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Release:1.0.1
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Data Kind:
individual data
Time Dimensions:
longitudinal (trend repeated cross-section)
Series Name:
EB - Eurobarometer
The Eurobarometer survey is designed to provide regular monitoring of public social and political attitudes in the EU through specific trend questions. Therefore, the general aim of EB is to know the attitudes and evaluations of European citizens about large general themes. The questions concern to the European integration issues, but sometimes they regard also specific problem about single country or common problems of economic, political or social nature.
The arguments of Eurobarometer 54LAN are as follows:
- what foreign languages respondents speak and on what level;
- use of foreign languages;
- motivations for learning other languages;
- opinions on the necessity to speak European Union (EU) languages;
- reasons why children should learn other European languages at school;
- the influence of the EU enlargement on communication among the EU member countries.
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Keywords: education
Topic Classification:
Nations: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden
Geographical Unit: size community
Analysis Unit: individual
Universe: whole national population of 15 years and older
Sample Procedure: about 1.000 for each country. Multi-stage stratified random and stratified quota sample
Weight: Weight used. Please read the documentation for any details
Collection Mode: face to face interview
Collection Size: UniData supplies: 1 dataset in SPSS format; 2 questionnaires in PDF format (ita, eng); 1 methodological notes and codebook in PDF format; 1 SPSS syntax file for missing values (5 file)
Documentation:
| Methodological Notes and codebook (pdf): |
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| DDI Documentation: |  |
Data Use Restriction:
UniData – official representative for the dissemination of Eurobarometer surveys in Italy – provides a free data access for all Italian residents upon registration. Data are released in according to GESIS Licence (Category 0), available at this link. Other users will need to contact the GESIS Data Archive.
Source Contact: Meinhard Moschner - GESIS
Citation:
DG Press and Communication, Opinion Polls. (2000) Eurobarometer 54LAN: Special Survey on Languages. European Opinion Research Group [Producer]. GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences [Producer]. UniData - Bicocca Data Archive, Milan. Study Number SI110. Data file version 2.0
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