The industry variable NACER2 (F31) for Denmark in ESS round 6 contains some errors of classification, and should only be used with great caution. Respondents in the sectors "Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing" or "Mining And Quarrying" have been miscoded into other categories. This means that the following codes are missing:
1 = 'Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities'
2 = 'Forestry and logging'
3 = 'Fishing and aquaculture'
5 = 'Mining of coal and lignite'
6 = 'Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas'
7 = 'Mining of metal ores'
8 = 'Other mining and quarrying'
9 = 'Mining support service activities'

The variable will be corrected in future releases of the ESS6 data.

The answer categories 1 "Employee" and 2 "Self-employed" were erroneously reversed in the Italian questionnaire so that 1 means "Self-employed" and 2 means "Employee". A recoded version of the variables EMPRF14 (F53) and EMPRM14 (F57) for Italy will be available in future releases of the ESS6 data.

See below for suggested temporary solution to the problem, based on a recoding of edition 2.1 of the ESS6 Integrated file in SPSS (in this example, stored locally in folder "ESS" on the C: drive):

GET FILE 'C:\ESS\ESS6e02_1.sav '.
DO IF cntry="IT".
RECODE emprf14 (1=2) (2=1).
RECODE emprm14 (1=2) (2=1).
END IF.
EXECUTE.

A new edition of ESS6 Sample design data files (2.0) for Belgium and Portugal is now available for download in the country sub-sections on the ESS6 - 2012 Data Download page.

The new release is due to amendments made in variable “Primary sampling unit” (PSU).

A new edition of ESS6 parents' occupation data (2.1) is now available for download in the ESS6 - 2012 Data Download section.

The new release is due to amendments made in value labels of variables ISCO08F / ISCO08M (“Father's / Mother's occupation when respondent was 14 years old”).

All rounds of the ESS have been updated in a major upgrade of the ESS data and documentation 26.11.14. For an overview of the changes in variables and country data, see version notes for ESS1, ESS2, ESS3, ESS4, ESS5 and ESS6 respectively.

The ESS Data and Documentation section has been updated with a cumulative data file for the first six rounds of the ESS. The cumulative data are available from the ESS Cumulative Data Wizard, where users can customise their own subsets of data in different formats. The ESS Cumulative Data Wizard gives access to cumulative data from countries that have been included in the integrated ESS files in two or more rounds. All variables that have been asked in more than one round are included in the cumulative data file.

In this update, survey data from ESS6 was added to the resource, alongside the already published ESS4 and ESS5 data. The existing categories of macro data (demography, economy, education, health and crime) were expanded with new variables and more recent data to match the ESS round 6 survey data. In addition contextual data concerning political systems have been added to complement the ESS6 rotating module on Democracy.

In addition the ESS4 and ESS5 individual level data have been updated to the newest versions available, including post stratification weights.

Sample design data files (SDDF) were published 2nd of October 2014 and are available in SAS, STATA and SPSS format, along with a PDF file describing the structure and use of the SDDFs.

The files are available from the ESS6 - 2012 Data download section for the following countries: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Kingdom. 

Edition 3.0 of the ESS6 Media claims data was published on the 16th of September 2014.

In the third edition, media claims from Lithuania were added to a data set already including claims for Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

Data and documentation are accessible from the Methodology section and the ESS6 download page.

The first edition of test data (edition 1.0) from supplementary questionnaire for ESS round 6 was released on July 2nd, 2014.

Edition 1.0 is available on the ESS6 - 2012 Data Download page and includes data from all 29 countries participating in ESS6.