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A step-by-step ESDS International study guide to:
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Guide to European Social Survey
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The European Social Survey (ESS) is a biennial multi-country survey covering over
30 nations. Its aim is to measure and explain trends in attitudes, beliefs and values
across countries in Europe and its close neighbours. The first five rounds were
fielded in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010.
The project is funded by the European Commission, the European Science Foundation,
academic funding bodies and National Science Foundations in each participating country.
The project is directed by a Central Co-ordinating Team at the Centre for Comparative
Social Surveys at City University, London, and the UK component is funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). More information is available at:
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Topic coverage
The ESS questionnaire includes two main sections, each consisting of approximately
120 items; a 'core' module which will remain relatively constant from round to round,
plus two or more 'rotating' modules, repeated at intervals.
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The core module aims to monitor change and continuity in a wide range of social
variables, including media use, social and public trust; political interest and
participation; socio-political orientations, governance and efficacy; moral, political
and social values; social exclusion, national, ethnic and religious allegiances;
well-being, health and security; demographics and socio-economics.
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The 2002 rotating modules focus upon immigration and asylum, and active citizenship.
The 2004 rotating modules focus upon attitudes to health and medicine, the balance
between work and family, and economic morality.
The 2006 rotating modules focus upon personal and social well-being, and 'the timing
of life'.
The 2008 rotating modules focus upon welfare attitudes, and experiences and expressions
of ageism.
The 2010 rotating modules focus on work, family and well-being, and trust in criminal
justice.
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Thirty-three nations have participated in the surveys: Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria;
Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece;
Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Latvia; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Norway;
Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland;
Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom.
Accessing data and documentation
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Users will need to register on the European Social Survey Data Archive web site,
where further details about this and other aspects of the project may be found.
Registration is a very quick and easy online process. Access to the data is free
of charge and provided by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services. ESS registered
users can browse, analyse and download the data online from the ESS Data Archive
web site.
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Users can currently access data and documentation from rounds 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Questionnaires and information about the survey are also available from the Survey
Question Bank (SQB).
- ESS Data Archive:
- ESS Home Site:
- SQB ESS:
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Related data
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The US Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy Survey integrated several elements of
a rotating module from the ESS round 1 questionnaire.
The data are available to download from:
- US Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy Survey:
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European Social Survey Education Net
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ESS EduNet is a training resource mainly developed for use in higher education where
theoretical questions can be explored using ESS data. There are currently seven
topics available – immigration; well-being; family, gender and work; social and
political trust; human values; regression and weighting ESS data. Hands-on examples
and exercises guide users through the research process; from a theoretical problem
to the interpretation of statistical results.
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Survey results
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A list of publications using ESS data can be found via the 'Bibliography'
section of the ESS site:
http://ess.nsd.uib.no/bibliography/
Also see:
- Publications citing ESDS International data:
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www.esds.ac.uk help@esds.ac.uk
I4732 - Guide to European Social Survey
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