Most Important Problems in Lithuania, May

21.12137/YZJGPYButkevičienė, EglėEglėButkevičienė0000-0002-5631-360XResearch Group – Civil Society and Sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Leader]Bryer, ThomasThomasBryer0000-0002-6002-6152Research Group – Civil Society and Sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member]Jurkevičienė, JurgitaJurgitaJurkevičienė0000-0002-8628-6147Research Group – Civil Society and Sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member]Morkevičius, VaidasVaidasMorkevičius0000-0002-2174-0396Research Group – Civil Society and Sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member; Data Curation]Valentinavičius, VytautasVytautasValentinavičius0000-0003-2110-3917Research Group – Civil Society and Sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member]Most Important Problems in Lithuania, May - July 2024Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)2024Social Sciencessocial problemspolitical, social and economic issuesgovernment policyGovernment, political systems and organisationsCenter for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA)Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, LithuaniaŽvaliauskas, 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])Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and HumanitiesCenter for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania2024-12-232024-07-272024-08-162025-08-132024-05-22/2024-07-27Survey dataLiDA_SurveyData_0550714951208932985585722742application/x-gzipapplication/x-gzipapplication/x-gzipapplication/x-gzip3.0 The purpose of the study: to investigate Lithuanian public agenda and to measure Lithuanian public opinion on the most important socio-political problems in Lithuania. Major investigated questions: 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. Additional questions: 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. Socio-demographic characteristics: 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). 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 <a href=" https://www.comparativeagendas.net/pages/master-codebook" target="_blank">coding scheme of the Comparative Agendas Project</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. SPSS, 28Dataverse collection “Monitoring of Social Problems” contains surveys studying public opinion about social policy and social issues. The main language of the study is Lithuanian (lit). Standardized questionnaire was provided for the respondents in Lithuanian (lit). Klaipėda, LithuaniaResearch Council of Lithuania (Competitive priority research programme “Strengthening Societal Resilience and Crisis Management in the Context of Contemporary Geopolitical Situation”)S-VIS-23-14