Edition 1.0 of the ESS5 data and documentation is now available from the ESS Data Web Site at http://ess.nsd.uib.no.  In this first edition data and documentation for the following 20 countries are included: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

In addition, the Parents' occupation files and data from the Interviewers' questionnaire have been released.

Data from the remaining countries Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovakia and Ukraine will be published in 2012.

Bibliography reminder: Users of ESS data are required to register bibliographic citations of all forms of publications referring to ESS data in the ESS on-line bibliography database at http://ess.nsd.uib.no.