I’m a European, and the thought that geographical Europe might be meant didn’t even occur to me,since in most of my daily interactions (media consumed, small talk, etc.), “Europe” is used interchangeably with “European Union”. Teaches me to read such survey questions more thoroughly.
I want to congratulate you on how well you integrated the many suggestions you got, I see many improvements compared to the 2012 (for example, the introductory text convinced me to take the survey right away, when I was one of those who put it off last year).
Might have something to do with the fact that your country hadn’t entered the EU until relatively recently. (Mine was one of the founding members of the EEC, but I’m quite familiar with the Wikipedia article naming conventions so I correctly guessed what the question was about.)
I’m a European, and the thought that geographical Europe might be meant didn’t even occur to me,since in most of my daily interactions (media consumed, small talk, etc.), “Europe” is used interchangeably with “European Union”. Teaches me to read such survey questions more thoroughly.
I want to congratulate you on how well you integrated the many suggestions you got, I see many improvements compared to the 2012 (for example, the introductory text convinced me to take the survey right away, when I was one of those who put it off last year).
I’m European (EU member state) and it didn’t occur to me anyone would be interested in the combined population of EU member states.
Might have something to do with the fact that your country hadn’t entered the EU until relatively recently. (Mine was one of the founding members of the EEC, but I’m quite familiar with the Wikipedia article naming conventions so I correctly guessed what the question was about.)