“Immigrants are bad for the economy” and “Immigrants undermine the country’s culture”, development 2002-2008 
“Immigrants are bad for the economy” and “Immigrants undermine the country’s culture”, by education 2008 
“Immigrants are bad for the economy” and “Immigrants undermine the country’s culture”, by age 2008 
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Question wording: question 1: “Would you say it is generally good or bad for Switzerland’s economy that people come to live here from other countries?” Question 2: “Would you say that Switzerland’s cultural life is generally undermined or enriched by people coming to live here from other countries?”
Answer categories: question 1: Scale from 0 (bad for the economy) to 10 (good for the economy). Question 2: Scale from 0 (cultural life undermined) to 10 (cultural life enriched). Percentages correspond to respondents who indicated values from 0 to 4.
Sample size: ESS 2002: 1503; ESS 2004: 1663; ESS 2006: 1804; ESS 2008: 1819; weighted data.
Source: ESS 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.
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