[EB] Eurobarometer survey 48 and up

[Meinhard Moschner]

Dear Laila:

in addition to what I already informed you about this morning:

Information on the Weight variables in the original data and 
documentation is available at:

http://www.gesis.org/en/data_service/eurobarometer/standard_eb/
ebweight.htm

Please note the VARIABLE LABELS for the WEIGHT variables (W1 
etc.) in the original SPSS data set for identification.

COUNTRY SPECIFIC coding is usually not needed because in 
these cases each country is coded in separately (e.g. income for 
Denmark is variable 'D29DEN', this is also documented accordingly 
in the original codebook, not in the basic questionnaire).    

Sorry for the inconveniencies. The archives a working to come up 
with processing and standard documentation of Eurobarometer, but 
also considered important to release the data as soon as possible, 
even if still not that well prepared...  

In case of any doubt or problem, please don't hesitate to contact me 
again.

Meinhard
   

On 31 Oct 01, at 10:08, Laila Haider wrote:

> 
> For the purpose of my research, I need the demographic data from all
> the Eurobarometer surveys conducted up to and including the year 2000.
> While I have the data and documentation (pdf codebooks), I found that
> the codebooks starting from Eurobarometer 48.0 onwards are rather
> concise (compared to past codebooks) and unfortunately do not give all
> the information clearly. Specifically, what I am missing in these
> codebooks are the variable names corresponding with the questions and
> also the country codes, weights, etc. 
> 
> While I understand that I can probably use the SPSS program to
> identify variable names and codes for respondent's answers, I was
> wondering if anyone has already engaged in this exercise and would be
> willing to share the information.
> 
> Again, the surveys with which I have this problem are Eurobarometer
> 48.0 onwards - up to Eurobarometer 54.0. If someone has created their
> own codebooks for any of these because they used the survey data in
> the past, I would really appreciate hearing from you. I would also
> like to hear if anyone has suggestions on how to go about this.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Laila Haider
> 
> Economics Department
> Columbia University
> New York
> 
> 




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