Special Eurobarometer 185: Lifelong learning : citizens' views

This is the first Eurobarometer survey that asks citizens for their views in a detailed way. Its interesting findings confirm the political goals set at the European Council Summit in Lisbon and they reinforce the importance of the work that is being done at European level on lifelong learning and e-learning.
The survey covers residents of all Member States as well as Iceland and Norway, with the relevant country nationality and aged 15 years and over. A new sample is drawn for each Eurobarometer survey. It is representative
of the population aged 15+ in terms of gender, age, NUTS2 region and urbanisation size. The average number of people interviewed in each country was 1 000, except in Germany (2 144 interviews), the United Kingdom (1 439),
Luxembourg (615) and Iceland (628). Altogether, 18 227 interviews were conducted, including 16 567 in the European Union. All interviews were carried out face to face (18) in people’s homes and in the appropriate national language. Up to four recalls were made. The 15 main questions were worded in a format specific to Eurobarometer
surveys. Two types of questions were used: multiple-choice questions, where the respondent is asked to give one or up to three answers depending on the question; and a list of items for which interviewees are asked to respond to each. In all cases, respondents can reply that they have no idea (coded as
‘don’t know’).

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