<?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>Consumer Survey, July 2003</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/ZJEF8P</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>State Consumer Rights Protection Authority</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2025-12-23</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2026-03-04T09:19:10Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;b>&lt;i>
The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: 
is to analyze the opinion of Lithuanian citizens about the situation of consumer rights and its protection.
&lt;br>&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: 
respondents had the possibility to evaluate the access to and quality of different services (the energy, postal services, communications, and transportation) and to evaluate whether the price paid for these services is fair. Respondents were asked whether the information received from different service providers is clear. Respondents were also asked whether the terms, commitments and payment periods of a standard contract, which they have with various service providers, are fair, and whether respondents personally have made a complaint to a service provider or other bodies of complaints handling because of the supply of the services and how the complaint was scrutinized. Respondents were asked to assess work quality of service providers' staff ant to indicate whether or they or their family members bought food or other items of poor quality or were provided with a service of poor quality during the last 12 months. Respondents were asked whether they knew where to claim if they buy a product of poor quality and the seller or producer refuses to compensate the losses. They were also asked whether they receive sufficient information about the quality of the product they buy and whether they had heard about the particular organizations of consumers' rights protection.
&lt;br>&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: 
gender, age, education, occupation, nationality, number of minors in the family, monthly family income per one family member, place of residence, region.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>consumer action</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>consumer goods</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>consumer information</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>consumer protection</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>consumer service</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>contracts and agreements</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>electric power supply</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>financial services</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>gas supply</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>mobile communication</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>organizations</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>postal services</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>public transport</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>railway transport</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2003-07-06</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Gaidys, Vladas (UAB "Vilmorus", Lithuania)</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>2010-04-02</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2003-07-03</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2003-07-06</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2003-07-03</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2003-07-06</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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