Solidarity in the Welfare State, 1997

The purpose of this survey is to obtain information for statistical and scientific assessment of the solidarity and responsibility of people towards their family, friends, work and other people. # The data material is obtained by means of interviews with selected persons in 1997. # #The following information is included from the interviews: #- Degree of urbanization. #- Sex. #- Age. #- School education. #- Vocational education. #- Main occupation. #- Public/private employment. #- Number of working hours per week. #- Previous employment of unemployed people. #- Period since last employment. #- Single or cohabiting. #- Occupation of spouse/cohabitant. #- Public/private employment of spouse/cohabitant. #- Gross family income. #- Friendships with colleagues. #- Who these friends are. #- Attitude to mixing private life and working life. #- Knowledge of colleagues with personal problems. #- Attitude to colleagues with personal problems. #- Behaviour towards new colleagues. #- Attitude to social life at the place of work. #- Attitude to economic rewards. #- Attitude to rewards in the form of influence and prestige. #- Willingness to work shorter time with wage reduction out of # consideration for the unemployed. #- Attitude to easy jobs. #- Willingness to work with long-term unemployed or people in easy # jobs. #- Attitude to positive special treatment. #- Membership of trade organizations. #- Reasons for membership. #- Number of children living at home. #- Minding of the children. #- Time consumption on various activities. #- Number of hours awake together with the children. #- Activities together with the children. #- How the respondent would prioritize 10 extra free hours a week # on selected activities. #- Whether and why parents should influence children's circle of # friends. #- Which qualities it is important to encourage children to learn. #- Demands on spouse/cohabitant. #- Whether the respondent has been through a divorce. #- Causes of this divorce. #- Contact with children of whom the respondent does not have # custody. #- Responsibility towards these children. #- Assessment of the relation to these children. #- Time of transport to adult children of a former marriage. #- Frequency of contact with adult children of a former marriage. #- Assessment of the relation to these children. #- Time of transport to parents/parents-in-law. #- Frequency of contact with parents/parents-in-law. #- Assessment of how parents/parents-in-law are doing. #- Willingness to let resource weak parents/parents-in-law move in # permanently. #- Hesitations about this. #- Assessment of the relation to parents/parents-in-law. #- Contact to grandchildren. #- Contact to other relatives. #- Assessment of the relation to grandchildren. #- Assessment of the relation to other relatives. #- How long the respondent has had his/her friends. #- Where the respondent knows the friends from. #- How often the respondent sees his/her friends. #- Time of transport to best friends. #- Assessment of the friends compared with the respondent # himself/herself. #- How formal/relaxed is the relation to the friends. #- Willingness to invite friends on Christmas Eve if they are # alone. #- How close is the contact with the friends. #- How binding are friendships. #- Whether the respondent only sees the friends because of common # interests/wish. #- How well the respondent knows his/her neighbours. #- How relaxed/formal is the relation to the neighbours. #- Willingness to invite neighbours on Christmas Eve. #- Degree of interest in the neighbours. #- Degree of commitment towards the neighbours. #- People the respondent does not want as neighbours. #- How much the respondent helps other people with practical # matters. #- With child-minding. #- By lending things. #- By giving emotional support/listening to problems. #- How much the respondent helps other people financially. #- Willingness to do this. #- Reasons for not helping others financially. #- Whether the respondent takes time off from work to help # others. #- Willingness to do this. #- Reasons for not doing this. #- To which a degree the respondent helps people undergoing a # crisis by letting them move in. #- Willingness to do this. #- Reasons for not doing this. #- Whom in the family/circle of friends the respondent sees # at Christmas. #- Whom the respondent goes on holiday or weekends with. #- Whom the respondent participates in activities with. #- Whether the respondent supports voluntary relief organizations. #- Which weak groups the respondent thinks need more help. #- Which groups get too much help. #- Interest in making a personal effort to help the weak groups. #- Reasons for not being interested. #- Which demands should be put on people who receive help. #- Attitude to relief work towards people in Third World countries. #- Knowledge of immigrants/refugees from Third World countries. #- Attitude to immigrants and refugees. #- Whether the respondent personally takes contact to # immigrants/refugees to help them. #- Reasons for not doing this. #- Participation in voluntary social work. #- Reasons for participating. #- Attitudes to environmental questions and ecology. #- Whether the respondent buys ecological products. #- Whether the respondent in other ways considers the environment. #- Attitude to moonlighting. #- Whether the respondent moonlights. #- Whether the respondent has ever had work done by moonlighters. #- Attitude to the EU and sense of responsibility towards citizens # in other EU-countries. #- Attitude to the right 'balance' between rights for the # individual and responsibility towards society. #- Attitude to an extension of the support responsibility of the # families. #- Attitude to the size of various transfer payments. #- Which transfer payments the respondent or close relatives # receive. #- Attitude to primary school. #- Attitude to public day-care. #- Attitude to public health services. #- Attitude to public elder care. #- Attitude to the basic fields of responsibility of the welfare # state. #- Attitude to user payment. #- Attitude to the relation between equality and the welfare state. #- Attitude to public retrenchments. #- What is reasonable or not reasonable to pay tax to. #- Attitudes to basic values: equality, liberty, respect for # authorities. #- Assessment of whether, all things considered, we live in a # fairly solidary society