Human Rights in Lithuania, November 2001

21.12137/VN3WX5 Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania LT: Lithuania Human Rights in Lithuania, November 2001 Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA) 2025 Social Sciences access to health services children's rights crime victims elderly ethnic minorities freedom of speech LGBTQI+ rights religious freedom right to adequate living standards right to education right to information right to justice right to privacy right to property right to work rights of prisoners social security women's rights workers' rights Equality, inequality and social exclusion Legislation and legal systems Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA) Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Gaidys, Vladas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania) Baublytė, Marė (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania) Kublickienė, Lilija (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania) Sviklas, Eduardas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania) Štreimikis, Antanas (Centre for Information Technology Implementation, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-5594-0580]) Šarkutė, Ligita (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-1835-0186]) Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756]) 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]) 2008-04-28 2001-11-12 2008-04-17 2025-12-23 2001-11-08/2001-11-12 2001-11-08/2001-11-12 Survey data LiDA_SurveyData_0470 342628 198048 26047 78985 text/tab-separated-values application/pdf application/x-gzip application/x-gzip 1.0 Custom terms specific to this dataset The purpose of the study: to analyze the Lithuanian system for the protection of human rights, identify how people protect violated (abused) rights and how they assess effectiveness of various institutions assuring the human rights. Major investigated questions: Respondents were queried on their opinion about frequency of human rights abuse; most painful spheres of human rights requiring particular attention of Lithuanian society. Respondents assessed human rights protection in Lithuania in various spheres: right to get fair pay for work; right to just trial; rights of pregnant women and women bringing up juveniles; right to inviolable property; ensuring of equal opportunities to men and women; right to social security; right to a proper living standard; right to get well-timed and adequate medical aid; right to get information at state and municipal institutions; right to the inviolability of private life, etc. Questions on human rights abuses experienced by the respondent, his people and acquaintances during the last year (in respect of each mentioned item) were submitted. As well respondents were asked to which institutions they appealed when they rights were abused (court, police, parliament controllers; other state institutions, non-governmental organizations, institutions for protection of consumer rights) and whether these institutions provided the help. Reasons for making no complaint of abused rights were tested. Respondents also answered questions focusing on sufficiency of information on human rights and opportunities to defend one's rights in Lithuania and what sources provide that information. Socio-demographic characteristics: gender, age, education, occupation, marital status, nationality, number of family members, number of children under 16 years, monthly income per family member, place of residence. The survey data were collected at the request of the Commission for the Implementation of the National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Republic of Lithuania under the Human Rights Committee of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. The main language of the study is Lithuanian (lit). Standardized questionnaire was provided for the respondents in Lithuanian (lit). Dataset (data and metadata) “Human Rights in Lithuania, November 2001” 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_ZTLT_0013; produced Gaidys, Vladas; Baublytė, Marė; Kublickienė, Lilija; Sviklas, Eduardas; Štreimikis, Antanas (2008-04-28); revised by Šarkutė, Ligita (2010-09-23). Survey Data > Human Rights SPSS, 29 Lithuania Vilnius, Lithuania United Nations Development Programme (Support to development of national action plan for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Republic of Lithuania)