Attitudes of Elites and Population towards the EU Development: Lithuanian Population Survey, January - February 2016
type: Dataset
creator: Matonytė, Irmina
creator: Gaidys, Vladas
  type: Person
  given name: Vladas
  family name: Gaidys
  affiliation: ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania [Project Member]
creator: Kirslytė, Monika
  type: Person
  given name: Monika
  family name: Kirslytė
  affiliation: ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania [Project Member]
creator: Šumskas, Gintaras
author: Matonytė, Irmina
author: Gaidys, Vladas
  type: Person
  given name: Vladas
  family name: Gaidys
  affiliation: ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania [Project Member]
author: Kirslytė, Monika
  type: Person
  given name: Monika
  family name: Kirslytė
  affiliation: ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania [Project Member]
author: Šumskas, Gintaras
date published: 2022-10-07
date modified: 2025-03-10
version: 1
description: The purpose of the study: to explore the attitudes of Lithuanian population towards the development of European identity and citizenship in the context of EU change and enlargement. Major investigated questions: respondents were asked whether they support Lithuania's membership in the EU and how membership in this organisation brings benefits and disadvantages to Lithuania. They were asked whether they voted in the European Parliament elections and whether they often watch TV, listen to the radio or read daily newspapers to find out about political news. Next, they were asked to rate the influence of different people on important national issues (ordinary citizen; Member of the European Parliament - 11 choices in total). The survey went on to analyse whether it is more important to grow a competitive European economy within global markets or to ensure better social protection for all its citizens. They were asked to reveal the extent to which they associate themselves with their region, their country or Europe (EU). Given the block of questions, they were asked what it means to be Lithuanian (to be Christian; to follow Lithuanian cultural traditions - 8 choices in total). Given the list of threats, they were asked to rate the risk those threats pose to the EU (non-EU immigrants; EU expansion by including Turkey - 5 choices in total). Respondents had the opportunity to assess European unification and to indicate what it means to be European (being a Christian; following the European cultural traditions - 8 choices in total). Then, trust in the EU and in the ability of Lithuanian institutions to take the right decisions was assessed. The aim was to find out whether respondents felt that decision-makers at the EU level did not take Lithuania's interests into account sufficiently, and whether the interests of some EU Member States were given too much weight. The survey went on to analyse whether different policy areas should be dealt with at the national level or EU lev…
keywords: Social Sciences
keywords: Elites and leadership
keywords: International politics and organisations
keywords: Political behaviour and attitudes
keywords: elite
keywords: european union
keywords: european integration
keywords: identity
keywords: democracy
keywords: defence
temporal coverage: 2016-01-25/2016-02-08
license: https://lida.dataverse.lt/api/datasets/:persistentId/versions/1.2/customlicense
included in data catalog: Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)
publisher: Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)
provider: Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)
funder: Research Council of Lithuania (Researcher teams' projects)
spatial coverage: Lithuania
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distribution: LiDA_SurveyData_0493_Internal_documents_v1.tar.gz
distribution: LiDA_SurveyData_0493_Questionnaire_v1.pdf

Matonytė, Irmina
type: Person
given name: Irmina
family name: Matonytė
affiliation: Department of Economics and Politics, ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania [Project leader]

Šumskas, Gintaras
type: Person
given name: Gintaras
family name: Šumskas
affiliation: ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania [Project Member]

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