<?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>Public Security Institutions, April 2004</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/7URIWS</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2025-12-23</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2026-03-04T10:30:58Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;b>&lt;i>The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: to investigate Lithuania's citizens opinion about public security institutions.
&lt;br>&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: Respondents were asked to evaluate the work of public security institutions (Police Department; State Border Guard Service; Financial Crime Investigation Service; Fire and Rescue Department; VIP Security Department); the impact of qualification of officers, work organisation, employees work conditions and new technologies on the activity of these institutions.
Respondents were also asked about sufficiency / insufficiency of information on organisation of work of these public security institutions: objectives and functions, work time, contacts, inquiry phone numbers etc.
Respondents gave assessment of extent of threat of criminality, corruption in law enforcement institutions, financial crimes, terror acts to public security and struggle of public security institutions against the above threats; work of specialists for liquidation of mass riots; personal feeling of security.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: gender, age, education, occupation, nationality, monthly income per one family member, place of residence, region.&lt;br>
&lt;br>&lt;i>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.&lt;/i></dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>border controls</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>corruption</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>crime prevention</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>criminals</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>fear of crime</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>financial crime</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>fire-fighting services</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>personal safety</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>police services</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>rescue services</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>riots</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>risk</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>robbery</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>security services</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>terrorism</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2004-04-04</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Gaidys, Vladas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Gaidys, Vladas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Baublytė, Marė (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Kublickienė, Lilija (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Sviklas, Eduardas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Štreimikis, Antanas (Centre for Information Technology Implementation, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-5594-0580])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Šarkutė, Ligita (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-1835-0186])</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>2008-04-17</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2004-04-01</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-04-04</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-04-01</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-04-04</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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