Eurobarometer
The Eurobarometer is a public opinion poll in the countries of the EU commissioned at regular intervals by the European Commission . The same standard questions as well as changing questions on different topics are always asked. The first standard question survey was published in 1973. This representative survey by the EU Commission has been used since 1978 to monitor and develop opinion among the European population.
subjects
It examines central questions about social and political attitudes to central issues of the European Union, such as:
- the social situation
- the integration of minorities
- The Health
- the culture
- of information technology
- environmental protection
- the euro
- Military operations
- of European unification
- policies and institutions of the EU
method
For every six-monthly survey, around 1000 EU citizens aged 15 and over are surveyed per Member State, 2000 or 1500 in Germany (separated by old and new federal states), 600 in Luxembourg and 1300 in the United Kingdom, 300 of them in Northern Ireland. Since autumn 2004, TNS Infratest Sozialforschung GmbH has been conducting the Eurobarometer surveys in Germany as standard in spring and autumn. Special surveys can also be carried out for current topics.
criticism
Criticism is u. a. practiced on the type of data collection, especially on the question design. In general, it is critical to see if, as in the case of the Eurobarometer, the client (European Commission) is also the object of the survey. This can lead to a systematic directionality of questionnaires, to a strategic manipulation of a survey. For the Eurobarometer, this suspicion of manipulation was investigated in a 2012 study and also proven.
See also
Web links
- Website of the EU Commission on the results of the surveys (English, French)
- Access to Eurobarometer primary data and documentation via GESIS (formerly Central Archive for Empirical Social Research) (English)
- Infratest Eurobarometer surveys (German)
- Overview of international comparative survey programs since 1948 (brief information, websites, data access) (English)
- European values , Federal Agency for Civic Education, December 20, 2011. Database: Eurobarometer 6, 1st Values of Europeans , November 2008; Eurobarometer 74: Public Opinion in the European Union , February 2011
- Standard Eurobarometer (search mask, EU open data portal )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief information of the institute (PDF; 19 kB)
- ↑ Martin Höpner and Bojan Jurczyk: Critique of the Eurobarometer. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, accessed on August 7, 2016 (eng).