Data availability
It is Eurofound policy to make the questionnaires and datasets freely available to the public. Questionnaires are made available upon completion of the survey fieldwork. Survey datasets are made available no later than two years after fieldwork completion.
Questionnaires
The latest available questionnaires are:
- European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) 2010
- European Company Survey (ECS) 2009
- European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) 2007
Links to the questionnaires for earlier editions of the survey can be found on the pages for the specific survey waves.
Datasets
The Eurofound datasets and accompanying materials are stored with the UK Data Archive (UKDA) in Essex, UK and promoted online via the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) International.
The data is available free of charge to all those who intend to use it for non-commercial purposes. Requests for use for commercial purposes will be forwarded to Eurofound for authorisation.
In order to download the data, you must register with the ESDS if you are not from a UK university or college: for more information on this please consult the ESDS page on how to access data.
Once you are registered with the system the quickest way to find Eurofound data is to type in the words 'European Foundation' as the 'Data Creator/Funder' in the Catalogue search page. Once Eurofound's surveys are listed then you can click on the name of the relevant survey for more information and download using your user name and password.
The latest datasets available are:
- NEW European Working Conditions Survey 2010
- European Company Survey 2009
- European Quality of Life Survey 2007
For further information, please contact Sophia MacGoris.