Eurobarometer 76.2 (2011)

• Main Author: European Commission, Brussels DG Communication (COMM.A.1 ´Research and Speechwriting´)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12006; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5566?lang=en; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5566?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 modules are included: 1. Employment and social policy, 2. Active aging. Topics: 1. Employment and social policy: concerns about losing the job (respondent, respondent´s partner and children of the respondent); expected improvement in the labor market after the crisisin two years; knowledge of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) and the European Social Fund (ESF); number of times the respondent has changed employer and years working for the current or last employer; most important skills to find a job easily; job security (short-term and long-term perspective); likelihood of finding a job (scale); type of job search in the case of dismissal; interest in self-employment; self-rated administrative procedures to start a business; assumed difficulties in establishing a business for selected types of people; estimated share of unemployment insurance; attitude towardschanges in the labor market (scale); preferred measure for job creation (scale); EU´s impact on national employment and social policies in general and in specifical areas; preferred action against undeclared work; participation in training courses; reasons for not taking part in further training; completed traineeship; traineeship as an entry into a job; employment after completed education; length of traineeship; traineeship funding; training and job search; career guidance receivedat school; desire ...