Eurofound's e-survey 'Living, working and COVID-19' captures how the pandemic impacts living and working in Europe. The survey looks at quality of life and well-being, with questions ranging from life satisfaction, happiness and optimism, to health and levels of trust in institutions. Respondents are also asked about their work situation, their work–life balance and level of teleworking during COVID-19. The survey also assesses the impact of the pandemic on people’s living conditions and financial situation.

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Carried out every four years, the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) examines both the objective circumstances of European citizens' lives and how they feel about those circumstances and their lives in general. It collects data on a range of issues, such as employment, income, education, housing, family, health and work-life balance. It also looks at subjective topics, such as people's levels of happiness, life satisfaction, and perceived quality of society. By running the survey regularly, it has also become possible to track key trends in the quality of people's lives over time. Previous surveys have shown, for instance, that people are having greater difficulty making ends meet since the economic crisis began. In many countries, they also feel that there is now more tension between people from different ethnic groups. And across Europe, people now trust their governments less than they did before. However, people still continue to get the greatest satisfaction from their family life and personal relationships.

Over the years, the EQLS has developed into a valuable set of indicators which complements traditional indicators of economic growth and living standard such as GDP or income. The EQLS indicators are more inclusive of environmental and social aspects of progress and therefore are easily integrated into the decision-making process and taken up by public debate at EU and national levels in the European Union.

In each wave a sample of adult population has been selected randomly for a face to face interview. In view of the prospective European enlargements the geographical coverage of the survey has expanded over time from 28 countries in 2003 to 34 countries in 2011-12.

Further information about the survey can be found on the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) EQLS web pages.

For the second edition (January 2014) the data file has been updated with a new total weighting variable. See documentation for further details and see also the updated version of the EQLS integrated file, held under SN 7348).


Main Topics:

The survey covers multiple dimensions of quality of life: employment and work-life balance, income and deprivation, housing and local environment, family and social contacts, health and mental wellbeing, subjective wellbeing (e.g. happiness, life satisfaction), social exclusion, perceived quality of society (e.g. tensions, trust in institutions) as well as access to and perceived quality of public services.

Eurofound Income indicators is a section of the Eurofound interactive database on quality of life in Europe. Its website offers quantitative and quantified indicators drawn from surveys of the European Foundation and other published sources. The data cover 34 countries.

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The European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) is conducted by Eurofound (the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions). Since its launch in 1990, the EWCS has provided an overview of working conditions in Europe. The main objectives of the survey are to:

• assess and quantify working conditions of both employees and the self-employed across Europe on a harmonised basis;
• analyse relationships between different aspects of working conditions;
• identify groups at risk and issues of concern as well as of progress;
• monitor trends by providing homogeneous indicators on these issues; and
• contribute to European policy development in particular on quality of work and employment issues.

Themes covered include employment status, working time duration and organisation, work organisation, learning and training, physical and psychosocial risk factors, health and safety, work-life balance, worker participation, earnings and financial security, as well as work and health.

The EWCS paints a wide-ranging picture of Europe at work across countries, occupations, sectors and age groups. Its findings highlight actions for policy actors to help them address the challenges facing Europe today. The EWCS is generally conducted once every five years, although an extra wave was conducted in 2001 to cover the new acceding and candidate EU countries. The survey is based on a questionnaire which is administered face-to-face to a random sample of 'persons in employment' (i.e. employees and the self-employed), representative of the working population in each EU country. An integrated dataset is also available (see SN 7363) which combines data from the first five waves of the survey in one file.

Before working with the EWCS data, users are recommended to read the latest supplementary supporting documentation on the Eurofound European Working Conditions Survey webpages. Further information about the series can be found there, including methodological information, technical reports and reports on translation, sampling implementation, sampling evaluation and weighting, coding, quality control, quality assurance and other publications.

The EWCS 1990-1991 also formed part of the Euro-Barometer 35A: Working Conditions, Spring 1991 survey (see under SN 2954).


Main Topics:

Topics covered included: exposure to noise, bad weather and other hazardous conditions during work; repetitive, tiring or painful working activities; choice and decision-making regarding work tasks, methods and order of activities; access to sufficient information regarding work tasks; adequacy of training and equipment; support from colleagues and managers; whether wages are dependent on respondents' work rate; whether health and safety risks are present due to working conditions; attempts to change job to seek healthier or safer work; hours worked per week.

European Union - Share of total population living in a dwelling with a leaking roof, damp walls, floors or foundation, or rot in window frames of floor was 15.60% in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for European Union - Share of total population living in a dwelling with a leaking roof, damp walls, floors or foundation, or rot in window frames of floor - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, European Union - Share of total population living in a dwelling with a leaking roof, damp walls, floors or foundation, or rot in window frames of floor reached a record high of 16.30% in December of 2010 and a record low of 12.70% in December of 2019.

The European Quality of Life Time Series, 2007 and 2011 dataset was prepared as open access data, originally for the UK Data Service's first App Challenge in summer 2015. The dataset has achieved Platinum (Expert level) certification from the Open Data Institute (ODI) which means this open data is an exceptional example of information infrastructure.

The dataset is a harmonised subset of variables taken from the larger European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS), which is one of a number of key surveys carried out by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), a European Union Agency established in 1975 to contribute to the planning and design of better living and working conditions. The open access dataset contains 195 variables from two of the EQLS survey years, 2007 and 2011/12, three weighting variables, and almost 80,000 cases.

The EQLS is a unique, pan-European survey, established in 2003 and carried out once every four years. The survey examines both the objective circumstances of European citizens' lives and how they feel about those circumstances and their lives in general. It looks at a range of issues, such as employment, income, education, housing, family, health and work-life balance. It also looks at subjective topics, such as people's levels of happiness, how satisfied they are with their lives, and how they perceive the quality of their societies.

Further information about the survey can be found on the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) EQLS webpage.

A larger EQLS combined file spanning 2003-2012, subject to standard End User Licence access conditions, is available to registered UK Data Service users under SN 7348 - European Quality of Life Survey Integrated Data File, 2003-2012

The first company survey was carried out in 2004-2005 and focused on working time and work-life balance policies in establishments in the former EU15 Member States and six of the new: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovenia.

This is the dataset arising from a survey of European research funders on Open Access (OA) and Research Data (RD) policies, commissioned by SPARC Europe, in consultation with representatives from the following organisations: ALLEA, the European Foundation Centre and Science Europe and a wider advisory group.

Launched in the spring of 2019, the survey, which targeted about 400 funders, garnered just over 60 responses from 29 countries. The cohort includes important national funding agencies (almost 50%), pan-European funders, national and regional academies, foundations and philanthropic organisations and research charities.

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2025.06.06 Update

We have updated our integrated research projects dataset, now containing nearly 1.9 million records sourced from nine national and international funding agencies. For ease of use, the dataset is split into five CSV files:

• Projects with start dates before 2010 (309,255 projects)
• Projects between 2010 and 2015 (518,385 projects)
• Projects between 2016 and 2020 (511,419 projects)
• Projects from 2021 onwards (332,396 projects)
• Projects with unknown start dates (218,916 projects)

Data sources include:

• NIH RePORTER: >1.2 million projects from 2010
• National Science Foundation (US): >188,000 projects from 2010
• UKRI Gateway to Research: >160,000 (full dataset)
• Europe PMC: >94,000 projects (full dataset, deduplicated)
• Swiss National Science Foundation: 62,000 (filtered for completeness)
• Swedish Research Council: >60,000 (full dataset)
• European Commission: >51,000 projects (Horizon 2020 & Horizon Europe)
• NIHR Funding and Awards: >37,000 (full dataset)
• French National Agency for Research: >23,000 projects from 2010

This Zenodo entry provides harmonised and integrated datasets of research grants and associated awardees, designed specifically for research funding analyses. It represents one of the most comprehensive openly accessible compilations of research project funding data, primarily covering UK and European sources with substantial international representation.

Data harmonisation included:

• Standardised formats and nomenclature of metadata categories.
• Handling of missing values and deduplication prioritising completeness (all entries missing both title and abstract were removed).
• Consistent assignment of country information using the best available method per source.

Limitations:

• Single-institution representation for multi-institutional EPMC grants.
• Country assignments occasionally inferred from limited direct data.
• Original currencies retained without conversion.
• Variable availability of organisational/researcher identifiers.
• Current focus on agencies from the Global North.

Reproducibility and transparency:

Included is a Google Colab notebook containing processing code, methodologies, and documented limitations to ensure reproducibility and transparency.

Future development plans:

• Incorporation of additional national and international funding sources.
• Collaboration with charity partners for charity-specific funding data.
• Linking with resources such as the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and CrossRef.
• Conducting regular "live analyses" with advanced methods (e.g., topic modelling).

Citation guidance:

If you use this dataset, please cite:

Gómez Magenti, J. (2025). Harmonised datasets of research project grants from UK and European funders [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15606836

Since 2012, the WageIndicator Foundation has maintained a Collective Agreements Database, where the texts of 1600 collective agreements (CBAs) from 61 countries and in 27 languages have been uploaded, coded and annotated. This database is a unique example at global level: collective agreements are documents containing conditions of employment that result from negotiations between independent unions and employers, and their content is often surrounded by an atmosphere of secrecy. Under the SSHOC project and with the support of the CLARIN Research Infrastructure, the agreements have been manually and automatically annotated on several levels: for each agreement, the team answers a series of questions and selects the appropriate piece of text (clause) for each.

One of the results of the collective agreements' annotation process is the dataset which is available here and includes all the clauses selected for each variable (WageIndicator_CBADatabase_Selected_Clauses). The full collective agreements' texts are stored in another dataset, also available here (WageIndicator_CBADatabase_Full_Texts_211019). A codebook is also included (210125-wageindicator-cba-codebook.pdf).

European companies play a crucial role in getting out of the crisis and in reaching the goals of the European 2020 strategy for sustainable, inclusive and smart growth. The main focus of the third European Company Survey was on work organisation, HR practices, employee participation and social dialogue. The survey, carried out from in the spring of 2013, maps a number of practices used in European workplaces, as well as how they are discussed and negotiated at workplace level as well as some of their outcomes. Eurofound’s data explorer makes the results from its Europe-wide surveys highly accessible. This multilingual, interactive tool allows you to explore data at the level of individual questions, with Europe-wide reporting and comparison, or to drill down into single country results. Data can be visualised in multiple ways, including a European map, national and European bar charts and graphical country groupings. Visualisations and data can be shared online or downloaded in a range of formats, including high-resolution ones (EPS, HTML, PDF, PNG, SVG, XLS).

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Eurofound’s European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) documents living conditions and people’s social situation, and explores issues pertinent to the lives of European citizens. From September 2016 to March 2017, Eurofound carried out its fourth survey in the series (in operation since 2003). The EQLS 2016 interviewed nearly 37,000 people in 33 countries – the 28 EU Member States and 5 candidate countries (Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey). Its findings provide detailed information on a broad range of issues in three main areas:

• - Quality of life: subjective well-being, optimism, health, standard of living and aspects of deprivation, work–life balance

• • Quality of society: social insecurity, perception of social exclusion and societal tensions, trust in people and institutions, participation and community engagement, and involvement in training/life-long learning

  • Quality of public services: health-care, long-term care, childcare and other public services

The European Jobs Monitor (EJM) tracks structural change in European labour markets. It analyses shifts in the employment structure in the EU in terms of occupation and sector and gives a qualitative assessment of these shifts using various proxies of job quality – wages, skill-levels, etc. The EJM covers all 28 EU Member States and is based primarily on analysis of European Labour Force survey data.

The European Company Surveys (ECS) are conducted by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), an autonomous agency of the European Union, funded from the general budget of the European Commission. The aims of the ECS are to map, assess and quantify information on workplace policies and practices across Europe in a harmonised way and – to a lesser extent – to monitor developments over time. The ECS has been carried out every four years since 2004. It is a questionnaire-based representative sample survey carried out by telephone in the language(s) of the country. Interviews take place with the manager responsible for human resources in the establishment and when possible with an employee representative.

The first ECS (known as the Establishment Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance, 2004-2005, held under SN 5655) covered workplace practices with regard to working time arrangements and work-life balance. The second ECS, carried out in 2009 (SN 6568), looked at different forms of flexibility as well as accompanying human resource management practices and the nature and quality of workplace social dialogue. The third ECS (SN 7735), carried out in spring 2013, looked at practices with regard to work organisation, human resources management, employee participation and social dialogue in European workplaces.

Further information about the ECS can be found on the Eurofound European Company Surveys webpages.

Eurofound and Cedefop have joined forces to carry out the fourth European Company Survey (ECS) in 2019. The European Company Survey, 2019 collects data in over 20,000 establishments in the European Union Member States and the United Kingdomon on workplace practices with regard to work organisation, human resource management, skills use, skills strategies, digitalisation, direct employee participation and social dialogue. It allows for the identification of those bundles of workplace practices that work particularly well in creating win–win outcomes: situations where workers are facilitated and motivated to use their skills to the full, share their knowledge and insights with colleagues and management, and identify opportunities to improve both themselves and the work process as a whole, allowing establishments to thrive.

The ECS 2019 is the first large-scale, cross-national survey to use a push-to-web approach. Establishments were contacted via telephone to identify a management respondent, and, where possible, an employee representative respondent. Respondents were then asked to fill out the survey questionnaire online. This approach reduces the burden on respondents and is expected to improve the quality of responses. Having the questionnaire administration fully online makes the ECS well and truly future-proof.

Abstract

The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically-driven multi-country survey covering over 20 nations. Its three aims are, firstly - to monitor and interpret changing public attitudes and values within Europe and to investigate how they interact with Europe's changing institutions, secondly - to advance and consolidate improved methods of cross-national survey measurement in Europe and beyond, and thirdly - to develop a series of European social indicators, including attitudinal indicators.

In the first round, the survey covers over 22 nations and employs the most rigorous methodologies. It is funded via the European Commission's 5th Framework Programme, the European Science Foundation, and national funding bodies in each country. It involves strict random probability sampling, a minimum target response rate of 70% and rigorous translation protocols. The hour-long face-to-face interview includes (amongst others) questions on immigration, citizenship and socio-political issues.

Geographic coverage

1) European Union countries - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. 2) Non-European Union countries - Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland.

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

All persons aged 15 and over, resident within private households, regardless of their nationality, citizenship, language or legal status, in the participating countries.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Sampling procedure varied by country. Please see the "Documentation Report" available in the 'Documentation' section for detailed information on how sampling was conducted in each of the 22 countries.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument

Austria - structured questionnaires in German Belgium - structured questionnaires in Dutch and French Czech Republic - structured questionnaires in Czech Denmark - structured questionnaires in Danish Finland - structured questionnaires in Finnish and Swedish France - structured questionnaires in French Germany - structured questionnaires in German Greece - structured questionnaires in Greek Hungary - structured questionnaires in Hungarian Ireland - structured questionnaires in English Israel - structured questionnaires in Hebrew, Russian, and Arabic Italy - structured questionnaires in Italian Luxembourg - structured questionnaires in French, German, Luxembourgish, Portuguese, English Netherlands - structured questionnaires in Dutch Norway - structured questionnaires in Norwegian and English Poland - structured questionnaires in Polish Portugal - structured questionnaires in Portuguese Slovenia - structured questionnaires in Slovenian Spain - structured questionnaires in Spanish and Catalan Sweden - structured questionnaires in Swedish Switzerland - structured questionnaires in Swiss German, French, and Italian United Kingdom - structured questionnaires in English

Response rate

Response rate varied by country. Please see the "Documentation Report" available in the 'Documentation' section for detailed information on the response rate in each of the 22 countries.

​Eurofound’s European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) paints a wide-ranging picture of Europe at work across countries, occupations, sectors and age groups. Its findings highlight actions for policy actors to help them address the challenges facing Europe today. In 2015, Eurofound carried out its sixth survey in the series (in operation since 1991). This sixth survey interviewed nearly 44,000 workers in 35 countries. Its findings provide detailed information on a broad range of issues, including exposure to physical and psychosocial risks, work organisation, work–life balance, and health and well-being.

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Lucror Analytics: Fundamental Fixed Income Data and Financial Models for High-Yield Bond Issuers

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