<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><dcterms:title>Most Important Problems in Lithuania, May - July 2024</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/YZJGPY</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Butkevičienė, Eglė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Bryer, Thomas</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Jurkevičienė, Jurgita</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Morkevičius, Vaidas</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Valentinavičius, Vytautas</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2024-12-23</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2025-09-08T13:56:54Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;p>
&lt;b>&lt;i>The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: to investigate Lithuanian public agenda and to measure Lithuanian public opinion on the most important socio-political problems in Lithuania.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: respondents were asked to think about the problems Lithuania is currently facing and to indicate which of them (up to three problems) the Government should pay most attention to this year (open-ended question). It was also asked how much effort the current Government of I. Šimonytė is putting into solving the problems indicated by respondents.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Additional questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: interest in politics, self-placement on left-right scale, use of the media for political news and information, assessment of the bias in the media coverage of politics in Lithuania, voting in the last (2020) Parliamentary (Seimas) elections, party voted for in the last (2020) Parliamentary (Seimas) elections. 
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: sex, age, year of birth, years of schooling or study, highest level of education, nationality, employment sector: public or private, self-assessment of social status, respondent's average net income per month, household’s average net income per month, subjective assessment of household’s financial situation, assessment of the change of household’s financial situation compared to 12 months ago, respondent's description of domicile, place of residence, region of residence (county).
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Respondents' answers to open-ended questions about the most important problems were coded by the staff of the Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA) using the international &lt;a href=" https://www.comparativeagendas.net/pages/master-codebook" target="_blank">coding scheme of the Comparative Agendas Project&lt;/a>, which has 21 major topics and more than 200 subtopics. In addition, these responses were also coded according to whether the problems identified were directly related to Ukraine.
&lt;/p></dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>social problems</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>political, social and economic issues</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>government policy</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2024-07-27</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Butkevičienė, Eglė (Research Group – Civil Society and Sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-5631-360X])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:dateSubmitted>2024-08-16</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2024-05-22</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2024-07-27</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2024-05-22</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2024-07-27</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:relation>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/PEBAHL" target="_blank"> Most Important Problems in Lithuania, March 2022 &lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/7MIKLW" target="_blank"> Most Important Problems in Lithuania, May 2023 &lt;/a>&lt;/p></dcterms:relation><dcterms:type>Survey data</dcterms:type><dcterms:spatial>Lithuania</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:rights>&lt;p>The data is available to the users of the LiDA Dataverse repository under the &lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/a>, if not indicated otherwise. Individuals and organizations wishing to use data licensed differently must apply for access to the specific data (in written form or by email: &lt;a href="mailto:data@ktu.lt">data@ktu.lt&lt;/a>). Regardless of the data access restrictions, everyone can browse and use all the descriptions of the data stored in the LiDA Dataverse repository (metadata, including fieldwork resources, research instruments and other data collection information) as well as other information under the &lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
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