This dataset contains data related to the paper: "European identity and citizens' support for the EU: testing the utilitarian approach". The dataset was built collecting data from different sources: the dataset “PERCEIVE: WP1: Framework for comparative analysis of the perception of Cohesion Policy and identification with the European Union at citizen level in different European countries: Survey at citizen level and data relative to regional performance of the Cohesion Policy and institutional quality” (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3346047), EUROSTAT and a dataset on EU funding provided by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG Regio). A readme file is included.