The European Social Survey (ESS) is part of the large public infrastructure for academic social research in Europe. The ESS is conducted repeatedly in a 2-years turn since 2002 and a core questionnaire program is held comparable across the participating countries. ESS data are made accessible to the scientific community at https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org . For a recent analysis of pooled ESS data (for the years 2002 to 2018) information and program code is available at https://github.com/viewsandinsights/inference .