2448|FEBRUARY 2002 BAROMETER

— Main problems that exist in Spain. Problems that affect you the most personally. — Currency with which you have paid your purchases since January 1, 2002. — Frequency with which you have used the credit card in the last month. — Degree of difficulty in knowing what things are worth in euros, compared to the ease it had with the peseta. — Use of some kind of calculator to translate prices from euros to pesetas. Often you use it. — Comfort you feel with the euro compared to the one you felt with the peseta. — According to phrases about how the putting into circulation of the euro affects its Europeanist and nationalist sentiment. — Opinion on whether prices have risen since the entry into circulation of the euro. — Opinion on whether the euro will be beneficial or harmful to Spain and the European Union. — Assessment of the degree of inequality that currently exists in Spain between men and women. Comparison with inequalities that existed ten years ago. — Comparison of the situation of women, with respect to men, in different respects: wages, prospects for career advancement, opportunities to find a job, stability in the workplace, access to education, access to positions of responsibility in enterprises and access to positions of responsibility in political life. — Comparison of the degree of difficulty women have, compared to men, to find work and to promote themselves in different professional fields. — Agreement with phrases about the degree of difficulty of women to prove their professional worth. — Characteristics that he considers more important for a man to triumph in his work. Features for a woman. — Agreement with phrases about the role of women. Family ideal. — Situation of current coexistence of the interviewee. To those who live together as a couple: distribution of tasks at home. — Knowledge of the offer made by the President of the Government to Convergència i Unió to enter the Government of the Nation. Assessment of the importance for Spain of this possibility. — Knowledge of the resignation of Nicolás Redondo Terreros as General Secretary of the Socialist Party of the Basque Country. Assessment of the consequences that this resignation may have for the PSOE and for the Basque Country. — Knowledge of the ‘Local Pact’ that would imply, if carried out, an increase in the competences of the municipalities decreasing those of the autonomous governments. Assessment of that measure. — Evaluation of the Spanish economic situation, current and prospective to one year. — Evaluation of the Spanish political situation, current and prospective to one year. — Scale of political ideology. — Remembrance of vote in the general elections of March 2000. — Vote fidelity in March 2000 general elections. — Electoral volatility in general elections in March 2000.