The Infra4NextGen project is co-ordinated by the European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC) and includes CESSDA ERIC, the European Values Study (EVS) and the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) at its core. The project is providing data, tools and training to support the NextGenerationEU themes – digital, equal, green, healthy, and strong – and European youth policy.
Data from the first two waves of the web-first panel survey (CRONOS-3) – implemented as part of the Infra4NextGen project – is now available. The waves were conducted using a mixed-mode approach from September-October 2024 (wave 1) and November-December 2024 (wave 2).
The data was collected in 11 countries for each of the five themes of the NextGenerationEU recovery plan: Make it… Digital, Equal, Green, Healthy and Strong. Respondents recruited on the back of the European Social Survey (ESS) rounds 10 and 11 (2020-24) were invited to complete the survey online or using paper self-completion questionnaires. Each wave includes 90 questions – 18 on each NextGenEU theme – and takes around 30 minutes to complete. The third iteration of the CRONOS panel is being delivered via the Horizon Europe-funded project, Infra4NextGen. Questions for the panel were selected for inclusion by academic experts and research fellows appointed to each of the five themes and finalised by the CRONOS fieldwork team. Panellists aged 18 and above were given an unconditional incentive of €5£5.
Data is now available to view or download from all 11 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. Weights are also available.
The Wave 1 questionnaire included items on poverty and inequalities, climate change and energy, climate policies and educational opportunities. There were also questions on using the internet, digital activities and experiences of using various medical services.
Wave 2 focused on the environment and climate change, income inequality, welfare and respondents’ attitudes towards their own income. Questions on immigration, online healthcare services, access to and use of medicines, cancer risk, in-person and digital personal relationships, job satisfaction, and work-life balance were also included.
Data is also accessible via the Variable Viewer tool which allows users to view weighted data for each of the questions asked in a bar graph, map, data table which are all downloadable. The data from the first two CRONOS-3 waves can also be downloaded free of charge in CSV, SPSS and Stata formats. The ESS Data Portal has also been adapted so that data can be accessed for each of the five themes: Digital, Equal, Green, Healthy and Strong. The data collected via the panel survey will supplement work being undertaken on analysing existing survey data on each of the five themes.