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European Social Survey 2016, Round 8

Europe and Central Asia, 2016 - 2017
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ESS European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC)
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Identification

Survey ID Number
ECA_2016_ESS-R8_v01_M
Title
European Social Survey 2016, Round 8
Country
Name Country code
ECA Region ECA
Study type
Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
Series Information
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since its establishment in 2001. Every two years, face-to-face interviews are conducted with newly selected, cross-sectional samples. The survey measures the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of diverse populations in more than thirty nations.

So far, eight rounds of ESS have been conducted.
Abstract
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically-driven multi-country survey, which has been administered in over 30 countries to date. Its three aims are, firstly – to monitor and interpret changing public attitudes and values within Europe and to investigate how they interact with Europe's changing institutions, secondly - to advance and consolidate improved methods of cross-national survey measurement in Europe and beyond, and thirdly - to develop a series of European social indicators, including attitudinal indicators.

In the eighth round, the survey covers 23 countries and employs the most rigorous methodologies. From Round 7 it is funded by the Members, Observers and Guests of ESS European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC) who represent national governments. Participating countries directly fund the central coordination costs of the ESS ERIC, as well the costs of fieldwork and national coordination in their own country.

The survey involves strict random probability sampling, a minimum target response rate of 70% and rigorous translation protocols. The hour-long face-to-face interview includes questions on a variety of core topics repeated from previous rounds of the survey and also two modules developed for Round 8 covering Public Attitudes to Climate Change, Energy Security, and Energy Preferences and Welfare Attitudes in a Changing Europe (the latter is a partial repeat of a module from Round 4).
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Individuals

Version

Version Description
ESS8 edition 1.0 (published 31.10.17):
Includes data from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.

Variables:
PSPWGHT: Post-stratification weights will be added in a later release in the spring of 2018.

The data is available to users without restrictions, for not-for-profit purposes. In accordance with data protection regulations in participating countries, only anonymous data is available.

The dataset can be downloaded here after a short registration: http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/download.html?file=ESS8e01&y=2016
Version Date
2017-10-31

Scope

Notes
The scope of the study includes:
- social trust
- political interest and participation
- socio-political orientations
- social exclusion
- national, ethnic and religious allegiances
- climate change, energy security and energy preferences
- welfare
- human values
- demographics and socioeconomics

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.

Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal and Spain have also participated in Round 8 ESS, but the data from these countries have not been released yet.
Geographic Unit
Please see: http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/essdoc/doc.html?year=2016&ddi=2.2.3.5
Universe
All persons aged 15 and over resident within private households, regardless of their nationality, citizenship, language or legal status, in the following participating countries:
1) European Union countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
2) Non-European Union countries: Iceland, Israel, Norway, Russian Federation, Switzerland

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
ESS European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC)
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name
Austria - Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy
Austria - Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumber Protection
Belgium - FWO (Flanders) and FNRS (Wallonia)
Czech Republic - Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports
Estonia - Ministry of Education and Research
Finland - Academy of Finland
France - Large National Research Infrastructure PROGEDO and National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Germany - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
Iceland - RANNÍS (Rannsóknamiðstöð Íslands), Mennta- og Menningarmálaráðuneytið, Velferðarráðuneytið, Háskóli Íslands
Ireland - Irish Research Council
Israel - The Council for Higher Education (CHE), The Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC)
Netherlands - The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Norway - The Research Council of Norway
Poland - The Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Russian Federation - Russian Humanitarian Scientic Fund (RGNF)
Slovenia - Slovenian Research Agency, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport
Sweden - Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research Council)
Switzerland - SNFS (Swiss National Science Foundation)
United Kingdom - Economic and Social Research Council

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
Please see: http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/essdoc/doc.html?year=2016&ddi=2.3.1.4
Response Rate
Please see: http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/essdoc/doc.html?year=2016&ddi=2.3.3.1
Weighting
DESIGN WEIGHTS:
The purpose of the design weights (DWEIGHT) is to correct for unequal probabilities for selection due to the sampling design used. In general design weights were computed for each country as follows.

1.w = 1/(PROB1*...*PROBk) is a nx1 vector of weights ; k depends on the number of stages of the sampling design.

2. All weights were rescaled in a way that the sum of the final weights equals n, i.e. Rescaled weights = n*w/sum(w).

POPULATION SIZE WEIGHTS:
The Population size weight (PWEIGHT) corrects for population size when combining two or more country's data, and is calculated as PWEIGHT=[Population aged 15 years and over]/[(Net sample in data file)*10 000]

Source population figures: Eurostat. For Israel and Russian Federation ESS8 Appendix A5 Population Statistics.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2016-09-16 2017-03-20
Data Collection Mode
Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
Supervision
Please see: http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/essdoc/doc.html?year=2016&ddi=2.3.1.10
Data Collection Notes
Please see: http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/methodology/ess_methodology/data_collection.html

In the ESS, data have to be collected via face-to-face interviews (preferably CAPI) in all participating countries. In each country, the national funding agency appoints a National Coordinator and a survey organisation to implement the survey according to common ESS specifications.

The core scientific team responsible for ESS implementation consisted of:
Rory Fitzgerald (PI and Director, ESS ERIC), Eric Harrison, Lorna Ryan, Ana Villar, Sarah Butt, Salima Douhou, Lizzy Winstone, Virginia Ros, Luca Salini and Elena Sommer: ESS ERIC Headquarters at City, University of London, UK. Geert Loosveldt, Koen Beullens and Katrijn Denies: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. Bjørn Henrichsen, Knut Kalgraff Skjåk, and Kirstine Kolsrud: NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data, Norway. Angelika Scheuer, Achim Koch, Verena Halbherr, Brita Dorer, Stefan Zins and Roberto Briceño-Rosas: GESIS, Germany. Wiebke Weber, Diana Zavala Rojas, Melanie Revilla and Anna de Castellarnau: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Ineke Stoop, Joost Kappelhof and Sander Steijn: The Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP), Netherlands. Brina Malnar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Peter Lynn, University of Essex, United Kingdom.

The dates for data collection in each of the countries are the following:
Field work period: Austria - 19.09.16 - 28.12.16

Field work period: Belgium - 14.09.16 - 31.01.17

Field work period: Czech Republic - 24.10.16 - 19.12.16

Field work period: Estonia - 01.10.16 - 31.01.17

Field work period: Finland - 15.09.16 - 08.03.17

Field work period: France - 10.11.2016 - 11.03.2017

Field work period: Germany - 23.08.16 - 26.03.17

Field work period: Iceland - 02.11.16 - 08.06.16

Field work period: Ireland - 25.11.16 - 08.05.17

Field work period: Israel - 10.09.16 - 08.02.17

Field work period: Netherlands - 01.09.16 - 31.01.17

Field work period: Norway - 22.08.16 - 17.01.17

Field work period: Poland - 07.11.16 - 22.02.17

Field work period: Russian Federation - 03.01.17 - 19.03.17

Field work period: Slovenia - 21.09.16 - 11.01.16

Field work period: Sweden - 26.08.16 - 10.02.17

Field work period: Switzerland - 01.09.16-02.03.17

Field work period: United Kingdom - 01.09.16 - 20.03.17
Data Collectors
Name
Austria - IFES Institut für empirische Sozialforschung
Belgium - Kantar TNS, Broekstraat 49-53, 1000 Brussel
Czech Republic - ppm factum research s.r.o. Office Park Nové Butovice / A Bucharova 1281/2 158 00 Praha 13 Czech Republic
Estonia - Statistics Estonia, Tatari 51, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia
Finland - Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus), FI-00022 Statistics Finland (Helsinki)
France - GfK-ISL CRF - 40 rue Pasteur - CS 900004 - 92156 SURESNES Cedex Tel : + 33 1 74 18 60 00
Germany - infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft GmbH
Iceland - The Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) of the University of Iceland Félagsvísindastofnun Gimli - Sæmundargötu 2 101 Reykjavík Iceland
Ireland - Amárach Research 11 Kingswood Business Centre, Kingswood Road, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24 Ireland
Israel - B.I. Cohen Institute for Public Opinion Research
Netherlands - KANTAR (previously TNS NIPO & Bureau Veldkamp), Grote Bickersstraat 74, 1013 KS Amsterdam, Netherlands
Norway - Statistics Norway Akersveien 26, 0177 Oslo
Poland - Centre of Sociological Research Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Polish Academy of Sciences Nowy Swiat 72 Warsaw Poland
Russian Federation - CESSI (Institute for Comparative Social Research)
Slovenia - University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Center
Sweden - Ipsos Observer Sweden, St Göransgatan 63, Box 12236, 102 26 Stockholm
Switzerland - M.I.S. Trend SA, Lausanne, Switzerland
United Kingdom - National Centre for Social Research

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
Austria - structured questionnaires in German

Belgium - structured questionnaires in Dutch, French

Czech Republic - structured questionnaires in Czech

Estonia - structured questionnaires in Estonian, Russian

Finland - structured questionnaires in Finnish, Swedish

France - structured questionnaires in French

Germany - structured questionnaires in German

Iceland - structured questionnaires in Icelandic

Ireland - structured questionnaires in English (we had produced a localised Polish language survey, but all Polish households participated using English)

Israel - structured questionnaires in Hebrew, Arabic and Russian

Netherlands - structured questionnaires in Dutch

Norway - structured questionnaires in Norwegian

Poland - structured questionnaires in Polish

Russian Federation - structured questionnaires in Russian

Slovenia - structured questionnaires in Slovenian

Sweden - structured questionnaires in Swedish

Switzerland - structured questionnaires in German/Swiss-German, French, Italian

United Kingdom - structured questionnaires in English

Data Processing

Data Editing
Please see: http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/essdoc/doc.html?year=2016&ddi=2.3.1.13

Access policy

Access authority
Name Email URL
NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data nsd@nsd.no http://www.nsd.no/english
Contacts
Name Email URL
ESS ERIC Headquarters ess@city.ac.uk http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/about/contact_information.html
NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data essdatasupport@nsd.no
Citation requirements
Citation of data:
European Social Survey Round 8 Data (2016). Data file edition 1.0. NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data, Norway - Data Archive and distributor of ESS data for ESS ERIC

Citation of documentation:
European Social Survey (2016): ESS8 - 2016 Documentation Report. Edition 1.0. Bergen, European Social Survey Data Archive, NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data for ESS ERIC

To ensure that such source attributions are captured for social science bibliographic utilities, citations must appear in the footnotes or in the reference section of publications.
Location of Data Collection
NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data
Archive where study is originally stored
ESS European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC)
http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/data/download.html?r=8
Cost: free

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_ECA_2016_ESS-R8_v01_M
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data Norway's Ministry of Education and Research Documentation and archiving of the study
Development Data Group DECDG World Bank Metadata distribution in the World Bank Microdata Catalog and IHSN Survey Catalog
Date of Metadata Production
2017-10
DDI Document version
- v01 (October 2017)
The metadata was documented by the Norwegian Centre for Research Data. It was downloaded on November 6, 2017 from http://nesstar.ess.nsd.uib.no/webview/index.jsp?v=2&submode=abstract&study=http%3A%2F%2F129.177.90.83%3A80%2Fobj%2FfStudy%2FESS8e01.0&mode=documentation&top=yes by the World Bank Microdata Library documentation team. The dataset and documents were downloaded on November 6, 2017 from http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/data/download.html?r=8

- v02 (November 2017)
Modifications in the study ID and DDI ID were done by the World Bank Microdata Library documentation team to match the standard used by the library and the IHSN Survey Catalog. Some metadata fields were edited, and additional metadata fields were added.