Special Eurobarometer 282: Scientific research in the media

The European Commission regularly carries out opinion polls, in order to learn how to motivate European citizens to become more involved in science, research and innovation. For this reason the Directorate-General for Research launched this special Eurobarometer survey to explore what the media could do to achieve this goal. Interviews were conducted face-to-face in people’s homes, in their national language, between the 10th of April and the 15th of May 2007. The analysis firstly inquires into the level of interest in scientific research in the EU population. It then concentrates on citizens’ evaluation of how scientific research is presented in the media. Finally, it explores EU citizens’ preferences and expectations regarding the media’s treatment of this topic. For each theme addressed, our analysis1 looks at the: • European Union as a whole; • Individual countries; • Socio-demographic variables; • Other variables which we systematically cross-tabulated with the results for each question. #####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)