1. Eurobarometer Symposium @ GESIS
GESIS Research Data Center
Eurobarometer GESIS
Four Decades of Surveying Europe – Perspectives on Academic Research with the European Commission’s Eurobarometer Surveys
GESIS, Cologne, July 10, 2015

2. Open access to Eurobarometer micro data is provided by the European Commission since the very beginning in the 1970s
Jacques-René Rabier , founder father of the Eurobarometer, at the 35th Eurobarometer Anniversary conference in Paris, 2008.

3. Eurobarometer survey implementation
Standard & Special Eurobarometer … prior to this „Faits et Opinions“ and other institutes
Flash Eurobarometer
Candidate Countries Eurobarometer
2001 – 2004
Since 2011 (Flash EB 331 ff.)
Since 2004 (EB 62 ff.)
The GALLUP Organization
Central & Eastern Eurobarometer
(EB 54-61)
(Flash EB )
(EB 32-53)
(up to Flash EB 180)
1994 – 1997
1990 – 1993 other institutes

4. Eurobarometer Archive Data Service
Four decades of data curation and providing access to micro data, codebooks, questionnaires …

5. Eurobarometer Archive Data Holdings
188 Standard & Special Eurobarometer
13 Candidate Countries Eurobarometer
8 Central & Eastern Eurobarometer
409 Flash Eurobarometer
5 Cumulative trend files
Mannheim EB Trendfile
Public Understanding of Science
CEEB Trendfile
European Elections Studies 1989 and 1994

7. Standard & Special Eurobarometer Candidate Countries Eurobarometer
188 13
8 409 3
Standard & Special Eurobarometer
Candidate Countries Eurobarometer
Central & Eastern Eurobarometer
Flash Eurobarometer
Cumulative trend files
Mannheim EB Trendfile
Public Understanding of Science
CEEB Trendfile

8. Eurobarometer Archive Data Downloads
Comparability of statistics across archives can only be assumed from 2012 onwards. ICPSR figures until 2011 are rough estimations based on the number of downloads of any kind of files.

9. Eurobarometer Archive Data Users
GESIS figures refer to data downloaders only; ICPSR figures refer to downloaders of data sets and/or codebooks or other kinds of documentation files. ICPSR figures for 2010/2011 are rough estimations based on downloads of any kind of EB files. All recordings until 2007 are incomplete.

10. ZACAT Online Analysis

11. Recent articles related to EUROBAROMETER
Total result: peer-reviewed articles
Search in title and abstract (06/2015)

12. Citation index for articles related to EUROBAROMETER
142 citations per year (average)
Search in title and abstract (06/2015)

14. Peer reviewed publications based on Eurobarometer data
GESIS test installation in the context of a Leibniz Association libraries’ project
Peer reviewed publications based on Eurobarometer data
Over articles in peer-reviewed journals with reference to Eurobarometer
Search in title, abstract and full text (06/2015)

15. Tracking data and publications effectively through persistent identification and citation
Inglehart, Ronald, and Jacques-Rene Rabier. European Communities Study, ICPSR07260-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor],
European Commission, Brussels: Eurobarometer 82.3 (2014). TNS Opinion, Brussels [producer]. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5932, dataset version (2015), doi: /