Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.5

Identities and Values. Financial services and costumer protection. Time
use.

Topics: Most important fundamental values (family, health, work,
friendship, money, a partner, religion, education/studies, spare
time/holidays, sport, sexuality, arts/culture, politics); personally
important socio-political values (peace, respect for human life, human
rights, tolerance, the rule of law, individual freedom, democracy,
religion, solidarity, support for others, equality, self-fulfilment,
respect for other cultures); values best represent own country, the EU,
the United States and the Arab World (peace, religion, democracy,
human, rights, rule of law, respect for life, individual freedom,
solidarity, respect, cultures, tolerance, self-fulfilment, equality);
perceived cultural differences (human rights, democracy, the rule of
law, peace, individual, freedom, respect for other cultures, tolerance,
respect for human life, solidarity, support for others, equality,
self-fulfilment, religion); social-political attitudes (tolerance,
criminals to be punished severely, participation in politics, protect
the environment, equality, freedom, free competition for economic
prosperity, state intervention, economic growth, immigrants, criminals
need help and understanding); preferred activities (sports, music, arts
and culture, club/association membership, protection of the
environment, politics, religion, helping others, preserving
traditions/customs, life long learning); voluntary social activities
(helping others, protection of the environment, sport, preserving
traditions/customs, music, arts and culture, life long learning,
religion, club/association membership, politics); ways to be involved
in activities; motivation for learning foreign languages; topics of
interest (lifestyles, sports, arts and culture, music, politics and
economics in own country EU states, in the rest of the world); mutual
affinity across the nations of Europe; top financial priorities; views
regarding finances and financial services; financial products and
services used by new Europeans; current accounts; deposit accounts;
chequebook; credit card life insurance; private pension plan; stocks,
shares; collective investments; bonds; mortgage, second mortgage
long-term loan to buy a car; long-term loan for another purpose;
overdraft facility on current account; using ICT tools for financial
transactions; telephone payments; e-payment methods; cross-border trade
in financial services; obstacles in cross-border trade; preferred means
of payment; reasons for choosing non-cash payment methods; electronic
purse; previous experience is practically inexistent in the accession
countries; use of electronic purse; difficulties with financial
services; changing banks; comparing charges and features of banking
services; information about the costs of a loan; insurance coverage;
concept of mortgage; disputes with bank or insurance companies; banking
and financial transactions; security of financial transactions;
protection of confidential information; costs of a bank account;
clarity of information received from financial institutions; marketing
techniques; utility and risks involved; credit rating; indebtedness;
rights and disputes; trust in telephone and Internet banking
transactions; financial decisions and advices; harmonised consumer
protection; satisfaction with major life domains; satisfaction with
availability of time; time spent on paid, unpaid and voluntary work;
length of planned working time reduction; ways to reduce working hours;
intentions with the extra free time; barriers to reduce time spent with
paid work; financial pressures; opinions about part-time employment;
methods for combining paid work with other activities; perceived
importance; options available at one’s current job; strategies for
combining paid work with other activities; satisfaction with strategies
employed for combining paid work and other activities; time-related
workplace benefits; taking time off work for different activities; look
after sick or elderly members of their family; study or take courses;
be with their partners, children or grandchildren; own benefit (leisure
activities, travel, arts, music); participate in volunteer activities;
access to childcare facilities; being prepared to pay more taxes or
social welfare for extra benefits; other activities that impact daily
time use, training, courses, adult education, life-long learning);
participation in training courses; costs of training; time off work for
training; time spent with training; average length of the training
workers recently participated; satisfaction with working conditions;
influence in deciding how to do one’s work; good career prospects;
being well paid; work too demanding and stressful; tight deadlines;
working in dangerous or unhealthy conditions; risk of losing the job;
supposition of not getting fired / no risk of losing the job; finding
the same kind of work at the same salary; speed of change in work;
earlier retirement; effective and desired retirement age; strategies
close to retirement; postponing retirement or reducing the pension;
postponing retirement to gain time off and reasons of disinterest;
spending the time gained through a retirement postponement trade-off;
reasons why postponement of retirement is not attractive; retirement
and pensions; having grandchildren; looking after grandchildren on a
regular basis; general role of the grandparents in childcare.

Demography: Nationality; marital status; left-right self placement;
age; age at termination of school training; educational level; head and
size of household; occupational status; employment in the public
sector; position in the household; size of community; religion; church
attendance; income of the household; party preference; gender.