<?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>Attitudes towards Ethnic and Social Groups, March 2008</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/1DCQV0</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Institute for Social Research</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2025-12-23</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2026-03-04T09:18:41Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;b>&lt;i>The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: to examine the opinions of the country's residents about the situation of various ethnic and social groups living in Lithuania.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: after listing various groups of people, respondents were asked to indicate which of these groups they would not want to live next to. The study examined how respondents' attitudes toward the listed groups living in Lithuania have changed over the past 5 years. At the end of the survey, a block of questions was presented to explore respondents' opinions about foreigners employed in vacant jobs in Lithuania.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: age, education, marital status, employment, occupation, monthly income per family member, number of family members, number of children under 18, ethnicity, gender, county, municipality.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>attitudes</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>ethnic groups</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>foreign workers</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>intergroup relations</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>jews</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>LGBTQI+</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>minority groups</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>refugees</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>religious groups</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>roma</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2008-03-07</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Gaidys, Vladas (Lithuanian Centre for Social Research, Lithuania)</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])</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>2011-10-25</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2008-02-27</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2008-03-07</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2008-02-27</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2008-03-07</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:type>Survey data</dcterms:type><dcterms:spatial>Lithuania</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:rights>&lt;p>The description of the dataset (&lt;b>metadata&lt;/b>) is freely and openly available to both registered and unregistered users of the LiDA Dataverse repository under the terms of the &lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
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