European Social Survey (ESS)

The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe every two years since 2002/03.

It was developed to offer academics and researchers a reliable dataset that measures the attitudes and behaviours of the general population both across and within European countries.

The ESS was awarded European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) status in 2013. The ESS ERIC Headquarters are hosted by, City, University of London (UK).

Purpose: The overall purpose and objective of the data collection.

 to chart stability and change in social structure, conditions and attitudes in Europe and to interpret how Europe’s social, political and moral fabric is changing  to achieve and spread higher standards of rigour in cross-national research in the social sciences, including for example, questionnaire design and pre-testing, sampling, data collection, reduction of bias and the reliability of questions  to introduce soundly-based indic

Coverage: 38 European countries (including Ireland) have participated in at least one round since 2002/03; 32 countries (including Ireland) are participating in ESS Round 10 (2020-22).

Data and Resources

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Additional Info

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Contact points
Contact point 1
URI
Name
European Social Survey ERIC
Email
data@european-social-surv.ie
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Publisher
Publisher 1
URI
Name
European Social Survey ERIC
Email
URL
Type
http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority
Identifier
Creator
Homepage
Landing page
Release date January 1, 2001
Modification date September 19, 2024
Version
Version notes
Identifier NDC-0030
Frequency http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/QUARTERLY
Provenance

Primarily designed as a time series, the questionnaire is asked to a newly selected representative sample of adults aged 15+ in each country, chosen using strict probability methods. Up until Round 10, data collection took place during face-to-face interviews only every two years.

Due to the pandemic affecting Round 10 data collection, self-completion data collection methods (online and postal questionnaires) have been completed in some countries.
Type
Temporal coverage
Temporal coverage 1
Start
January 1, 2001
End
August 30, 2025
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Spatial coverage
Spatial coverage 1
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL
Label
Ireland
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Bounding Box
Centroid
Spatial resolution in meters
Access rights http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/RESTRICTED
Other identifier
Theme
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
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Health category
  1. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/public-health
  2. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/ehr
Health theme
  1. http://health.europa.eu/theme/infectious-disease
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Minimum typical age 15
Maximum typical age 75
Number of records 23262
Number of records for unique individuals. 488779
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