<?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>Parliamentary Elections, July 2004</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/XBOVDZ</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Civil Society Institute</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2023-05-15</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2025-08-15T13:30:01Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;b>&lt;i>The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: to identify Lithuania's citizens' political priorities and electoral attitudes when voting in 2004 Parliamentary elections.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: it was investigated respondents' voting for a concrete person in the first and second round of presidential election in 2004 and voting for a concrete party in European Parliament elections, June 13, 2004; clarified motives voting for the concrete party; intentions to vote in oncoming legislative election in autumn. Respondents were asked about self-determination motives to vote or not to vote in election (sense of responsibility, election campaign, attractiveness of politicians, weather on Election Day, or other); main sources of information: radio, TV, press, internet, and friends. Respondents were also asked whether concrete politician's opinion is important when they voting; what is the most important point determining respondent's voting for some party (general opinion about party, party's political attitudes, other) and the most important point determining respondent's voting for a candidate-member of parliament (candidate's fame, election campaign or other); do respondents are going to vote in this year legislative election for the present parliament member elected in one's electoral district. It was tested respondents' opinion on the proposal to repeal voting for lists of parties, all parliament members should be elected in single-mandate districts, i.e. it should be voted only for individual politicians; willingness to vote for people new in politics; attitude to representatives of unwanted parties (Union of Peasants and New Democratic Parties, Liberal and Centre Union, Union of Russians of Lithuania, etc.) in the parliament. Probed were respondents' views on who are the most attractive politician; what are expectations related to new elected politicians: reinforcement of security in Lithuania, fight against corruption, price reduction, creation of working places, stimulation of fertility, etc.; which parties have the best abilities improving the situation in Lithuania and do respondents intend to vote for politicians who are going to make radical changes in present policy.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: gender, age, education, occupation, nationality, monthly income per family member, place of residence, region.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>parliamentary elections</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>presidential elections</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>european parliament 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>2004-07-11</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Gaidys, Vladas (UAB "Vilmorus", Lithuania)</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>2008-04-07</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2004-07-08</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-07-11</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-07-08</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2004-07-11</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:spatial>Druskininkai</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:spatial>Visaginas</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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