Living Condition Survey Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia 1999 (Individuals)

The study gives updated and policy-relevant information on living conditions in the three countries, with special focus on poverty and economic resources, housing and residential environment, education, the labour market (unemployment, working conditions), social integration, health (contact with health institutions, coverage of medical insurance, private caretakers etc.), crime and security.
Topics:
1.) Housing conditions/residential environment
2.) Labour Force
3.) Economic self-assessment
4.) Income
5.) Working conditions
6.) Health condition
7.) Crime, security and violence
8.) Migration
9.) Attitudes, values and political views
10.) Social contacts
Demography
1.) Dwelling type; owner of dwelling; becoming owner of dwelling; quality of amenities; problems paying for rent or communal services; owing money for rent or communal services; number of rooms available to the household; dwelling space in square meters; damp/humid rooms and ability to keep home adequately warm; dwellings’ exposure to noise; exhausts from traffic/industry in vicinity of dwelling; respondents’ satisfaction with housing conditions; condition of dwelling; plans for removal to another dwelling; reasons for planning of removal to another dwelling; supply with consumer goods.
2.) Household members’ occupation last week; absence of occupation last week; reason for absence of occupation last week; actively seeking work; reasons for not seeking work; ways of seeking work; number of months seeking work; general availability for work; paid work in last 12 months; household members’ reason for stopping work; status in employment; full-time or part-time job; working hours at main job; additional jobs; working hours at additional jobs; seeking additional work.
3.) Capacity to get things that people sometimes cannot afford; economic situation of household; possibility to raise money for a sudden need; current economic situation compared with situation 5 years ago; assessment of future economic situation..
4.) Main contributor to household budget; wage income; self employment income non-agricultural; self employment income agricultural; non-government transfer income; government transfer income in total and income of pension, unemployment benefit, child benefit, social assistance and housing support; property income; other monetary income; total income; income of last calendar month is typical income; employment status of household (employee or self-employed); received benefits through employer or workplace; received in-kind support from relatives, friends, churches or charity organisations; household member owning/renting a farm; household living on farm; farming type of household; garden or land available for subsistence agriculture; household receives food from relatives or friends; household practices aspects of subsistence economy.
5.) Currently employed; paid or unpaid employee; occupational status; type of employment contract; public or private ownership of company; vocational or professional training last 12 months; work schedule; preference for working hours per week; inconveniences respondent is exposed to; stressful and unhealthy working conditions; number of employees at workplace; assessment of good and bad aspects of working conditions; delays in receiving salary; longest delay in the last 12 months; assessment of job security for the next 2 years; working conditions compared with 5 years ago.
6.) State of health in general; chronic illness or disabilities; afflictions in daily life; contact with health care institutions (public or private), reason for visit and mode of paying for service; duration of habitation in health institutions; health problems during last week; intake of sedatives or psychotropics last 6 months, prescribed by a doctor; medical services not used because of lack of money the last 12 months; health insurance of household members; health insurance of respondent; respondent has to pay for health insurance; health-conscious behaviour; consumption of alcoholic beverages (alcohol consumption); smoking habits; someone offered drugs to respondent the last 5 years; place where drugs have been offered to respondent.
7.) Experienced violence and reported to police; fear of assaults or threats; comportment of crime protection; household members are in possession of insurances
8.) Country of birth; respondent lived in dwelling since birth; occupancy in dwelling; duration of stay in community; place where respondent lived before moving to current community; type of residential area respondent lived before; reason for moving to current community; intention to move to another community; preferred place/country of residence; main reason to move away.
9.) General interest in politics; participation on political issues; trust in public institutions and organisations: parliament, president of the state, government, church, armed forces, trade unions, courts, police, television and radio, national businessmen, foreign companies, press; attitude to differences between income groups; estimation of discrimination of women in working life; attitude to statements concerning future, politics and family; opinion to public authorities
10.) Age of moving out of parent’s house; currently living with parents or step-parents; parents’ education; marital status; living with spouse, partner or no partner; frequency of contacts with parents, relatives, friends and acquaintances; possibility of getting help/support from friends and relatives; unpaid care for someone else; reason for caring someone else; voluntary or non-voluntary care; membership in different organisations.

Demography: Sex; age; relation of household members; ethnicity; citizenship; respondent applied for citizenship in a Baltic country; household type; type of child care; household expenditure on childcare; highest level of general education of household members; highest vocational education of household members; household members currently attending school/studying; reasons for not attending school.