This page provides links to the Questionnaire Development Report, which details the development of each section of the questionnaire, including the recommendations made by academic experts who were consulted during the early planning stages of the ESS.  Chapter 1 provides an overview of the questionnaire development process as a whole.

• Chapter 1: European Social Survey Core Questionnaire Development
• Chapter 2: How to ascertain the socio-structural position of the individual in the society
• Chapter 3: Measuring social exclusion for the ESS core module
• Chapter 4: Media and communications questions
• Chapter 5: Opinions about political issues
• Chapter 6: The measurement of socio-political orientations
• Chapter 7: A proposal for measuring value orientations across nations
• Chapter 8: Shifts in governance
• Chapter 9: Proposal for questions on religious identity
• Chapter 10: Questions about national, subnational and ethnic identity

This paper reports on part of the questionnaire pre-testing process that was carried out prior to the start of Round 1.  The study involved an interaction analysis of interviewers and respondents in the pilot study to identify problematic features of the questionnaire design.