A new version of the ESS5 integrated file (edition 3.5) was published on 24 November 2023.

The new release is due to some corrections in data from Cyprus, Hungary, Lithuania and Norway. The analysis weight (anweight) has also been added.

For more information, see version information for the ESS5 integrated file on the ESS Data portal.

An error has been detected in the Lithuanian data related to variable UEMP5YR ("Any period of unemployment and work seeking within last 5 years") in Lithuania.

The deposited and published variable is simply a duplicate of UEMP12M ("Any period of unemployment and work seeking lasted 12 months or more").

The ESS Data Archive is liaising with the Lithuanian national coordinator for ESS at the time of ESS5 in order to be able to correct the variable for future updates of the integrated ESS5 data file.

In the meantime, we advise our users to set the variable UEMP5YR to system missing for Lithuanian records in the data set.

The ESS Data and Documentation section has been updated with a cumulative data file for the first nine 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.

All rounds of the ESS have been updated in a major upgrade of the ESS data and documentation 01.12.18. For an overview of the changes in variables and country data, see version notes for ESS1, ESS2, ESS3, ESS4, ESS5, ESS6, ESS7 and ESS8 respectively.

The ESS Cumulative Data Wizard, where users can customise their own subsets of data in different formats, will be updated with all eight rounds of the ESS within the next two weeks.

The Multilevel Data resource was updated on the 26th of June 2017.

In this update, survey data from ESS7 was added to the resource, alongside the already published data from ESS4, ESS5 and ESS6. The existing categories of macro data (demography, economy, education, health, crime and political institutions) were expanded with new variables and more recent data to match the ESS round 7 survey data. In addition contextual data concerning immigration added to complement the ESS7 rotating module on that topic.

In addition the ESS4, ESS5 and ESS6 individual level data have been updated to the newest editions available.

The ESS Data and Documentation section has been updated with a cumulative data file for the first seven 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.

All rounds of the ESS have been updated in a major upgrade of the ESS data and documentation 01.12.16. For an overview of the changes in variables and country data, see version notes for ESS1, ESS2, ESS3, ESS4, ESS5, ESS6 and ESS7 respectively.

The ESS Cumulative Data Wizard, where users can customise their own subsets of data in different formats, will be updated with all seven rounds of the ESS within the next ten days.

The Austrian contact form data for ESS round 5 was released 06.05.16. The Austrian contact form data file is accessible as a separate country file from the Austria section on the ESS5 - 2010 Data Download pages.

The Austrian data for ESS round 5 was released 14 December 2015. The release also includes Austrian interviewer and parents' occupation data. All data files are accessible under country files on the ESS5 - 2010 Data Download page.

The variable F31 NACER2 for Greece has been coded according to NACE Rev.1.1 instead of Rev.2. The variable will be removed from the integrated file in a future update of the ESS5 data, and published in a country-specific file for Greece.