Special Eurobarometer 161: The Future of Pension systems

This public opinion survey was carried out at the request of the Directorate-General Employment and Social Affairs and organised by the Public Opinion Analysis Sector of the Directorate-General Press and Communication.
The Eurobarometer survey 56.1 covers a broad range of issues and aspects relevant to pension policy: perceptions of present and future living standards of pensioners, data on the income composition of pensioner households, opinions on goals and principles of pension systems (and the underlying value orientations), opinions on more specific policy proposals to cope with the problems of financing pensions, and opinions on the transition from work to retirement.
It was conducted in all the Member at States of the European Union between September 17 and October 26, 2001, under the general coordination of the European Opinion Research Group EEIG in Brussels.

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics

Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer