2616|JULY 2005 BAROMETER

— Evaluation of the economic situation of Spain, current, retrospective and prospective to one year. — Evaluation of the political situation in Spain, current, retrospective and prospective to one year. — Most important problems in Spain. Problems that, personally, affect you the most. — Assessment of the situation of primary and secondary education in Spain, current and retrospective to 10 years. — Appreciation of the attention that society pays to education. — Sharing responsibility for the social and personal development of young people among educational institutions or families. — Importance of various qualities/capacity of young people after compulsory schooling: self-confidence, coexistence, desire to study, understanding towards other countries,... — Purpose of the education system: develop to the maximum the skills of the best students or achieve a general basic level of knowledge. — Assessment of the work of primary and secondary teachers by the interviewee, students and society. — Importance of various teaching problems, and its definition as pyrmer and second problem: facilities, excess students, lack of resources, conflict, content of the programming, lack of discipline,... — More important measures to be taken to improve education: improvement of facilities, decrease the number of students, give more importance to exams, incorporate a second foreign language,... — Importance of various objectives in the reform of the education system: agreement between political parties, agreements with social groups and agreement with the Autonomous Communities. — Groups that must participate in the process of reforming the education system: students, parents, experts, trade unions, teachers, representatives of the concerted centres and others. — Degree of participation of collectives in the debate on the education system — Knowledge and scale of valuation of political leaders. — Evaluation of the management of the PSOE Government. — Evaluation of the PP’s performance in the opposition — Knowledge and scale of assessment of the ministers who form the Government. — Degree of confidence inspired by the President of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the General Secretary of the PP, Mariano Rajoy. — Intention to vote in general elections. — Scale of ideology of the interviewee. — Vote recall in March 2004 general elections. — Religious practice.