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  <titles>
    <title>Attitudes Towards the EU, February 2004</title>
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  <publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</publisher>
  <publicationYear>2025</publicationYear>
  <subjects>
    <subject>Social Sciences</subject>
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    <subject schemeURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu" subjectScheme="ELSST">economic and social development</subject>
    <subject schemeURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu" subjectScheme="ELSST">European integration</subject>
    <subject schemeURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu" subjectScheme="ELSST">European Union</subject>
    <subject schemeURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu" subjectScheme="ELSST">information needs</subject>
    <subject schemeURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu" subjectScheme="ELSST">well-being (society)</subject>
    <subject schemeURI="https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/TopicClassification?code=PoliticsInternationalPoliticsAndOrganisations" subjectScheme="CESSDA CV for CESSDA Topic Classification">International politics and organisations</subject>
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      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities</contributorName>
      <affiliation>Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania</affiliation>
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      <affiliation>Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania</affiliation>
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      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Gaidys, Vladas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</contributorName>
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    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Baublytė, Marė (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</contributorName>
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    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Kublickienė, Lilija (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</contributorName>
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    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Sviklas, Eduardas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</contributorName>
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    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Štreimikis, Antanas (Centre for Information Technology Implementation, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-5594-0580])</contributorName>
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    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Šarkutė, Ligita (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-1835-0186])</contributorName>
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    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])</contributorName>
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    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">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])</contributorName>
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    <date dateType="Issued">2008-04-28</date>
    <date dateType="Created">2004-02-08</date>
    <date dateType="Submitted">2008-04-15</date>
    <date dateType="Available">2025-12-30</date>
    <date dateType="Collected">2004-02-05/2004-02-08</date>
    <date dateType="Other" dateInformation="Time period covered by the data">2004-02-05/2004-02-08</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 identify Lithuania&amp;apos;s citizens&amp;apos; attitudes towards European Union and their opinion on the membership of Lithuania in the EU.
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&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 do they support the membership of Lithuania in the EU and point out main reasons for this support (improvement of private well-being; increase of security of Lithuania; reduction of Russian influence; European Union financially supports less developed countries, other).
Respondents assessed the sufficiency / insufficiency of information on Lithuania&amp;apos;s admission to the European Union; pointed out what information related to the EU membership of Lithuania is the most interesting to respondents (EU institutions; business opportunities in the EU market; employment opportunities in EU countries, consumer rights protection, other). 
Respondents also gave judgement on the changes that take place in Lithuania after joining the European Union in May, 2004: expectations of positive changes and fears of concrete negative changes. 
Also probed were respondents&amp;apos; attitudes towards the readiness of Lithuania for EU membership; discussions on topics of oncoming membership with one&amp;apos;s people, relatives, friends.
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;
&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, education, occupation, nationality, number of family members, monthly income per family member, place of residence, region.</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).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Dataset (data and metadata) “Attitude Towards the EU, February 2004” from 2008-04-28 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_LTES_0020; produced by Gaidys, Vladas; Baublytė, Marė; Kublickienė, Lilija; Sviklas, Eduardas; Štreimikis, Antanas (2008-04-28); revised by Šarkutė, Ligita (2010-12-03). 
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    <description descriptionType="SeriesInformation">Survey Data &gt; Lithuania and the European Union</description>
    <description descriptionType="TechnicalInfo">SPSS, 29</description>
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      <geoLocationPlace>Lithuania</geoLocationPlace>
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    <geoLocation>
      <geoLocationPlace>Vilnius, Lithuania</geoLocationPlace>
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      <funderName>European Committee under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania</funderName>
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