Applicant and Candidate Countries Eurobarometer

On the track to EU membership

In October 2001, the European Commission launched a series of surveys in the 13 countries that at this time were applying for European Union membership, the 13 Candidate/Applicant Countries: Bulgaria, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. A pilot survey (AC-EB 00) was conducted in 2000.

Until the EU enlargement in 2004 representative national samples (n=1000) were drawn up to five times a year and interviewed face-to-face in the respective national languages. Unlike former Central and Eastern Eurobarometer, the Candidate Countries Eurobarometer included selected trend questions and topical modules, which were to a large extent comparable to the Standard series.

The main survey results are published by the European Commission in official survey reports.

The archive data service products

The data received from the principal investigator are checked and formatted in accordance with archival standards.

The data are comprehensively documented on study and variable level and completely published for online retrieval and data access via the GESIS search and Data Catalogue download.
Each dataset (version) is persistently identified and registered with a unique digital object identifier (doi). The corresponding URL (http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.nnnnn) will always lead you to the dataset location in the GESIS data catalogue.
Please see here for the general data access regulations at GESIS.

Release History & Errata

For details click on the DOI

2016-04-05

Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2002.1 (ZA4153)
GESIS archive edition, v1.1.0 (2016-03-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.12465

2016-03-15

Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2004.1 (ZA4246)
GESIS archive edition, v1.0.1 (2016-03-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.12468

Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.5 (ZA4240)
GESIS archive edition, v1.0.1 (2016-03-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.12467

Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.1 (ZA4159)
GESIS archive edition, v1.0.1 (2016-03-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.12466

Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2002.1 (ZA4153)
GESIS archive edition, v1.0.1 (2016-03-04)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.12465

Applicant Countries Eurobarometer 2000 (ZA3977)
GESIS archive edition, v2.0.0 (2016-03-08)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.12074

2014-08-11

Applicant Countries EB 00 (1-2/2000)
Pilot Study
1st archive release, v1.0.0
doi:10.4232/1.12018

2006-01-25/26

Last Archive update for all Candidate Countries Eurobarometer.

For details see study profiles .

Contact persons

Eurobarometer

Dr. Boris Heizmann & Serap Firat

eurobarometer-dataservice[at]gesis•org