New Democracies Barometer I - Autumn 1991
Fieldwork in Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania,
and Slovenia. Questions exclusively of concern in post-Communist societies
were not asked in Austria. Respondents in Czechoslovakia, then a single
country, have been subdivided to produce separate Czech and Slovak responses.
For analysis, see SPP 204.
Q1 Do you have enough income from your regular job?
- Definitely yes
- Just enough
- Not quite enough
- Definitely not
- No answer
Q2 Do you or anyone in your household do the following?
a) Spend some time each week growing food
b) Spend a lot of time building, renovating house
c) Queue for more than an hour a day at a shop
Q3 a) Do your or anyone in your household help friends or relatives
by such
things as helping repair or build their house, using your car to take
people places, helping grow food or standing in queues?
- Yes
- No
b) How often do your or others in your household do this?
- Often
- Sometimes
- Occasionally
- Hardly ever
Q4 a) It often helps to have connections who can do things for you.
In the
last year or two, have you or anyone in your household gone to someone
to
get things done you could not get in the ordinary way?
- Yes
- No
b) Did you have to pay much to get help?
- Very expensive
- Not very expensive
- No payment
- No answer
Q5 a) Are you sometimes asked to do favours for other people?
- Yes
- No
b) Do people offer money to do favours?
- Often
- Occasionally
- Never
- No answer
Q6 People sometimes use foreign currency, such as Dollars or Deutsche
Mark,
to buy what they want. In the past year have you bought things in this
country by using foreign currency?
-Yes
- No
Q7 Which of the following economies in most important to your standard
of
living?
- First economy job
- Benefits from employer
- Household production
- Help from friends
- Free help from connections
- Second economy job
- Money from connections
- Foreign currency
- Don't know
Q8 Which of these economies is second most important?
- First economy job
- Benefits from employer
- Household production
- Help from friends
- Free help from connections
- Second economy job
- Money from connections
- Foreign currency
- Don't know
Q9 a) Are you doing something to improve your economic situation or
do you
plan to do something?
- Doing something
- Planning something
- No
- No answer
9b) [Actions to improve economic situation; several replies permitted]
- Start a business, shop, farm
- Get a job in another town or country
- Change employers
- Work overtime
- Second job
- Learn a new skill
Q10 In the past year has your family been able to...
- Save money
- Just get by
- Have to spend some savings
- Have to borrow
- No answer
Q11 All in all, how do you rate the economic situation of your family
today?
- Very satisfactory
- Fairly satisfactory
- Not very satisfactory
- Very unsatisfactory
- No answer
Q12 When you compare your overall household financial situation today
with
five years ago, would you say it was then...
- Much better
- A little better
- Much the same
- A little worse
- A lot worse
- No answer
Q13 What do you think the economic situation of your household will
be in
five years time?
- Much better
- A little better
- Much the same
- A little worse
- A lot worse
- No answer
Q14 a) Do you have a regular job
- Employed
- Student
- Housewife
- Unemployed
- Pensioner
- No answer
b) Are you worried about unemployment?
- Yes, very worried
- Somewhat worried
- No
- No answer
Q15 If you had the choice what type of employment would you prefer?
- State enterprise
- Self-employed
- Private enterprise
- Foreign enterprise in this country
- Any private company
- No answer
Q16 How long will it take until you will be economically content?
1-2 years
3-5 years
6-10 years
More than 10 years
Never
Can't say
No answer
Already content
Q17 Here is a scale for ranking how the economy works. (Show scale for
Approval/Disapproval running from +100 at top to -100).
a) Where on this scale would you put the socialist economy before the
revolution?
b) Where on this scale would you put our present economic system?
c) Where on this scale would you put our economic system in five years
time?
Q18 Here is a list of problems facing the government.
16a) Which do you think is the most important problem?
- Inflation
- Unemployment
- Criminal order
- Private ownership
- Treatment of minorities
- Nomenklatura influence
- Relations with other countries
- Social security
- Taxes
- No answer
18b) Which do you think is the second most important problem?
Q19 What would you say about the relations between nationalities and
ethnic
groups in the country?
- No problems
- All right; we can handle whatever problem arises
- Not so good; difficulties
- Bad
- No answer
Q20 a) Which of these terms best describes how you usually think of
yourself?
- Local
- Region
- State
- Europe
- Other
- No answer
b) And do you feel close to another group?
Q21 To which religious group or community do you belong?
- Roman Catholic
- Protestant
- Orthodox
- Jewish
- Others
- None
- No answer
Q22 How often do you attend church?
- Nearly every Sunday
- Feast days
- Occasionally
- Hardly ever
Q23 Here is a scale for ranking how our system of government works.
(Show scale for Approval/Disapproval running from +100 at top to -100).
a) Where on this scale would you put the former communist regime?
b) Where on this scale would you put the present system with free elections
and many parties?
c) Where on this scale would you put our system of governing in five
years
time?
Q24 Do you feel close to one political party or movement or not?
[If yes,] how close do you feel to this party?
- Very close
- Somewhat
- Not very close
[Questions and answers to party vote for on Sunday and party never vote
for in Multi-National NDB file]
Q25 a) In the next year, do you think it very likely that there will
be
demonstrations and protests in the streets about...
- Unemployment
- Inflation
- Political situation
b) How likely is it that you will take part in such a demonstration?
- Very likely
- Maybe
- Not very likely
- Definitely not
- No answer
Q26 How likely is it that Parliament and parties will be suspended next
year?
- Very likely
- Maybe
- Not very likely
- Impossible
- Don't know
Q27 Would you approve or disapprove suspending Parliament and parties?
- Approve
- Disapprove
- No answer/ not asked
Q28 On the whole, are you very satisfied, not very satisfied, or not
at all
satisfied with the life you lead?
- Very satisfied
- Not very satisfied
- Not at all satisfied
- No answer
Q29 On the whole, are you very satisfied, not very satisfied, or not
at all
satisfied with family and friends?
- Very satisfied
- Not very satisfied
- Not at all satisfied
- No answer
Q30 On the whole, are you very satisfied, not very satisfied, or not
at all
satisfied with your housing?
- Very satisfied
- Not very satisfied
- Not at all satisfied
- No answer
Q31 On the whole, are you very satisfied, not very satisfied, or not
at all
satisfied with your job?
- Very satisfied
- Not very satisfied
- Not at all satisfied
- No answer
Q32 On the whole, are you very satisfied, not very satisfied, or not
at all
satisfied with the environment?
- Very satisfied
- Not very satisfied
- Not at all satisfied
- No answer
DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS
S 1. Gender:
S 2. Marital status:
Single/ Married / Separated, divorced/ Widow-Widower
S 3. Age in years
S4A. Size of town (Institute to code)
Rural, village up to 5,000
5,001 to 20,000
20,001-100,000
100,000-1,000,000
> 1 million
National capital
S4B. Type of settlement (Institute to code)
Rural village
Village near city
Small rural town
Small industrial town
Medium town, little industry
Medium town, much industry
Big city, central
Big city, suburbs
S 5. Adults living in household who have an income: N adults
S 6A. What is your own average monthly income? -----
(If interviewee is not head of household, repeat question for head of
household. EITHER record actual sum OR show card with income categories)
(If no income, code 0 = No personal income)
S6B. And for your household, altogether what is the total monthly income?
(EITHER record actual sum OR show card with income categories)
Does your household have any of the following? Yes/No
S7 Colour TV
S8 Washing machine
S9 Telephone
S10 Car
S11 Dacha
S12. What is your main source of income
- Student
- Fulltime Employee
- Part-time employee
- Family helper
- Unemployed
- Pensioner
- On social welfare
- Widow Pension
- Housewife
- Farmer
S13 What is your occupation?
- Professional
- Manager, proprietor
- Executive non-manual
- Qualified non-manual
- Non-qualified non-manual
- Non-manual not classified
- Master foreman
- Qualified manual
- Manual, non-qualified
- Agricultural workers
- Qualified all levels
S14. What is the highest educational qualification you have obtained
(or
expect to) obtain?
- None
- Vocational
- Up to university entrance
- University or above
S15. How old were you (or will you be) when you finish fulltime education?
---- (In years)
S16 What is the total number of persons in the household?
S17 What type of housing do you live in?
- Own flat
- Rented flat
- Private co-operative
- Own house
- Rented house
- State owned.
Interviewer to code
S18. Region
Date of interview.