EVS - European Values Study 1999 - Romania

Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of
Europeans.

Topics:

Leisure time: importance of areas of life;
feeling of happiness; memberships and honorary activities in clubs,
parties, organizations, citizens´ initiatives and occupation
organizations; interactions in leisure time; tolerance regarding
minorities, those of other beliefs and foreigners; inter-human trust;
self-effectiveness (scale); general contentment with life (scale).

Work: importance of selected characteristics of occupational
work (scale); personal employment; general work satisfaction (scale);
self-determination at work (scale); work ethic (scale); attitude to
achievement-based pay and following work instructions without
criticism; priority of nationals over foreigners as well as men over
women with shortage of jobs; assumed priority of individual or social
reasons for the situation of economic need of individuals; freedom of
the unemployed to reject a job offer (scale).

Politics: party preference; attitude to foreign workers in one´s
country; fear of the future; assimilation and integration of
immigrants; concept of a just society (more welfare state or
liberalism, scale); interest in political news in the media;
individualism and thinking of the community; interest in politics;
political participation; self-assessment on a left-right continuum
(scale); self-responsibility or governmental provision (scale);
attitude to competition freedom and entrepreneur freedom (scale);
satisfaction with democracy; attitude to the current political system
of the country and judgment on the political system of the country ten
years ago (scale); preference for a democratic political system or for
strong leadership of an individual politician (scale); attitude to
democracy (scale); loss of national characteristics through unification
of Europe.

Religion: individual or general standard for good and evil; current
and perhaps earlier religious denomination; current frequency of church
attendance and at the age of 12; importance of religious celebration at
birth, marriage and funeral; self-assessment of religiousness; ability
of the religious community in moral questions, with problems in family
life, spiritual needs and current social problems of the country;
belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, sin, telepathy and
reincarnation; belief in God or nihilism (scale); importance of God in
one´s own life (scale); comfort and strength through belief; prayer and
meditation; frequency of prayer; possession and belief in lucky charms
or talisman (scale); reading and observing horoscopes; attitude to
separation of church (religion) and state (scale).

Family and marriage: important criteria for a successful marriage
(scale); attitude to marriage and the traditional family structure
(scale); attitude to one´s own children (scale); attitude to
traditional understanding of one´s role of man and woman in occupation
and family (scale); attitude to a traditional or liberal parent-child
relation; importance of educational goals; attitude to abortion.

Society: preference for individual freedom or social equality;
post-materialism (scale); preferred social development (scale);
attitude to technical progress; trust in institutions; observing
individual human rights in the country; attitude to environmental
protection (scale); closeness to family, the neighborhood, people in
the region, countrymen, Europeans and humanity; closeness to older
people, the unemployed, foreigners and handicapped well as readiness to
make an effort for these groups; personal reasons for assistance with
older people as well as foreigners; identification with the city, the
region, the nation, Europe and the world; national pride. morals and
sexuality: moral attitudes (tax evasion, theft, use of drugs, lying,
bribe money, corruption, euthanasia, suicide, environmental pollution,
alcohol at the wheel; scale); moral attitudes to partnership and
sexuality (homosexuality, abortion, divorce, promiscuity; scale);
assumed spreading of immoral behavior in the population of the country
(scale); attitude to punishment dependent on the situation of the
culprit or the victim (scale).

Demography: sex; year of birth; marital status and living together
with a partner; number of children; school education; age at
termination of school training; employment; superior function and span
of control; company size; occupation (ISCO88) and occupational
position; length of unemployment; size of household; ages of children
in household; head of household; characteristics of head of household;
household income.

Additional country specific questions included.

Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate.

Also coded: city size; region; date of interview; length of interview.