The ESS survey (European Social Survey, http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org) emerged from the need to obtain comparative data in Europe on a number of issues of political science, sociology, social psychology, mass communication or economics. The ESS is a study introduced in 2002 and replicated every two years. This is the ninth edition of the study in Switzerland. The ESS provides indicators on the practices and representations of the Swiss population, making it possible to compare them with European countries and to observe the evolution over time. The ESS 2018 R9 edition focuses on 'Justice and Fairness' and 'Timing of Life'.

The fielded modules of Round 9 are:
A) Media and social trust B) Politics C) Subjective well-being, social exclusion, religion, national identity F) Socio demographics D) Timing of Life G) Fairness and Justice H) Human values I) Test questions J) Interviewer self-completion questions

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.

Abstract

The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically-driven multi-country survey, which has been administered in over 30 countries to date. 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 fourth round, the survey covers 31 countries and employs the most rigorous methodologies. It is funded via the European Commission's 6th 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 questions on a variety of core topics repeated from previous rounds of the survey and also two modules developed for Round Four covering Experiences and Expressions of Ageism and Welfare attitudes in a changing Europe.

Geographic coverage

1) European Union countries - Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. 2) Non-European Union countries: Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine.

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

All persons aged 15 and over, resident within private households, regardless of their nationality, citizenship, language or legal status, in 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 31 countries.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument

Austria - structured questionnaires in German Belgium - structured questionnaires in Dutch and French Bulgaria - structured questionnaires in Bulgarian Croatia - structured questionnaires in Croatian
Cyprus - structured questionnaires in Greek Czech Republic - structured questionnaires in Czech Denmark - structured questionnaires in Danish Estonia - structured questionnaires in Estonian and Russian 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, Arabic, and Russian Latvia - structured questionnaires in Latvian and Russian Lithuania - structured questionnaires in Lithuanian and Russian Netherlands - structured questionnaires in Nederlands [Dutch] Norway - structured questionnaires in Norwegian Poland - structured questionnaires in Polish Portugal - structured questionnaires in Portuguese Romania - structured questionnaires in Romanian Russian Federation - structured questionnaires in Russian Slovakia - structured questionnaires in Slovak and Hungarian Slovenia - structured questionnaires in Slovenian Spain - structured questionnaires in Spanish, Catalan, and Galician Sweden - structured questionnaires in Swedish Switzerland - structured questionnaires in Swiss German, French, and Italian Turkey - structured questionnaires in Turkish (in a very limited number of interviews, some Kurdish explanations were given) Ukraine - structured questionnaires in Ukrainian and Russian 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 31 countries.

L'enquête ESS (European Social Survey, http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org) est née de la nécessité d'obtenir en Europe des données comparatives sur nombre de questions intéressant les sciences politiques, la sociologie, la psychologie sociale, la communication de masse ou les sciences économiques. L'ESS est une étude introduite en 2002 et reproduite tous les deux ans. Il s'agit donc de la troisième édition de l'étude en Suisse. L'ESS offre des indicateurs sur les pratiques et les représentations de la population suisse, permettant de les comparer avec les pays européens, et d'observer l'évolution dans le temps. L'édition 2006 s'intéresse plus spécifiquement au bien-être social et personnel, ainsi qu'aux relations entre jeunes et moins jeunes.

Der "European Social Survey" (ESS, http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org) ist eine internationale Befragung mit dem Ziel, die Meinungen und Haltungen der europäischen Bevölkerung zu messen und Reaktionen auf Veränderungen der Institutionen in Europa zu erklären. Es geht einerseits darum, Problemstellungen anzugehen, welche im Zentrum der aktuellen sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung stehen. Beispielsweise: Was bedeutet und beinhaltet heute Staatsbürgerschaft oder wie gehen die verschiedenen europäischen Länder mit den Fragen rund um die Migration um? Im 2012 wurde dazu das Thema 'Soziales und persönliches Wohlbefinden' wieder aufgegriffen. Das zweite rundenspezifische Thema betrifft die 'Einschätzung der Demokratie', ein Modul, welches unter der Leitung von Prof. Hanspeter Kriesi entworfen wurde. Diese Umfrage strebt einen sehr hohen Qualitätsstandard an und stellt dabei viele strikte methodische Bedingungen, damit die Daten zwischen den Ländern wirklich vergleichbar sind. Die ESS-Befragungen finden alle zwei Jahre statt. An der ersten Durchführung, die im Herbst 2002 stattgefunden hat, haben sich über 20 Länder beteiligt, heute sind es über 30. In der Schweiz nehmen jeweils mindestens 1500 Personen daran teil. Die Erhebung in der Schweiz führt heute das Institut MIS Trend im Auftrag von FORS durch. L'enquête ESS (European Social Survey, http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org) est née de la nécessité d'obtenir en Europe des données comparatives sur nombre de questions intéressant les sciences politiques, la sociologie, la psychologie sociale, la communication de masse ou les sciences économiques. L'ESS est une étude introduite en 2002 et reproduite tous les deux ans. Il s'agit donc de la cinquième édition de l'étude en Suisse. L'ESS offre des indicateurs sur les pratiques et les représentations de la population suisse, permettant de les comparer avec les pays européens, et d'observer l'évolution dans le temps. L'édition 2012 s'intéresse notamment à la 'Compréhension et évaluation de la démocratie' et reprend le module 'Bien-être social et personnel' de 2006. The ESS survey (European Social Survey, http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org) was born from the need to obtain in Europe comparative data on a number of questions concerning political science, sociology, social psychology, communication mass or economics. ESS is a study introduced in 2002 and replicated every two years. This is the fifth edition of the study in Switzerland. The ESS offers indicators on the practices and representations of the Swiss population, making it possible to compare them with European countries, and to observe changes over time. The 2012 edition focuses on 'Understanding and Evaluating Democracy' and includes the 'Social and Personal Well-Being' module of 2006.

Abstract

L'enquête "European Social Survey" (ESS, http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org) est une nouvelle enquête destinée à mesurer les attitudes et croyances des populations européennes et à expliquer les réactions aux changements des institutions en Europe. Pourquoi une nouvelle enquête ? D'abord pour attaquer des problématiques qui sont au coeur des préoccupations des chercheurs aujourd'hui. Par exemple, qu'est-ce que la citoyenneté aujourd'hui ? Comment les différents pays européens vivent-ils les questions posées par l'immigration ? Cette enquête est aussi nouvelle car elle vise des standards de qualité très élevés, et impose donc de nombreuses et sévères conditions méthodologiques, de telle sorte que les données soient vraiment comparables entre les pays. Plus de 20 pays ont participé à la deuxième édition qui s'est déroulée en automne 2004. La prochaine édition aura lieu en 2006, puisqu'il est prévu de réaliser une enquête ESS toutes les deux années.

La deuxième enquête ESS en Suisse fut réalisée par l'institut MIS Trend, mandaté par l'archive suisse pour les sciences sociales, le SIDOS (actuellement FORS : http://forscenter.ch/fr/ ). Le terrain s'est terminé fin février 2005, avec plus de 2000 personnes interrogées en Suisse.

Geographic coverage

Suisse (CH)

Analysis unit

Individu

Universe

Population suisse âgée de 15 ans et plus parlant allemand, français ou italien.

Kind of data

Données quantitatives

Sampling procedure

Sélection aléatoire à 3 phases: 1) Tirage aléatoire de Sample points: 222 Sample Points ont été tirés aléatoirement après qu'ils aient été stratifiés selon les six régions suivantes: - Région lémanique (VD, VS, GE) - Espace Mittelland (BE, FR, SO, NE, JU) - Nordschweiz (ZH, BS, BL, AG) - Ostschweiz (GL, SH, AR, AI, SG, GR, TG) - Zentralschweiz (LU, UR, SZ, OW, NW, ZG) - Ticino (TI) 2) Sélection aléatoire des ménages à partir du registre téléphonique; 3) Tirage de la personne-cible au moyen de la méthode KISH.

Mode of data collection

Entretien téléphonique

Research instrument

Questionnaire

Response rate

46.9% (sur l'échtillon net)

The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically-driven multi-country survey, which has been administered in over 30 countries to date. 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 fifth round, the survey covers 28 countries and employs the most rigorous methodologies. During ESS Round 5 Year 1 there was no suitable EC funding vehicle available for ESS coordination. A group of national ESS funders therefore provided funding for the coordination of Round 5 Year 1. These included: UK (Economic and Social Research Council), Germany (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), Sweden (Swedish Research Council), Switzerland (Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)), the Netherlands (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), Finland (Academy of Finland, Research Council for Culture and Society), Norway (Research Council of Norway) and Austria (Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour). Supplementary funds are being provided by the European Science Foundation (ESF) for scientific liaison. City University in the UK also made a financial contribution for Year 1 of Round 5 of the ESS. The survey involves strict random probability sampling, a minimum target response rate of 70% and rigorous translation protocols. The hour-long face-to-face interview includes questions on a variety of core topics repeated from previous rounds of the survey and also two modules developed for Round Five covering Trust in the Police and Courts and Work, Family and Wellbeing (the latter is a partial repeat of a module from round 2).

The political institutions of the European Community and of single nations are facing new challenges and changes in the 21st century. The European Social Survey poses the question of how this change is reflected in the thinking and behaviour of the various population groups within Europe. The Austrian sub-study also explores this question. What personal ideas do Austrians have about democracy and society in their country and in the European Union? The project idea of the ESS was developed by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European Social Survey includes population surveys in all participating countries. A uniform questionnaire on various problems of political and social coexistence (social and political trust, governance, morality, media, social and political values and attitudes, well-being, national identity) is used, which is supplemented by country-specific questions as well as changing focus topics. The country studies are conducted with the highest possible methodological standards of empirical survey research (translation, sampling, reliability and validity control by the Scientific Monitoring Committee). The ESS is designed as a time series; the surveys are to take place every two years. The first survey wave took place in 2002/2003 and focused on migration, citizenship and social participation. The second survey wave was in 2004/2005, the main focus of the ESS 2 was on health, economic morality, family and work. The third wave of the ESS took place in 2006/2007 with the topics life biography, well-being, satisfaction. The fourth wave of the ESS was in 2008/2009, the thematic focuses were welfare state, social policy, age discrimination. The main long-term objective of the European Social Survey (ESS) is to describe and explain the interaction between the changing political and economic institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of the populations of the respective countries. The additional Austrian questions include the areas of health, social status and housing conditions (questions H37 - H65, page 49 - 51 of the questionnaire).

The CARPE project has been developed to empirically address the religious change and secularization debate. The present data set contains aggregate survey-based estimates for the proportion of persons attending church, according to various frequency/probability thresholds. Further variables are sample shares of denominations, proportion female, average respondent age, proportions of rough educational attainment groups, and identifiers for country, year, and survey programme. The pooled dataset involves 45 European countries and spans the years 1973 to 2016, with variable density of coverage across the countries. Those countries are Albania, Austria, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Croatia, Cyprus, Northern Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

Estimates were derived from the individual-level data of the following survey programmes: • Eurobarometer (http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/), • European Social Survey (ESS), (http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/), • European Values Study (EVS), (http://www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu/), • International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) (http://www.issp.org/), • World Values Survey (WVS) (http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/)

THIS REPOSITORY CONTAINS ALL REPLICATION FILES (DATA AND ANALYSIS SCRIPTS) TO REPLICATE THE RESULTS AND FINDINGS PRESENTED IN THE ARTICLE "CONSPIRACY BELIEFS AND PERCEPTIONS OF ELECTORAL INTEGRITY: CROSS-NATIONAL EVIDENCE FROM 29 COUNTRIES" (PUBLISHED IN PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY). The data files in this repositiory contain merged data from (a) the European Social Survey (ESS) round 10, (b) the Varieties of Democracy (V-DEM) Project, (c) the World Bank, and (d) National Elections Across Democracy and Autocracy (NELDA) Project. Relevant documentation and codebooks for each of these data sources can be found at: (a) https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/data; (b) https://www.v-dem.net/data/the-v-dem-dataset/; (c) https://databank.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD/1ff4a498/Popular-Indicators; (d) https://nelda.co/.

This survey is the Swedish part of the 2008 'European Social Survey ' (ESS), and is focusing on welfare attitudes and ageism. The survey also includes data on media and social trust, politics, subjective well being, household characteristics and socio-demographics as well as human values as part of the core module of ESS.

Purpose:

The European Social Survey (the ESS) is an academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations.

This survey is the Swedish part of the 2010 'European Social Survey ' (ESS), and is focusing on family, work and well-being as well as justice. The survey also includes data on media and social trust, politics, subjective well-being, household characteristics and socio-demographics as well as human values as part of the core module of ESS. Purpose: The European Social Survey (the ESS) is an academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations. Denna studie innehåller den svenska delen av ESS 2010 och fokuserar på familjen, arbete, personligt välbefinnande och rättvisa. I undersökningen ingår också uppgifter om medieanvändning och socialt förtroende, politik, religion, immigration, rädsla för brott, hushållets sammansättning och socio-demografisk profil samt mänskliga värderingar som en del av kärnmodulen för ESS. Den europeiska socialundersökningen/European Social Survey (ESS) är en attityd- och beteendeundersökning som sedan år 2002 genomförs vart annat år i mer än 30 europeiska länder. Upplägget gör det möjligt att studera såväl förändring som dagsaktuella frågor. Syfte: European Social Survey (ESS) är en akademiskt driven socialundersökning som syftar till att kartlägga och förklara samspelet mellan Europas föränderliga institutioner och attityder, övertygelser och beteendemönster bland olika befolkningsgrupper.

This survey is the Swedish part of the 2004 'European Social Survey ' (ESS), and is focusing on health and care seeking, economic morality and work, family and well-being. The survey also includes data on media and social trust, politics, subjective well being, household characteristics and socio-demographics as well as human values as part of the core module of ESS.

Purpose:

The European Social Survey (the ESS) is an academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations.

This is a term-map which can be visualized using VOSviewer.

We extracted terms from titles and abstracts from Europen Social Survey publication and visualized them using VOSviewer. Terms are located close to each other if they co-occur frequently. The axes themselves don’t have any special meaning, only the relative distances are relevant. The size of the terms reflect the number of publications.

We provide so-called "overlay" views for various countries and institutions, showing where their activity.

This survey is the Swedish part of the 2002 'European Social Survey ' (ESS), and is focusing on immigration and citizen involvement in particular as well as on media and social trust, politics, subjective well being, household characteristics and socio-demographics as well as human values which are part of the core model of ESS. Purpose: The European Social Survey (the ESS) is an academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations. Data were checked for logical coherence and for correct use of filter instructions, and edited via both individual and automatic corrections.

The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuous programme of cross-national collaboration running annual surveys on topics important for the social sciences. The programme started in 1984 with four founding members - Australia, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States – and has now grown to almost 50 member countries from all over the world. As the surveys are designed for replication, they can be used for both, cross-national and cross-time comparisons. Each ISSP module focuses on a specific topic, which is repeated in regular time intervals. Please, consult the documentation for details on how the national ISSP surveys are fielded. The present study focuses on questions about the environment, climate change and environmental protection.

This article presents new empirical evidence about the impact of Jihadist terrorist attacks on far right preferences using the ‘unexpected event during survey’ research design. This strategy allows us to match individual-level data from the European Social Survey (ESS) to data on Jihadist terrorist attacks to compare respondents’ party preferences before and after a terrorist attack during the same survey period in the Netherlands, Sweden, France and Germany. We theorise and test three distinct hypotheses about how different combinations of attitudinal changes including out-group prejudice and trust in institutions impact on far right preferences. We find no statistically significant effects. Analyses of the two indirect mechanisms- i.e., prejudice and trust- yield mixed results consistent with the null effect on far right party preferences. By showing that terrorist attacks are unlikely to decisively change party support despite attracting significant public attention and affecting political attitudes, our results challenge the argument that Jihadist terrorism necessarily benefits the far-right and highlight the importance of null effects for overcoming confirmation bias in the study of voting behaviour.

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This database integrates the portuguese part of ESS Round 6 - European Social Survey 2012 - with country-specific variables, which were only applied in Portugal. These variables are related with the subjects of the multi-country survey and have been elaborated by the portuguese research team. "The survey (…) includes questions on a variety of core topics repeated from previous rounds of the survey and also two modules developed for Round Six covering Europeans’ Understandings and Evaluations of Democracy and Personal and Social Wellbeing (the latter is a partial repeat of a module from round 3)." (from ESS website).

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