Research Catalog

Title

Euro-barometer 38.0 [electronic resource] : European Court of Justice, passive smoking, and consumer issues, September-October 1992.

Author

Reif, Karlheinz, 1943-

Publication

Ann Arbor, MI : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Melich, Anna.
• INRA Europe.
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Summary

This round of Euro-Barometer surveys focused on the current status and continuing development of the European Community (EC). Respondents were asked to choose which countries they believed should become part of the EC by the year 2000, to give their opinions on the imminent establishment of the Single European Market and the effectiveness of the European Parliament, and to indicate their knowledge and attitudes about the Maastricht Treaty and the proposed European Monetary Union. Participants in this Euro-Barometer also provided a detailed assessment of the operation of the European Court of Justice situated in Luxembourg. Respondents were asked whether they had a favorable impression of the Court, how important a part it played in the EC, how familiar they were with its activities, what role the Court should take on issues such as abortion, and how they viewed the relative importance of EC law versus the national laws of member countries. Respondents also furnished information concerning their attitudes and behavior toward smoking. Questions focused on the type of tobacco products used, the number of cigarettes consumed daily, the desire of smokers to limit their consumption, the attitudes of both smokers and nonsmokers toward the use of tobacco products in public, the effects of being exposed to other people's smoke (''passive smoking''), opinions regarding regulations prohibiting smoking in some public places, feelings about smoke in the workplace, the advertising of tobacco products, and knowledge of the ''European Code of Cancer'' (a set of elementary rules, developed by a committee of cancer experts, for the possible prevention of cancer). An additional section of this survey focused on the safety of consumer products and services. Respondents were asked what was most important to them when purchasing a product, whether enough attention was being paid to consumer product safety, what concerns they had regarding product safety, and whether governments, private companies, or consumers themselves were mainly responsible for the safe use of certain products. Other areas of focus included safety expectations while traveling in other countries and the need to be told about potentially dangerous situations such as nuclear accidents, oil spills, or water contamination, the value of insurance to cover risks while traveling, worries regarding the safety of older adults and children, and the incidence of major domestic accidents among family members. As in previous Euro-Barometers, questions on political party preference asked respondents which party they felt the closest to, how they voted in their country's last general election, and how they would vote if a general election were held the next day. Additional information was gathered on family income, number of people residing in the home, size of locality, home ownership, trade union membership, region of residence, occupation of the head of household, and the respondent's age, sex, education, religion, religiosity, subjective social class standing, socio-professional status, and left-right political self-placement.

Series Statement

• Eurobarometer survey series
• ICPSR ; 6044

Uniform Title

ICPSR (Series) ; 6044.

Subject

• European Economic Community > Public opinion
• Court of Justice of the European Communities > Public opinion
• Consumers > European Economic Community countries > Attitudes
• Smoking > European Economic Community countries
• Passive smoking > European Economic Community countries
• Public opinion > European Economic Community countries
• Attitudes
• Cancer
• Consumer attitudes
• Consumer protection
• Economic integration
• European Court of Justice
• European Parliament
• European unification
• European Union
• Health behavior
• Health education
• International law
• Life satisfaction
• Maastricht Treaty
• Political influence
• Product safety
• Public opinion
• Quality of life
• Social change
• Smoking
• Travel
• Voter preferences

Genre/Form

• dataset.
• dataset – 1992.

Note

• Codebook available in print and electronic format.
• Title from title screen (viewed on May 29, 2008).

Access (note)

• Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

File Type (note)

• Extent of collection: 1 data file + machine-readable documentation (text) + SAS data definition statements + SPSS data definition statements + data collection instrument.

Event (note)

• Date(s) of collection: September 21, 1992-October 15, 1992.
• Time period: September 21, 1992-October 15, 1992.

Coverage (note)

• Geographic coverage: Belgium, Denmark, Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Global.

Cite As (note)

• Reif, Karlheinz, and Anna Melich. EURO-BAROMETER 38.0: EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE, PASSIVE SMOKING, AND CONSUMER ISSUES, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1992 [Computer file]. Conducted by INRA (Europe), Brussels. 2nd ZA ed. Koeln, Germany: Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung [producer], 1993. Koeln, Germany: Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 1995.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.

OCLC

• ocn177656771
• SCSB-1287551

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library