For France, variable HINCTNTA (F41) has been deposited with incorrectly coded income categories. See below for suggested temporary solution to the problem, based on a recoding of the most recent version (as of 25th of June 2014) of the integrated file in SPSS and Stata (in this example, stored locally in folder "ESS" on the C: drive):

SPSS:
get file 'C:\ESS\ESS6e02.sav'.
do if (cntry = "FR").
recode hinctnta (5=1) (9=2) (1=3) (7=4) (3=5) (10=6) (6=7) (2=9) (4=10).
end if.
execute.

STATA:
use "C:\ESS\ESS6e02.dta"
recode hinctnta (5=1) (9=2) (1=3) (7=4) (3=5) (10=6) (6=7) (2=9) (4=10) if cntry=="FR"

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

A new edition of data (2.0) from contact forms for ESS round 6 is now available for download in the ESS6 - 2012 Data download section.

Edition 2.0 includes data from 28 of the countries participating in ESS6, with data from Albania, Denmark, France, Italy, Lithuania and Ukraine added to the integrated contact form file. Changes from edition 1.0 to 2.0 are described in more detail in the "Annotations for integrated contact files ESS6CFe02" document included in the data file zip folder.

Edition 2.0 of the ESS6 Media claims data was published on the 20th of May 2014.

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

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

The second edition of data and documentation for ESS round 6 was published on the 14th of May 2014.

Edition 2.0 includes all 29 countries participating in ESS6, with data from Albania, France, Italy, Lithuania and Ukraine added to the integrated file. Note also that a corrected edition of the Hungarian data has been reinstated in the integrated file after being removed from the previous ESS6 edition 1.2. Changes from edition 1.2 to 2.0 are described in more detail in the ESS6 Version notes.

ESS6 edition 2.0 data and the updated ESS6 - 2012 Documentation Report (edition 2.0), are available from the data download pages.

Corrected design weights for Portugal have been published. Until future releases of ESS6 data, these design weights should replace the erroneous weights in the current edition (1.2) of the ESS6 integrated file (for CNTRY="PT" ). The weights are available from the ESS6 - 2012 Data Download page.

This recommendation applies to Portuguese ESS6 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.

The variable DWEIGHT for Slovenia in edition 1.2 (and previous editions) of the ESS6 integrated file is incorrect. As sample units are selected with equal probability, DWEIGHT should equal 1 for all Slovenian respondents in the data set. This mistake will be corrected in future releases of ESS6 data. In the meantime, we advise our users to recode this variable accordingly (for SPSS syntax example, see below. In this example, note that the integrated file is stored locally in folder "ESS" on the C: drive):

GET file 'C:\ESS\ESS6e01_2.sav'.
DO IF (cntry="SI").
RECODE dweight (Lowest thru Highest=1).
END IF.
EXECUTE.

Edition 1.0 of the ESS6 media claims data was published on the 19th of February 2014.

The first edition includes media claims for a total of 17 countries, including Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Kosovo, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

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

A new edition (1.2) of data for Hungary for ESS round 6 was published on the 5th of February 2014.

This new release of Hungarian ESS data was caused by extensive errors in the previous edition of the data, leading to all data records for Hungary to be removed from the integrated file. The corrected data for Hungary is, pending future releases of the integrated file, published as a separate country file and available for download on the Hungarian country pages. Until the next release of the integrated ESS6 data file, the Hungarian country file may be merged into the main file by using the following syntaxes:

SPSS:

* Syntax for merging Hungarian ESS6 data (edition 1.2) with integrated data file (edition 1.2).
* Note: Remember to specify correct path

Add files
/file="PATH\ESS6e01_2.sav"
/file="PATH\ESS6HU.sav".
exe.
sort cases by cntry idno.
exe.

STATA:

* Syntax for merging Hungarian ESS6 data (edition 1.2) with integrated data file (edition 1.2).
* Note: Remember to specify correct path

cd "C:\PATH"
use "ESS6e01_2.dta", clear
append using "ESS6HU.dta"

A new edition (1.2) of data for ESS round 6 was published on the 13th of January 2014.

The new release is due to extensive errors in the Hungarian data, leading to all data records for Hungary to be removed. We strongly recommend our users not to deploy previous versions (versions 1.0 and 1.1) of the Hungarian ESS6 data. Corrected data for Hungary will be published in the next ESS6 release. Edition 1.2 also includes a corrected regional variable for the Russian Federation. The corrections are described in more detail in the ESS6 Version notes.

ESS6 edition 1.2 data and the updated ESS6 Data Documentation Report (edition 1.3), are available from the data download pages.

We strongly recommend our users not to deploy the Hungarian ESS6 data, as numerous errors have been detected in the main data file. The Hungarian records will be removed from the ESS6 integrated file in the near future and replaced with a corrected version of the data later this Spring.