Special Eurobarometer 296: Discrimination in the European Union: Perceptions, Experiences and Attitudes

In anticipation of this Year of Equal Opportunities for All, the European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunity Opportunities commissioned a survey about discrimination and inequality in Europe, conducted in the summer of 2006.
This current report represents a follow-up to this survey, tracking how perceptions and opinion in this field have changed in the intervening year. Several new questions are also asked in the current survey, for example dealing with the subject of 'multiple discrimination'.
Both surveys were carried out by TNS Opinion & Social network – this current one between February 18th and March 22nd, 2008.
In the report the six legally prohibited forms of discrimination in the EU are examined: discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnic origin, religion or beliefs, age, disability and sexual orientation. The report proceeds with the following structure:
♦ Setting the context, including whether people think of themselves as belonging to a minority group and the diversity of respondents’ social circles.
♦ Perceptions of discrimination covering attitudes to different groups and the perceived extent of discrimination in Europe.
♦ Measurements of discrimination in the EU, whether directly experienced by respondents or witnessed as happening to a third party.
♦ Assessments of efforts made to combat discrimination.
♦ Knowledge of one’s rights as a potential victim of discrimination.
♦ Views on equal opportunities in employment.
♦ A detailed analysis of discrimination on individual grounds.
♦ An examination of discrimination on multiple grounds.

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