anna
• Reif, Karlheinz

Author

• Reif, Karlheinz
• Inglehart, Ronald
• Melich, Anna

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• energy policy
• foreign aid
• income distribution
• life satisfaction
• military strength
• national interests
• nuclear energy
• political attitudes
• political influence
• political participation
• political party preference
• European Economic Community
• public opinion
• quality of life
• religious beliefs
• social attitudes
• social change
• survey
• terrorism
• voter preferences
• pollution
• European Parliament
• European Union
• European unification
• attitudes
• economic integration

Genre

• survey

Summary

This data collection contains 36 attitudinal, 21 demographic, and 10 analysis variables selected from the European Communities Studies, 1970-1973, and Euro-Barometers 3-38. Question items chosen from the individual surveys for inclusion in the cumulative file have appeared in at least four different surveys. Most items, however, were included in nearly all of the studies carried out during the 22-year period from 1970 to 1992. Attitudinal variables selected from the individual studies include respondent's overall life satisfaction, amount of social change desired, left/right political orientation, support of the Common Market, strength of religious attachment, and the political party for which the respondent would vote. Other variables record respondents' opinions on topics such as the unification of Europe, elections to the European Parliament, nuclear power, income equality, terrorism, military defense, public ownership vs. private industry, and pollution. Three indices constructed by the principal investigators--cognitive mobilization, materialist/post-materialist values, and left/center/right vote--also are included. Demographic information supplied includes age, sex, marital status, household composition, occupation, religion, family income, age at which the respondent left school, town size, region, union membership of household members, size and supervision of the workplace, subjective social class, work sector, and housing source