<?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>Living Conditions in Lithuania after Joining Euro-Atlantic Institutions, November 2004</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/MAXHTC</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2026-01-02</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2026-03-05T07:32:29Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;b>&lt;i>The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: to describe the model of social stratification in Lithuania as new member of European Union, to identify existing social economic strata in society.
&lt;br>&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>:  The main groups of indicators of social stratification were investigated: power, payment, occupation, demography, activity, place of residence. It was sought to identify attribution of oneself to a certain social stratum; attitude towards one's class position; respondents' employment and occupational group, occupational position. Respondents were asked to characterize their own material condition; possession of property / capital (works of art, valuables, musical instruments, land, forest, house, etc.); to assess their dwelling.
Respondents answered questions focusing on participation in politics; made assessment of power and political creed. 
As well respondent answered questions about church attendance and partaking in religious rites; modes of leisure time and attitude towards leisure; assessed various aspects of social and cultural behaviour; evaluated their health and conditions of cure.
Respondents were asked whether they use the Internet, mobile telephone, and other communication means at work, home, libraries, at friends, etc.; do they participate in youth's organization, human rights organization, support-charity fund, local community, etc. 
Also probed were respondents' views towards specific social groups: the unemployed, poor, homeless; people of other races, nationalities, religions, homosexuals, and other.
Respondents were asked to assess the importance of preservation of traditional culture; to make judgment on traditional and new holidays (All Soul's Day, Halloween and other); to express their attitudes to items characterizing Lithuania: landscape, history, language, culture, identity and its preservation; to assess migratory processes.
Respondents' attitudes towards drinking alcohol, smoking, and drug taking were identified. 
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Social demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: gender, age, education, nationality, number of children under 18 years, monthly income per family member, place of residence, region.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>artistic activities</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>attitudes</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>culture</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>customs and traditions</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>educational background</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>electors</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>employment abroad</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>environmental conservation</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>European Union</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>families</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>information sources</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>national identity</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>national security</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>political participation</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>quality of life</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>religion</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>social class</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>social life</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>values</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>voting</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2004-12-23</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>2008-04-16</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2004-11-13</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-11-23</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-11-13</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-11-23</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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