ESS round 6 - 2012. Personal wellbeing, Democracy
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Description
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically-driven multi-country survey, which has been administered in over 30 countries to date. Its three aims are, firstly – to monitor and interpret changing public attitudes and values within Europe and to investigate how they interact with Europe's changing institutions, secondly - to advance and consolidate improved methods of cross-national survey measurement in Europe and beyond, and thirdly - to develop a series of European social indicators, including attitudinal indicators.
In the sixth round, the survey covers 29 countries and employs the most rigorous methodologies. It is funded via the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme, the European Science Foundation and national funding bodies in each country.
The survey involves strict random probability sampling, a minimum target response rate of 70% and rigorous translation protocols. The hour-long face-to-face interview includes questions on a variety of core topics repeated from previous rounds of the survey and also two modules developed for Round Six covering Europeans’ Understandings and Evaluations of Democracy and Personal and Social Wellbeing (the latter is a partial repeat of a module from round 3).
Distributions0
APIs providing this dataset1
European Social Survey API- parquet
- csv
- spss_sav
- stata_dta
- parquet
- csv
- spss_sav
- stata_dta
- Description:
API for accessing data files from the European Social Survey. The ESS API is currently in beta. It currently consists of a single endpoint, for downloading data files
- Endpoint:
- URL:
- https://api.ess.sikt.no/docs
- Description:
- Documentation:
- Not provided
Relations to other resources
| ESS6 - data from Interviewer's questionnaire, edition 2.1 | Public access | |
| ESS6 - test variables from Supplementary questionnaire, edition 1.0 | Public access | |
| ESS6 - data from Contact forms, edition 2.0 | Public access | |
| ESS6 - integrated file, edition 2.7 | Public access | |
| ESS6 - interview time data, edition 1.1 | Public access | |
| ESS6 - data from Media claims, edition 4.0 | Public access |
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Distributions0
APIs providing this dataset1
European Social Survey API- parquet
- csv
- spss_sav
- stata_dta
- parquet
- csv
- spss_sav
- stata_dta
- Description:
API for accessing data files from the European Social Survey. The ESS API is currently in beta. It currently consists of a single endpoint, for downloading data files
- Endpoint:
- URL:
- https://api.ess.sikt.no/docs
- Description:
- Documentation:
- Not provided
Contact information
- Contact point:
- Website:
- Not provided
- Email:
- essdatasupport@sikt.no
- Telephone:
- Not provided
About the data
- Language:
- English
- Content providers:
- Roger Jowell
- Provenance:
- Not provided
- Update frequency:
- Not provided
- First issued:
This date indicates when the data in this dataset was first released. It may have happened before the dataset was published on data.norge.no.
- August 19, 2025
- Last updated:
- Not provided
- Geographical scope:
- Temporal scope:
- From:
- August 14, 2012
- To:
- December 20, 2013
- Conforms to:
Reference to an implementation rule or other specification that forms the basis for the dataset.
- Not provided
- Quality annotations:
- Not provided
Applicable legislation
Concepts used in the dataset
References
- Has part:
- ESS6 - test variables from Supplementary questionnaire, edition 1.0
- Has part:
- ESS6 - interview time data, edition 1.1
- Has part:
- ESS6 - data from Contact forms, edition 2.0
- Has part:
- ESS6 - data from Interviewer's questionnaire, edition 2.1
- Has part:
- ESS6 - integrated file, edition 2.7
- Has part:
- ESS6 - data from Media claims, edition 4.0
- Related resources:
Fees
About this dataset
- Publisher:
- Sikt - kunnskapssektorens tjenesteleverandør
- Published:
This date indicates when the dataset was harvested by data.norge.no. It may have been available earlier elsewhere.
- February 3, 2026
- Last updated:
- March 13, 2026
- Landing page:
- https://ess.sikt.no/en/study/7ccf7f30-fd1a-470a-9b90-4c91b0bc7438/
- Documentation:
- Not provided
- Dataset type:
- Not provided
- Metadata Quality:
Metadata quality is an indicator of how well the datasets are described using metadata.
- Sufficient (34%)
- URI:
Themes
Keywords
- Information society
- Social behaviour and attitudes
- DEMOGRAPHY
- Cultural and national identity
- DISCRIMINATION
- Language and linguistics
- DEMOCRACY
- WELL-BEING (SOCIETY)
- SOCIAL VALUES
- SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS
- Minorities
- Political ideology
- Political behaviour and attitudes
- SOCIAL EXCLUSION
- Equality, inequality and social exclusion
- General health and well-being
- Social conditions and indicators
- POLITICS
- RELIGION
- Religion and values
- Media
- NATIONAL IDENTITY
- TRUST
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