Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.From autumn 1991 to spring 1998, the New Democracies Barometer (NDB) conducted nationwide sample surveys across Central and Eastern Europe. In each of ten countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Belarus and Ukraine) approximately 1,000 respondents were interviewed face-to-face about economic, political and social attitudes and behaviour. The same questions were asked in each country and repeated from year to year, so trends can be analysed across a wide variety of post-Communist societies, and over time. The data are also available from the UK Data Archive under GN 33355 by survey year. Further information on the NDB is available on the CSPP New Democracies Barometer web page.

New Democracies Barometers I and V: Austria, 1991 and 1998 contains the original data and documentation of the surveys in Austria conducted as part of NDB. Austria was included for comparative purposes in two years, 1991 and 1998, with a restricted range of questions.

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The questionnaire covered the following topics: economic activityincomeeconomic evaluationspolitical evaluationstrustsocial capital networksxenophobia, racism, ethnicity and migrationvotingparty preferencesocial topics social structure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Face-to-face interview