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&lt;br>&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: respondents were asked do they support the membership of Lithuania in the EU and point out main reasons for this support (improvement of private well-being; increase of security of Lithuania; reduction of Russian influence; European Union financially supports less developed countries, other).
Respondents assessed the sufficiency / insufficiency of information on Lithuania's admission to the European Union; pointed out what information related to the EU membership of Lithuania is the most interesting to respondents (EU institutions; business opportunities in the EU market; employment opportunities in EU countries, consumer rights protection, other). 
Respondents also gave judgement on the changes that take place in Lithuania after joining the European Union in May, 2004: expectations of positive changes and fears of concrete negative changes. 
Also probed were respondents' attitudes towards the readiness of Lithuania for EU membership; discussions on topics of oncoming membership with one's people, relatives, friends.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: gender, age, education, occupation, nationality, number of family members, monthly income per family member, place of residence, region.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>development aid (international)</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>economic and social development</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>European integration</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>European Union</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>information needs</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>well-being (society)</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2004-02-08</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>2008-04-15</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2004-02-05</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-02-08</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-02-05</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-02-08</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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