European Communities Studies 1973-1984: Cumulative File (ECS)

DESCRIPTION: This cumulative data collection contains 28 attitudinal and 22 demographic variables selected from the European Communities Study, 1973 and Euro-Barometers 3-21. The questions selected were asked in at least four surveys and, in many cases, were asked in nearly all of the 20 individual surveys. This allows the user to run cumulative or longitudinal analyses using the year of the survey as a variable. Some of the attitudinal variables are: the 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 provide information on respondent's views of nuclear power, income equality, terrorism, military defense and pollution. Three indices constructed by the principal investigators- cognitive mobilization, materialist/post-materialist values, and left/center/right vote are also included. Including the indices noted above, the European weight, and several I.D. variables, there is a total of 58 variables on 191,039 cases with a record length of 92.

ORIGINATING AGENCY / PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S):  Ronald Inglehart, Jacques-Rene Rabier, and Helene Riffault

RELATED WEB SITES:  
European Public Opinion (contains links to Euro-barometer data as well as some other interesting things).

PRI FACULTY, AFFILATES, AND STUDENTS:  This dataset is part of the Euro-barometer Survey Series.  If you are interested in other, more specific datasets you can do a search at ICPSR by typing in Euro-barometer in the search field.

DATA DISSEMINATED BY:  ICPSR