Special Eurobarometer 273: European social reality

Between the 17th of November and the 19th of December 2006, 26.755 EU citizensaged 15 and over living in the Member States and the two countries that were atthat time about to join the EU: Bulgaria and Romania were interviewed. The survey was commissioned by the Directorate-General Communication of the EuropeanCommission and was carried out by TNS Opinion & Social, a consortium formed byTNS and EOS Gallup Europe. This report studies successively the various dimensions covered by the survey. ♦ First of all, we shall focus on life in the European Union as perceived by European Union citizens, looking at personal happiness, life satisfaction, family life, work, leisure time, voluntary work and politics, issues that together form the cornerstone of European society. ♦ In the second part of this report we examine the relationship between people’s personal future and the collective future. The survey shows that these two futures are perceived very differently by citizens. We also look at life in the European Union for future generations. ♦ The third part of this report focuses on two important social realities of the European Union: firstly poverty and social exclusion and secondly, immigration. ♦ Lastly, we focus on some choices and solutions: what should be done to guarantee the financing of pensions, how the social welfare system is evaluated in each country and can it serve as a model for other countries and should all students have equal access to higher education? #####The results by volumes are distributed as follows: * Volume A: Countries * Volume AA: Groups of countries * Volume A' (AP): Trends * Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries * Volume B: EU/socio-demographics * Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics * Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: [https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)