<?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>Virtual Social Networks VI, October - December 2015</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/TPSXMG</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Krupavičius, Algis</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Balžekienė, Aistė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Bartuškaitė, Miglė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Butkevičienė, Eglė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Telešienė, Audronė</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Žvaliauskas, Giedrius</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2022-03-10</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2025-08-15T12:07:01Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;b>&lt;i>The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: to analyse Lithuanian residents attitude towards virtual social networks, behaviour and intensity of involvement in networks.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: respondents were asked how often do they use the internet and when did they started using it. Respondents were asked how often they use electronic social network portals.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: gender, age, duration of education, education, employment status of the respondent and his / her husband / wife / permanent partner, profession (occupation), respondent's trade union membership, religion, participation in religious rites, political views, political and social activism, voting in the last Seimas elections, nationality, household size, respondent's average and total average monthly household income, marital status, place of residence.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>internet</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>information society</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>internet use</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>social media</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>information and communications technology</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2015-12-01</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Krupavičius, Algis (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-6919-6580])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>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])</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>2016-01-29</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2015-10-08</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2015-12-01</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2015-10-08</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2015-12-01</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:relation>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/VPN7LI " target="_blank"> Virtual Social Networks I, November 2010 - February 2011&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/JPQLGZ " target="_blank"> Virtual Social Networks II, November - December 2011&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/SQGRO3 " target="_blank"> Virtual Social Networks III, January - February 2013&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/VPOEAY " target="_blank"> Virtual Social Networks IV, January - February 2013&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/MVTU5U " target="_blank"> Virtual Social Networks V, March - April 2015&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Datasets of which data collection was conducted at the same time as of the study "Virtual Social Networks VI, October - December 2015" were carried out simultaneously: 
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/35A7Z2" target="_blank"> ISSP 2015: Work Orientation IV, Lithuania, October - December 2015&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/TFD6TJ" target="_blank"> Virtual Work III, October - December 2015&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/AMTS6H" target="_blank"> Social Policy VI, October - December 2015&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/1UDYZP" target="_blank"> Societal Wellbeing II, October - December 2015&lt;/a>&lt;/p></dcterms:relation><dcterms:type>Survey data</dcterms:type><dcterms:spatial>Lithuania</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:rights>&lt;p>Duomenys yra prieinami LiDA Dataverse talpyklos vartotojams pagal &lt;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)&lt;/a> sąlygas, jei nenumatyta kitaip. Jei norima naudoti kitaip licencijuojamus duomenis, reikia kreiptis dėl galimybės naudotis konkrečiais duomenimis (raštu ar el. paštu: &lt;a href="mailto:data@ktu.lt">data@ktu.lt&lt;/a>). Nepriklausomai nuo prieigos prie duomenų apribojimų, visi norintieji gali peržiūrėti ir naudoti visų LiDA Dataverse talpykloje saugomų duomenų aprašus (metaduomenis, įskaitant lauko darbų vykdymo medžiagą, tyrimo instrumentus bei kitą su duomenų surinkimu susijusią informaciją) ir kitą informaciją pagal &lt;a href="https://cc.lnb.lt/cc-by-sa" target="_blank">„Creative Commons“ 4.0 priskyrimo ir analogiško platinimo tarptautinę viešąją licenciją (CC BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/a>.&lt;/p> 
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