Eurobarometer 95.2 (2021)

• Main Author: European Commission, Brussels; Directorate General Communication, COMM.A.3 ‘Media Monitoring and Eurobarometer’
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13884; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7782?lang=en; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7782?lang=de

Since the early 1970s the European Commission´s Standard & Special Eurobarometer are regularly monitoring the public opinion in the European Union member countries. Principal investigators are the Directorate-General Communication and on occasion other departments of the European Commission or the European Parliament. Over time, candidate and accession countries were included in the Standard Eurobarometer Series. Selected questions or modules may not have been surveyed in each sample. Please consult the basic questionnaire for more information on country filter instructions or other questionnaire routing filters. In this study the following module is included: European citizens’ knowledge and attitudes towards science and technology. Topics: most influential factors in determining the status of a country or group of countries in the world: military and defence capabilities, export of cultural works, scientific and technological advancement, economic strength, availability of natural resources, living and working conditions and well-being, social services (incl. health and welfare), environmental protection, rule of law, other; personal interest in each of the following issues: new medical discoveries, new scientific discoveries and technological developments, sports news, culture and the arts, politics, environmental problems and climate change; self-rated knowledge with regard to each of the aforementioned issues; preferred sources of information on developments in science and technology; least used source of information on developments in science and technology; best qualified actors to explain the impact of scientific and technological developments on society: scientists working at a university or government-funded research organisation, scientists working in an industrial or privately funded research organisation, journalists, politicians, consumer organisations, environmental protection associations, industry and private companies, people active on online social networks and bloggers, religious ...