A small number of respondents (N=6 [ALCWKDY] and N=3 [ALCWKND]) were assigned wrong missing values (9999 rather than 8888) on the harmonised alcohol consumption variables for Norway in the main data file. The correct Norwegian data for these two variables is available in the integrated alcohol consumption data file. The variables for Norway will be corrected in future updates of the integrated ESS7 data file. In the meantime, we advise our users to update the data by replacing ALCWKDY and ALCWKND in the ESS7 - integrated file, edition 2.0 with ALCWKDY and ALCWKND in ESS7 - alcohol consumption variables, edition 2.0 (for SPSS syntax example, see below. In this example, note that the data files are stored locally in folder "ESS" on the C: drive):

GET FILE "C:\ESS\ESS7e02.sav" /DROP alcwkdy alcwknd.
MATCH FILES
/FILE=*
/FILE="C:\ESS\ESS7ALCe02.sav"
/BY cntry idno.
EXE.
SAVE OUT "C:\ESS\ESS7e02_Update.sav" /DROP e7_nd to e8_10si.

The second edition of alcohol consumption data was released on June 1st, 2016. Edition 2.0 is available on the ESS7 - 2014 Data Download page. The data file includes country-specific alcohol consumption variables (E7_1xx - E7_Nxx and E8_1xx - E8_Nxx) from the Social Inequality in Health module, as well as the harmonised E7 (ALCWKDY) and E8 (ALCWKND) variables. The second edition includes data from the 21 countries included in the second ESS7 data release.

We are pleased to announce that the second edition of data and documentation for ESS Round 7 was released on Thursday 26 May 2016. In this second edition, data and documentation for an additional 5 countries are included: Israel, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain and United Kingdom.

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland were included already in the first release back in October 2015, while the Hungarian data file was released earlier this year, in March. Hence, following the second data release, the integrated ESS7 file now includes data for 21 countries. ESS7 edition 2.0 also includes post-stratification weights and ancestry variables. For complete information about the second data release, please see ESS7 version notes.

In addition to the main data file, new editions of integrated contact form data, interviewer data, test data and parents' occupation data have also been published. The ESS7 data are available for registered users on the ESS7 - 2014 Data Download pages.

Round 7 included rotating modules on "Attitudes towards immigration and their antecedents" and "Social inequalities in health and their determinants".

The Hungarian data for ESS round 7 was released on 14 March 2016. The Hungarian main data file and documentation are accessible from the Hungary section on the ESS7 - 2014 Data Download pages. The Hungarian data will be included in the next update of the ESS7 - integrated file, scheduled for May 2016.

A serious translation error has been detected in the Austrian translations in round 1 and round 7 related to variables IMDETBS (D36 in ESS1/D10 in ESS7) and IMDETMR (D37 in ESS1/D11 in ESS7).

The phrase "different race or ethnic group" was translated as "the same race or ethnic group", leading to the Austrian translation meaning exactly the opposite from the intention in the source text. Also, in ESS7, the underlining in the Austrian version refers to "another country" and not to "different race and ethnic group".

The Austrian version of the variables will be removed from future releases of the integrated ESS1 and ESS7 data and published in country-specific Austrian data files.

The variable MBTRU (F39, "Member of trade union or similar organisation") for the Czech Republic in ESS7-2014 is incorrectly coded. Respondents in the category 3 ("No") have been erroneously coded as 8 ("Don't know"), while respondents in the category 8 have been coded as 7 ("Refusal"). The variable will be corrected in future updates of the integrated ESS7 data file. See below for suggested temporary solution to the problem.

SPSS:
do if (cntry="CZ").
recode mbtru (8 = 3) (7 = 8).
end if.

Stata:
recode mbtru (8 .c = 3) (7 .b = .c) if cntry == "CZ"

SAS:
if cntry= "CZ" then do;
    if mbtru = 8 then mbtru = 3;
    else if mbtru = 7 then mbtru = 8;
end;

The first edition of data from contact forms for ESS round 7 is now available for download in the ESS7 - 2014 Data download section.

Edition 1.0 includes data for Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland.

The first edition of alcohol consumption data was released on November 24th, 2015. Edition 1.0 is available on the ESS7 - 2014 Data Download page. The data file includes country-specific alcohol consumption variables (E7_1xx - E7_Nxx and E8_1xx - E8_Nxx) from the Social Inequality in Health module, as well as the harmonised E7 (ALCWKDY) and E8 (ALCWKND) variables. The first edition includes data from the 15 countries included in the first ESS data release.

The first edition of test data (edition 1.0) from supplementary questionnaire for ESS round 7 was released on November 12th, 2015.

Edition 1.0 is available on the ESS7 - 2014 Data Download page and includes data from the 15 countries included in the first ESS7 data release.

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