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    <title>Virtual Social Networks VI, October - December 2015</title>
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    <date dateType="Issued">2018-04-13</date>
    <date dateType="Created">2015-12-01</date>
    <date dateType="Submitted">2016-01-29</date>
    <date dateType="Available">2022-03-10</date>
    <date dateType="Updated">2025-03-10</date>
    <date dateType="Collected">2015-10-08/2015-12-01</date>
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    <description descriptionType="Abstract">&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;The purpose of the study&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;: to analyse Lithuanian residents attitude towards virtual social networks, behaviour and intensity of involvement in networks.
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&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Major investigated questions&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;: respondents were asked how often do they use the internet and when did they started using it. Respondents were asked how often they use electronic social network portals.
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&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Socio-demographic characteristics&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;: gender, age, duration of education, education, employment status of the respondent and his / her husband / wife / permanent partner, profession (occupation), respondent&amp;apos;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&amp;apos;s average and total average monthly household income, marital status, place of residence.</description>
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The main language of the study is Lithuanian (lit).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Standardized questionnaire was provided for the respondents in Lithuanian (lit).
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&lt;p&gt;
Dataset (data and metadata) “Virtual Social Networks VI, October - December 2015” from 2018-04-13 to 2021-10-01 was available on the portal of Lithuanian Data Archive for Humanities and Social Sciences (LiDA) www.lidata.eu; object PID: www.lidata.eu/data/quant/LiDA_SLT_0305; produced by Žvaliauskas Giedrius 2018-04-13. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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