Data from the first two waves of the web-first panel survey (CRONOS-3) – implemented as part of the Infra4NextGen project – is now available, both for download and presented in interactive maps and graphs.

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:
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Digital
Equal
Green
Healthy
Strong

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.

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 included 90 questions – 18 on each NextGenEU theme – and took around 30 minutes to complete. 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 or £5.

Infra4NextGen

The third iteration of the CRONOS panel is being delivered via the Horizon Europe-funded project, Infra4NextGen.

Led by the European Social Survey (ESS), the project is providing data, tools and training to support the NextGenerationEU themes – digital, equal, green, healthy, and strong – and European youth policy.

The same data presented as a bar graph and an interactive map. 

Two waves of data, downloadable and visualised

The Wave 1 questionnaire included items on poverty and inequalities, climate change and energy, climate policies and educational opportunities, as well as 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, and included 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.

The data accessible via the Variable Viewer tool which allows users to view weighted data for each of the questions asked in a bar graph, map, or 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.

You can access CRONOS-3 data via the ESS Data Portal