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&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: it was analysed if respondents were interested in politics. It was analysed if the President of the Republic of Lithuania can indicate to judges based on Constitution of Lithuania what decisions they should accept in some cases. Respondents were asked to reveal if they usually vote in elections. It was asked for which party's list respondents voted in 2008 Seimas elections. It was analysed how important listed reasons are in deciding for who to vote in the Seimas elections. Respondents were asked when they decided for which party to vote. Respondents trust in Lithuanian politicians was assessed. Respondents who did not participated in the elections were asked what was the reason. It was questioned for which party respondents voted in 2004 elections. When provided with the list of Lithuanian political parties, respondents had an opportunity to indicate how much they (do not) like a specific party.  Purpose was to find out how work of G. Kirkilas Government was assessed. Questions block about features of election campaign was presented. Respondents evaluated their views in left-right scale. Possible respondents involvement in various political participation forms was assessed. Questions block about possible changes in different areas of Lithuanian socio-political life was presented. At the end, respondents were asked if it was better to live in Soviet times than in Lithuania now.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: gender, age, education, occupation, nationality, marital status, income per family member per month, place of residence, region.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>parliamentary elections</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>election campaigns</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>electoral issues</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>electoral candidates</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>voting behaviour</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>political parties</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>party politics</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>legislature</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2008-11-15</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Kavaliauskaitė, Jūratė (Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Lithuania [ORCID: 0009-0003-8194-2330])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>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])</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>2011-09-18</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2008-11-07</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2008-11-15</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2008-11-07</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2008-11-15</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:type>Survey data</dcterms:type><dcterms:spatial>Lithuania</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:spatial>Vilnius</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:spatial>Kaunas</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:spatial>Klaipėda</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:spatial>Šiauliai</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:spatial>Panevėžys</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:spatial>Marijampolė</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:rights>&lt;p>The data is available to the users of the LiDA Dataverse repository under the &lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/a>, if not indicated otherwise. Individuals and organizations wishing to use data licensed differently must apply for access to the specific data (in written form or by email: &lt;a href="mailto:data@ktu.lt">data@ktu.lt&lt;/a>). Regardless of the data access restrictions, everyone can browse and use all the descriptions of the data stored in the LiDA Dataverse repository (metadata, including fieldwork resources, research instruments and other data collection information) as well as other information under the &lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
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