Analysis on micro- and macro-level factors affecting attitudes to immigration based on original analysis

Based on the identification of the most influential factors affecting attitudes to immigration from the literature T 51 it will analyse individual survey data European Social Survey Eurobarometer World Value Survey combined with aggregatelevel data on countries Eurostat Word Bank etc to identify micro and macrolevel factors affecting attitudes to immigrantsimmigration policies We will do so by means of multilevel modelling techniques which is a statistical technique that is particularly appropriate for nested data such as respondents in surveys nested in countries and which allows to disentangle the effects certain countrylevel factors such as GDP per capita the level of inequality within a country etc that might play in shaping attitudes towards immigration