2312|LATINOBAROMETER 1998 (III)

— Assessment of the economic, country and personal situation: current, retrospective and prospective to one year. — Attitude, of hope or concern, towards the next year. — Most important problem in Spain. — Comparison of the standard of living that the parents of the interviewee had with theirs and with the one who, he believes, their children will have. — Opinion on the State’s ability to solve the problems of our society. — Opinion on which activities have to be mostly in the hands of the State or private initiative: health, basic education, electrical services, pensions and telephone services. — Opinion on the amount of public expenditure in: infrastructure, health, citizen security, education, defence, unemployment and pensions. — Degree of agreement with different phrases on state intervention in the economy and on the role of education in getting out of poverty. — Opinion on the influence of foreign investment on the economic development of the country. — Opinion on the degree (scale) to which the Asian crisis is affecting the economy of our country in general and yours in particular. — Degree of trust in others. — Evolution, in the last year, of poverty, drug trafficking, crime, drug addiction and corruption. — Assessment of different political regimes. — Degree of satisfaction with the functioning of democracy in Spain. — Opinion on the consolidation of our democracy. — Willingness to defend the democratic system if it is threatened. — Opinion on the influence of the vote to a certain party on the march of the country. — Opinion on the equality of Spaniards before the law. — Degree of interest in politics. — Feelings produced by politics. — Degree of trust in institutions. — Knowledge of: Mercosur (Southern Common Market), NAFTA (Free Trade Treaty/FTA), Pact or Andean Group and the European Community or European Union. — Opinion on the European Community, the United States and Japan. — Opinion on which is the most friendly country of Spain in Ibero-America and in the world. — Country of Ibero-America that you would like to visit. — Degree of importance for Spain of existing trade with the United States, with the countries of Ibero-America and with Japan. — Institutions that have more power in Spain. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Vote recall in the general elections of March 1996. — Frequency with which: he follows the political news, talks politics with his friends, and tries to convince someone of his political ideas. — Willingness to participate in different forms of political action. — Often working on issues that affect the interviewee or their community. — Organisations in which it participates. Assessment of its degree of influence on the actions of the organisations in which it participates. — Opinion on which organisations people’s participation may have any influence on. — Perception of the extent to which the decisions taken in: the Parliament of the nation, the Government of the nation, its Town Hall and the Government of its Autonomous Community. — Assessment of the degree to which Spaniards are: enforcers of the laws, demanding of their rights, aware of their obligations, solidarity and honest. — Opinion on obedience, without exception, to the laws. — Groups of people you would not like to have as neighbors. — Knowledge of people in their environment who: they have pretended to be sick to not work, they paid less taxes than they were entitled to, they benefited from a subsidy that did not correspond to them or that they have hidden products so as not to pay in the supermarket box. Degree of justification for these behaviours. Opinion on the evolution, in the last five years, of this type of behaviour. — Opinion on the volume of Spaniards who pay their taxes. — Reasons why people don't pay their taxes. — Opinion on the state of the environment in Spain. — Priority between economic development and environmental protection. — More important environmental problems that would have to be addressed immediately. — Willingness to sacrifice personally to achieve a pollution-free environment. — Opinion on the quality of basic/primary education, middle/secondary education and higher education. — Frequency of attendance at religious offices. — Coverage of the salary, or the total household income, with respect to your needs. — Number of people in the interviewee’s household. — Level of study of the interviewee and the head of household: age they were when they finished their studies and years they spent studying. — Characterisation of the employment situation of the interviewee and the head of household. — Domestic equipment in the interviewee’s home.