European Social Survey 5th round

The European Social Survey is conducted by surveying a representative sample of approximately 1,500 participants in each member state using the same questionnaire and a precisely determined methodology. The questionnaire consists of a central module that is applied in every two-year examination and an additional module that changes with regard to the current importance of certain socio-political topics. A field survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,649 participants (conducted from September to December 2011) collected internationally comparable data for Croatia on the following topics: media use and trust in people, interest in politics, trust in state institutions, participation in political and public life, political orientation and preference for specific parties, social and political orientations; subjective life satisfaction and feeling of happiness, social exclusion, religious orientation and religiosity, experienced discrimination, national and ethnic identity and socio-demographic profile of households and participants. In addition to data on these topics, which are continuously monitored by the European Social Survey, in this fifth round of EDI, data on two additional topics were also collected: – trust in the police and the judiciary (including cooperation with the police and the judiciary, contact with the police and attitudes towards punishment) and – work, family and well-being (including the impact of the recession on household and work, job security, well-being, unemployment experiences and work-life balance). Formed databases with all collected data were, after control carried out by the Norwegian Social Sciences Data Services, stored on the ESS website http://ess.nsd.uib.no and thus available for analysis and international comparisons to all interested researchers.