Special Eurobarometer 370: Social Climate

The Special Eurobarometer surveys on the social climate cover 15 areas and asks respondents to assess, for each of these areas, the current situation, how the situation has evolved over the past five years and how they expect it to change over the coming year. Three waves have been conducted: the first wave was conducted in 2009 (Special EB 315), the second wave in 2010 (Special EB 349) and the third wave in 2011 (Special EB 370) . Even though the impact of the crisis is still being felt, overall some improvement has been observed in 2011.
Levels of optimism and the perception of change are assessed, alongside the evolution of opinion from the last waves of research. The survey consists of groups of questions, which break down as follows: 1. The first group concerns the personal situation of the respondents including their satisfaction with life in general, with the area where they live, with their personal job situation and with the financial situation of their households. 2. The second set covers the general situation of the country and includes the cost of living, the affordability of energy and of housing, the quality of public administration, and the general employment and economic situation. 3. The third set focuses on social protection and social inclusion in the country and contains questions on health care provision, pensions, unemployment benefits, the way inequalities and poverty are addressed and relations between people from different cultural or religious backgrounds.

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