The first edition of data from contact forms for ESS round 6 is now available for download in the ESS6 - 2012 Data download section.

Edition 1.0 includes data for Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

The variable labels for the Russian regions in the REGION variable are partly erroneous in edition 1.1 of the ESS6-2012 data file.

Correct variable labels should be:

RU11 - Central FO
RU12 - North-Western FO
RU13 - Volga FO
RU14 - South FO
RU15 - Ural FO
RU16 - Siberian FO
RU17 - Far East FO
RU18 - North Caucasian FO

The error will be corrected in future editions of the ESS data.

Corrected design weights for Israel, Slovakia and Turkey have been published. Until future releases of ESS4 data, these design weights should replace the erroneous weights currently (ESS4 edition 4.1) aligned with the Israeli (CNTRY=IL), Slovakian (CNTRY=SK) and Turkish cases (CNTRY="TR") in the data files.

This recommendation applies to Israeli, Slovakian and Turkish ESS4 data accessed from all official europeansocialsurvey.org data distribution channels, including the Cumulative Data Wizard, the Multilevel Data resource as well as the Online Analysis (NESSTAR) resource.

Code 2 ("Folkeskole 9.-10. klasse") in EDLVFDDK and code 213 ("General ISCED 2A, access ISCED 3A general/all 3") in EDULVLFB are overestimated in Danish education variables for respondent's father. 565 of the cases coded 2/213 on EDLVFDDK/EDULVLFB respectively should be recoded to 5 ("Faglig udd. (håndværk, handel, landbrug mv.), F.eks. Faglært")/322 ("Vocational ISCED 3A/3B, access 5B/lower tier 5A") on EDLVFDDK/EDULVLFB. Revised versions of EDLVFDDK and EDULVLFB will be available in future releases of the ESS5 data.

Corrected design weights for Israel and Slovakia have been published. Until future releases of ESS5 data, these design weights should replace the erroneous weights currently (ESS5 edition 3.0) aligned with the Israeli (CNTRY=IL) and Slovakian (CNTRY=SK) cases in the data files.

This recommendation applies to Israeli and Slovakian ESS5 data accessed from all official europeansocialsurvey.org data distribution channels, including the Cumulative Data Wizard, the Multilevel Data resource as well as the Online Analysis (NESSTAR) resource.

A new edition (1.1) of data for ESS round 6 was published on the 29th of November 2013.

The new release is due to errors discovered in variables B26 (GINCDIF), B27 (FREEHMS), D2 (OPTFTR), D3 (PSTVMS), D4 (FLRMS), D6 (FLTEEFF), D8 (WRHPP), D10 (ENJLF), D11 (FLTSD), D16 (DCLVLF), D17 (LCHSHCP), D18 (ACCDNG), D19 (WRBKNRM), D23 (DNGVAL), D24 (NHPFTR), D25 (LOTSGOT), D26 (LFWRS), D27 (FLCLPLA) for Hungary. The data from these variables have been removed for Hungary, pending possible future corrections.

ESS6 edition 1.1 data and the updated ESS6 Data Documentation Report (edition 1.2), are available from the data download pages.

The first edition of data and documentation for ESS round 6 was released 30.10.13.

Edition 1.0 includes Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

Parents' occupation files and interviewer data files have also been released for the countries included in edition 1.0 of the main data file (listed above).

ESS round 6 includes rotating modules on the topics: "Personal and Social Well-Being" (also fielded in ESS round 3) and "Europeans' understandings and evaluations of democracy".

The first edition of data and documentation for ESS round 6 was released 30.10.13.

Edition 1.0 includes Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

Parents' occupation files and interviewer data files have also been released for the countries included in edition 1.0 of the main data file (listed above).

ESS round 6 includes rotating modules on the topics: "Personal and Social Well-Being" (also fielded in ESS round 3) and "Europeans' understandings and evaluations of democracy".

All Israeli respondents in ESS4 and ESS5 have been assigned wrong design weights. New files containing the corrected variable DWEIGHT for Israel have been made available from the ESS4 and ESS5 Data download sections.

Codes 313, 321 and 323 in Estonian country-specific education variables for respondent, partner, father and mother have been mixed up and need recoding in order to properly reflect distribution of education in Estonia. Recoded versions of EDLVDEE/EDLVPDEE/EDLVFDEE/EDLVMDEE will be available in future releases of the ESS5 data.

See below for suggested temporary solution to the problem, based on a recoding of the most recent version (as of 14th of June 2013) of the integrated file in SPSS (in this example, stored locally in folder "ESS" on the C: drive):

GET file 'C:\ESS\ESS5e03.sav'.
DO IF (cntry="EE").
RECODE EDLVDEE EDLVPDEE EDLVFDEE EDLVMDEE (313=321) (321=323) (323=313).
END IF.
EXECUTE.