<resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4" xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.1/metadata.xsd"><identifier identifierType="Handle">21.12137/XFDVHG</identifier><creators><creator><creatorName nameType="Organizational">Public Opinion Research Center at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences</creatorName><affiliation>LT: Lithuania</affiliation></creator></creators><titles><title>Barometer of the Public Opinion Research Center, June 1993</title></titles><publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</publisher><publicationYear>2021</publicationYear><subjects><subject>Social Sciences</subject><subject schemeURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu/id/5fe1de27-c874-4fac-93d5-25c572528bd8" subjectScheme="European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST)">legislature</subject><subject 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organisations</subject></subjects><contributors><contributor contributorType="ContactPerson"><contributorName nameType="Organizational">Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA)</contributorName><affiliation>Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania</affiliation></contributor><contributor contributorType="DataCurator"><contributorName nameType="Organizational">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])</contributorName></contributor><contributor contributorType="DataCurator"><contributorName nameType="Organizational">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])</contributorName></contributor><contributor contributorType="DataCurator"><contributorName nameType="Organizational">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])</contributorName></contributor><contributor contributorType="Distributor"><contributorName nameType="Organizational">Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities</contributorName><affiliation>Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania</affiliation></contributor></contributors><dates><date dateType="Issued">2021-07-27</date><date dateType="Created">1993-06-14</date><date dateType="Submitted">2020-01-20</date><date dateType="Updated">2025-03-10</date><date dateType="Collected">1993-06-09/1993-06-14</date></dates><resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">Survey data</resourceType><alternateIdentifiers><alternateIdentifier alternateIdentifierType="Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities (LiDA)">LiDA_SurveyData_0278</alternateIdentifier></alternateIdentifiers><relatedIdentifiers><relatedIdentifier relationType="IsCitedBy" relatedIdentifierType="ISBN">978-9955-531-54-8</relatedIdentifier></relatedIdentifiers><sizes><size>66073</size><size>254438</size><size>10492370</size><size>176147</size></sizes><formats><format>application/gzip</format><format>text/tab-separated-values</format><format>application/gzip</format><format>application/pdf</format></formats><version>5.2</version><rightsList><rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess"/><rights/></rightsList><descriptions><description descriptionType="Abstract">&lt;b>&lt;i>The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: to investigate the attitudes of Lithuanian population about the most important political, social and economic issues during the rapid transformation of society and state.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: respondents were asked how A. M. Brazauskas performs the duties of the President, and Č. Juršėnas and A. Šleževičius hold the respective positions of the Speaker of the Seimas and the Prime Minister. Opinions were sought on how the activities of the Seimas and the Government correspond to the interests of the people. Respondents were asked to assess the current economic situation in Lithuania and what respondents think will be the economic situation in Lithuania after 12 months. Also, the respondents assessed their current economic situation (their family) and the material situation of the respondents (their family) after 12 months respectively. It was asked which political party or movement respondents sympathized with and which party, according to the respondents, would receive the most votes. After asking a block of questions, it was wanted to know what actions respondents would take to help the political party they sympathize with. The LDDP's economic and social policy was further evaluated. After listing all the Prime Ministers, respondents were asked to answer who of them was or is most suitable for this position. Residents of Lithuania who participated in the survey were asked to answer whether they read newspaper "Echo of Lithuania" and whether they intend to participate in the events when Pope John Paul II arrive in Lithuania. They were asked whether they had personally received or expected to receive land under current Lithuanian property restitution laws. The amount of taxes paid by private entrepreneurs to the state was assessed. At the end of the survey, respondents were asked to express their attitude towards abortion and to evaluate their health condition.
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&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: gender, age, nationality, country of birth, education, work status, employment, occupation, average monthly income of respondent, monthly family income per one family member, place of residence.</description><description descriptionType="TechnicalInfo">SPSS, 25</description><description descriptionType="SeriesInformation">Dataverse collection “Barometer of the Public Opinion Research Center” contains surveys conducted in 1989-1993 by the Public Opinion Research Center that studied Lithuanian public opinion about then relevant political, social and economic issues.</description><description descriptionType="Other">&lt;p>
The main language of the study is Lithuanian (lit).
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Standardized questionnaire was provided for the respondents in Lithuanian (lit).
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Dataset (data and metadata) “Barometer of the Public Opinion Resarch Center, June 1993” from 2021-07-27 to 2021-10-01 was available on the portal of Lithuanian Data Archive for Humanities and Social Sciences (LiDA) www.lidata.eu; object PID: www.lidata.eu/data/quant/LiDA_VNTC_0343; produced by Žvaliauskas Giedrius 2021-07-27. &lt;/p></description></descriptions><geoLocations><geoLocation><geoLocationPlace>Vilnius, Lithuania</geoLocationPlace></geoLocation></geoLocations><fundingReferences><fundingReference><funderName>Public Opinion Research Center at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences</funderName></fundingReference></fundingReferences></resource>