Barometer of the Public Opinion Research Center, April 1991https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/IBK0XJPublic Opinion Research Center at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the Lithuanian Academy of SciencesLithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)2021-10-072025-08-15T10:52:44Z<b><i>The purpose of the study</i></b>: to investigate the attitudes of Lithuanian population about the most important political, social and economic issues during the rapid transformation of society and state. <br> <b><i>Major investigated questions</i></b>: respondents were asked whether they had sufficient knowledge of rising prices, government work, compensation arrangements, economic reforms, privatization, investment vouchers, unemployment benefits, and charity and welfare opportunities. The question blocks were used to find out how the diet of respondents and their families had changed as prices rose and whether the certain products and food prices increased too much. It was further asked whether the rise of prices was upsetting and how they intended to adapt to rising prices. How respondents and their families deal with money and what they think about price increase as citizens. The respondents were asked how to deal with the loss-making nature of children's clothing and footwear. It was asked how it plans to use the received benefits (investment checks), as it is planned to sell out 2/3 of the state property and what part of its savings they intend to spend on privatization of the state property. After asking the block of questions the respondents assessed the increase of energy tariffs (prices). Further it was also posed questions what TV channels respondents can see at home, which of the mentioned channels respondents watch most often and how much they trust them. It was asked whether they were not afraid that in the conditions of a market economy the family of the respondents could find themselves in the group of poor, poorly supplied families and what should be the minimum subsistence level set by the state in Lithuania, i.e. what minimum income per month should be guaranteed to a family member, each person (in USSR rubbles). Respondents were asked whether they were satisfied with the financial situation of their family and how much money each family member spent on average per month. It was wanted to know which problems of Lithuania should be solved first of all. Respondents further assessed the activities of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, the Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party, and the Lithuanian Communist Party. It was posed question to know whether they had ever thought that they were not only Lithuanian (Russian, Polish, etc.), but also European. Respondents were asked whether they had heard the terms "European Community", "European Economic Community" and "single market" and whether they knew what they meant. Moreover, respondents were asked to find out their views on the efforts to unite Western Europe and Lithuania's accession to the European Community in the future. Finally, after listing the representatives of the other countries, they were asked to indicate how much they trusted them. <br> <b><i>Socio-demographic characteristics</i></b>: gender, age, education, social status, number of minors in the family, nationality, place of residence.Social Sciencesstandard of livingeconomic conditionsprivatizationmarket economypricestelevision channelspolitical partiespolitical leaderseuropean unionpolitical, social and economic issuesEnglishLithuanianGaidys, Vladas; Danutė Tureikytė (2015). Visuomenės nuomonės tyrimai Lietuvos istorinio lūžio laikotarpiu. Vilnius: Lietuvos socialinių tyrimų centras., isbn, 978-9955-531-54-8, https://www.lstc.lt/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/visuomenes_nuomones_tyrimai_visas.pdf1991-04-22Gaidys, Vladas (Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Lithuania)Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])Vilčinskas, Vidas (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-9377-0458])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])2019-12-181991-04-171991-04-221991-04-171991-04-22Survey dataLithuaniaVilnius CityKaunas CityKlaipėda CityŠiauliai CityPanevėžys CityAlytus CityKapsukas (Marijampolė) CityDruskininkai CitySniečkus (Visaginas) City<p>Duomenys yra prieinami LiDA Dataverse talpyklos vartotojams pagal <a href="https://cc.lnb.lt/cc-by-sa" target="_blank">„Creative Commons“ 4.0 priskyrimo ir analogiško platinimo tarptautinės viešosios licencijos (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a> sąlygas, jei nenumatyta kitaip. 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