87,591 responses from 29,457 respondents to 3 items.
One of 7 tables from the same source; this one is the ucla table. The others are listed under Related tables.
| Description | UCLA 3-item loneliness scale, 1 Hardly ever or never / 2 Some of the time / 3 Often; EU Loneliness Survey (Nov-Dec 2022): EU27 non-probability online panel (N = 25,646, 27 member states) plus EU4 probability panel (FR/IT/PL/SE, N = 4,029); ids prefixed by sample, cov_sample, survey weights cov_w_country/cov_w_eu27; cov_country, cov_age, cov_gender, cov_education, cov_relationship, cov_work_status, cov_health_general, cov_municipality_type. |
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| Reference | European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2024). EU Loneliness Survey [Dataset]. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC). http://data.europa.eu/89h/82e60986-9987-4610-ab4a-84f0f5a9193b |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Source data | https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset/82e60986-9987-4610-ab4a-84f0f5a9193b |
These data were found via repos_weekly_2026-10-12.
| Responses | 87,591 |
|---|---|
| Respondents | 29,457 |
| Items | 3 |
| Response categories | 3 |
| Responses per respondent | 2.974 |
| Responses per item | 29,197 |
| Density | 0.991 |
| Longitudinal | FALSE |
This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.
| Column | What it is | Source column |
|---|---|---|
| IRW standard columns | ||
id | IRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task). | not traced |
item | IRW standard Item identifier. | not traced |
resp | IRW standard Response value. | not traced |
| Respondent covariates | ||
cov_age | Covariate | not traced |
cov_country | Covariate | not traced |
cov_education | Covariate | not traced |
cov_gender | Covariate | not traced |
cov_health_general | Covariate | not traced |
cov_municipality_type | Covariate | not traced |
cov_relationship | Covariate | not traced |
cov_sample | Covariate | not traced |
cov_w_country | Covariate | not traced |
cov_w_eu27 | Covariate | not traced |
cov_work_status | Covariate | not traced |
What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.
Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("euls_2022_ucla")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("euls_2022_ucla")
@misc{https://doi.org/10.2905/jrc.v4vt8t8,
doi = {10.2905/JRC.V4VT8T8},
url = {https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset/82e60986-9987-4610-ab4a-84f0f5a9193b},
author = {{Survey Methods and Analysis Centre (SMAC)}},
keywords = {Population and society, Health, childhood experiences, civic engagement, health, loneliness, social connections, social isolation, social media use, trust, wellbeing},
title = {EU Loneliness Survey},
publisher = {European Commission, Joint Research Centre},
year = {2026}
}
| IRW version | v584 |
|---|---|
| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse_5 v8.5 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/41xy-5k56 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v8.5 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v44.0 |