Special Eurobarometer 230: Public Opinion in Europe on Financial Services

The Directorate-General Health and Consumer Protection wished to once again commission a poll on Europeans views on consumers’ ownership and use of financial services. Interviews were conducted face-to-face in people’s homes in their national language between February 9 and March 20, 2005.
For each theme addressed, our analysis2 looks at the:
- European Union as a whole;
- Individual countries;
- Socio-demographic variables;
- Other variables which we systematically cross-tabulated with the results for each question include: payment for a significant purchase in respondent’s country of residence, referred to as "payment for significant purchase" (results for Q5a), ownership of bank/credit cards (results for Q9a) as well as trust in advice given by financial institutions (results for Q13.3).

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