The first edition of the European Social Survey Round 6 data and metadata have now been published (http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/data/).

The countries included in the first release are: Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

In addition to the ESS core data there is now data for the repeat rotating module on ‘Personal and social wellbeing’ and a new module on ‘Europeans' understandings and evaluations of democracy’.