Special Eurobarometer 147: Europeans and languages

This public opinion survey, managed and organised by the European Commission's Education and Culture Directorate-General, "Centre for the citizen -- Analysis of public opinion" Unit, was conducted on behalf of the Education and Culture DG's "Language policy" Unit. The survey was conducted in all the Member at States of the European Union between 6 and 23 December 2000, under the general coordination of INRA (EUROPE) - European Coordination Office in Brussels. The report analyses language knowledge in the countries of the European Union. It is divided into chapters covering the following aspects: Languages known Languages deemed useful to know Use of foreign languages How Europeans have learned these languages Language learning Reasons for learning or not learning a language Opinions on language knowledge and learning #####The results by volumes are distributed as follows: * Volume A: Countries * Volume AA: Groups of countries * Volume A' (AP): Trends * Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries * Volume B: EU/socio-demographics * Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics * Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: [https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)