2231|DECEMBER 1996 BAROMETER

— Take holidays outside the usual residence in 1996. — Expectations of leaving the place of residence during Christmas. Main reason for the trip. — Opinion about Christmas parties. — Place or people with whom you usually spend Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve dinners. — Possession and amount of extraordinary expenses for Christmas. — Opinion on the main reason for the increase in the prices of food products at Christmas. — Assessment of the current economic situation of the country and prospective twelve months. — Assessment of the current situation of Spanish agriculture. Fundamental problems. — Assessment of the change that has meant for Spanish agriculture the adaptation to the conditions that the European Union marks. — A ten-year retrospective assessment of the living conditions of people working in the field and expectations for the coming years. — Evaluation of the benefit of Spain’s membership of the European Union for agriculture, fisheries and livestock. Hypothetical developments in these sectors in the event that Spain does not belong to the European Union. — Assessment of the Spanish Government’s defence of the interests of Spanish agriculture, fisheries and livestock. Opinion on the degree of influence of Spain on the decisions of the European Union in these matters. — Assessment of the Government’s policy in relation to agriculture, livestock and fisheries. — Evaluation of the current political situation of the country, retrospective and prospective twelve months. — Scale of trust in fundamental institutions of democracy. — Opinion on the equality of Spaniards in the application of laws. — Assessment of the current functioning of the courts of justice in Spain, retrospective and prospective for 2 or 3 years. — Opinion on the sufficiency of the means of the courts to carry out their work. — Opinion on the Government’s policy in relation to the Administration of Justice. — Opinion on the degree of trust of people in the judge. — Assessment of the current independence of Spanish judges. — Evolution of the opinion of the interviewee regarding the judges in recent years. — Degree of agreement with sentences relating to court decisions. — Evaluation of the criminalisation in Spain of crime. — Knowledge of the current controversy about the National Audience. — Degree of agreement with phrases related to the controversy about the National Audience. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Vote recall in general elections in June 1993 and March 1996. — One-year job expectations.