Over 1,100,000 individual-level public opinion records from all EU member states, spanning from the mid-1970s to the present. It was created by Simon Hix to analyze the relationship between political preferences and shifting support for European integration.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between individual political preferences and support for European integration over time.
- Model the transactional evaluation of EU policy outputs as a driver of integration support using individual-level opinion data.
- Investigate the reversal of support patterns between left and right political groups from the 1980s to the 2020s.
- Measure the left-right policy location of EU legislative outputs and correlate it with public opinion trends.
Strengths
- Contains over 1,100,000 individual-level observations.
- Covers a temporal range of almost 50 years, from the mid-1970s to the present.
- Includes data from all European Union member states.
Limitations
- Specific column names and data structure are unknown, limiting detailed analytical planning.
- The raw description focuses on a specific theoretical argument, which may introduce a framing bias in the data's presentation.
Provenance
- Source
- Comparative Political Studies Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Individual-level public opinion data collection.
- Time Range
- From the mid-1970s to the present.
- Freshness
- Last updated on 2026-01-27.
- Geography
- All European Union member states.