Survey on Public Perceptions of Big Tech Companies in Europe

Abstract

This data set contains a cross-country survey in 15 European countries on public perceptions of big-tech companies. The purpose of the dataset is to map out European citizens' perceptions of big-tech companies together with additional information that would allow to analyse how such perceptions are related to political and socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents. The survey contains questions about how people perceive the political and social role of GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft), how much they trust these companies and how they perceive the need to regulate such companies. Furthermore, it contains questions on the political and ideological preferences of the respondents, how much they are satisfied with the political situation in their countries, how much they trust political institutions in their countries and what their attitudes are about the EU.