‘European Mindset’

Economy and Society

Public Opinion Research

2009

European Mindset is a public opinion study looking at how Europeans engage with Europe as a political, socioeconomic and cultural space and comparing their values in public domains, like politics and the economy, and more private areas like ethics, religion and the family.

DIRECTOR

Dpto. de Estudios Sociales y Opinón Pública - Fundación BBVA

DESCRIPTION

The results of the study show a strong consensus around political and economic values like the market economy or the welfare state, in contrast to the differences persisting between countries with regard to ethical, religious and family values.

Citizens opine on questions like religious practice and the present-day significance of religious ceremonies; euthanasia, abortion or sexual infidelity. The study also invites their views on contemporary social practices like living as a couple without being married, being a lone parent, same-sex marriages or the possibility of gay couples adopting children.

Universe: general population aged 15 and over.

Sample size and distribution: 1,500 cases in each of the following 14 countries: 12 European Union member states (Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom), Switzerland and Turkey.

Method: administered face-to-face questionnaire in the interviewee’s home.

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