Special Eurobarometer 350: The European Social Fund

The key findings of this survey are that Europeans:
♦ Want the European Union to address unemployment as a priority for the EU (63%);
♦ Consider poverty as the second EU priority (42%);
♦ See job creation as the priority area for the investment of EU resources (56%);
♦ Accept the ESF’s commitment to focus on the EU as a whole (59%), rather than only on the poorer regions (27%);
♦ Are now more likely to have heard of the ESF (40%) than a year ago (33%).
However, very few Europeans actually know what the ESF does (13%).

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