<?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>Social Policy II, November - December 2011</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/IJRSCP</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Krupavičius, Algis</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Butkevičienė, Eglė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Morkevičius, Vaidas</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Šarkutė, Ligita</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Telešienė, Audronė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Vaidelytė, Eglė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Žvaliauskas, Giedrius</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2022-01-28</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2025-08-15T12:16:47Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;b>&lt;i>The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: to ascertain Lithuanian residents opinion about main principles of social policy, to analyse residents specific experiences and provisions related with social policy in Lithuania and to assess effectiveness of social policy in Lithuania.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: respondents were asked which of the listed things causes the biggest threat to Lithuania. Respondents were asked to which type they appointed this days Lithuanian society and what Lithuanian should be - which type they would choose. It was analysed how should the state act if it should choose between tax reduction or spend more on social security and inflation reduction or unemployment reduction. Respondents were asked how safe they personally feel in case of retirement, illness, loss of work, divorce or break up with partner, longterm physical or mental disability and child birth. Respondents were asked to assess how many state objectives in assuring society's well-being in Lithuanian are achieved or unachieved based on the list of objectives in social policy of Lithuania gathered form various political documents. First, respondents were asked how they evaluate state efforts in seeking objectives in labour market and employment areas. Next question block to reveal how state is doing in achieving objectives in social equity and social security areas was presented. Respondents were asked how in their opinion state is doing in achieving its objectives in family policy and child-rearing areas. Next, situation in educational area was assessed. Question block about state achievements in natural and living environment areas was presented. At the interview, satisfaction with social security system in Lithuanian in general was assessed. Respondents were asked if it is better to save retirement pension in "Sodra" or in private funds by paying deposits. Respondents were asked how they participate in pension saving system. Respondents were asked if they would use an opportunity to decline pension saving in private funds and start saving in "Sodra" if conditions in pension saving participation would change.  Opinion about situation of ethnic minorities in Lithuania was analysed. Respondents were asked if they are planning to go to work or live abroad for longer than 6 months and if they would agree that Lithuania would let in all immigrants without huge restrictions. It was analysed if the state should fund assisted reproduction. It was questioned if respondents would agree with authorization to freeze embryos and later use them in assisted reproduction. Further, respondents were asked about possibilities of changing the appearance of unborn child - to decide on future child's height, colour of skin, hair and eyes, gender and other physical characteristics using newest technologies. Respondents were asked about current economic situation in Lithuania and material situation of respondents family. Respondents were asked how they envision economic situation in Lithuania and their family's material situation after a year.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: gender, age, duration of education, education, employment status of the respondent and his / her husband / wife / permanent partner, profession (occupation), respondent's trade union membership, religion, participation in religious rites, political views, political and social activism, voting in the last Seimas elections, nationality, household size, respondent's average and total average monthly household income, marital status, place of residence, satisfaction with quality of life, change in living conditions, received social benefits, received financial support from abroad living relatives.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>social problems</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>social policy</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>labour and employment</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>social security</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>health policy</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>family policy</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>political, social and economic issues</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:IsCitedBy>Matonytė, Irmina; Kazlauskaitė, Rūta; Poškutė, Virginija. (2019). Ilgalaikė senyvo amžiaus asmenų globa Lietuvoje: visuomenės nuostatos ir paslaugų teikėjų požiūriai. Socialinė teorija, empirija, politika ir praktika, 18, 74-95., doi, 10.15388/STEPP.2019.5, https://doi.org/10.15388/STEPP.2019.5</dcterms:IsCitedBy><dcterms:date>2011-12-19</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Krupavičius, Algis (Institute of Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-6919-6580])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Vilčinskas, Vidas (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-9377-0458])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Burbienė, Diana (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-8435-090X])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:dateSubmitted>2011-12-22</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2011-11-22</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2011-12-19</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2011-11-22</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2011-12-19</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:relation>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/XXAXVK " target="_blank"> Social Policy I, November 2010 - February 2011 &lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/4BNIN7" target="_blank"> Social Policy III, January - February 2013 &lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/Q4PIQZ " target="_blank"> Social Policy IV, October - November 2013 &lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/DIOGZC" target="_blank"> Social Policy V, March - April 2015&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/AMTS6H " target="_blank"> Social Policy VI, October - December 2015 &lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/RXNUUD" target="_blank"> Social Policy VII, June - August 2016&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Datasets of which data collection was conducted at the same time as of the study "Social Policy II, November - December 2011" were carried out simultaneously: &lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/JPQLGZ" target="_blank">Virtual Social Networks II, November - December 2011&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/LZQ77N" target="_blank">ISSP 2011: Health and Healthcare I, Lithuania, November - December 2011&lt;/a>&lt;/p></dcterms:relation><dcterms:type>Survey data</dcterms:type><dcterms:spatial>Lithuania</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:rights>&lt;p>Duomenys yra prieinami LiDA Dataverse talpyklos vartotojams pagal &lt;a href="https://cc.lnb.lt/cc-by-sa" target="_blank">„Creative Commons“ 4.0 priskyrimo ir analogiško platinimo tarptautinės viešosios licencijos (CC BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/a> sąlygas, jei nenumatyta kitaip. Jei norima naudoti kitaip licencijuojamus duomenis, reikia kreiptis dėl galimybės naudotis konkrečiais duomenimis (raštu ar el. paštu: &lt;a href="mailto:data@ktu.lt">data@ktu.lt&lt;/a>). Nepriklausomai nuo prieigos prie duomenų apribojimų, visi norintieji gali peržiūrėti ir naudoti visų LiDA Dataverse talpykloje saugomų duomenų aprašus (metaduomenis, įskaitant lauko darbų vykdymo medžiagą, tyrimo instrumentus bei kitą su duomenų surinkimu susijusią informaciją) ir kitą informaciją pagal &lt;a href="https://cc.lnb.lt/cc-by-sa" target="_blank">„Creative Commons“ 4.0 priskyrimo ir analogiško platinimo tarptautinę viešąją licenciją (CC BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/a>.&lt;/p> 
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