Sonar Postal Survey 1993: January

#Sonar Opinion Polls: #-------------------- #From August 1989 Sonar has carried out a number of opinion polls, i.e. surveys of attitudes and habits of life of the adult Danish population. The opinion polls have been carried out regularly in the period (approx. 10 times a year), and each opinion poll includes about six different subjects as well as the question of the respondent's voting intention at a hypothetical general election on the day of the interview. # The opinion polls have been carried out in collaboration with the daily paper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten. The subjects for the individual opinion poll are agreed upon at a meeting between the editorial staff of Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten and Sonar; however, the wording of the questions is the sole responsibility of Sonar. # The following background information is included in the data material: #The household: #- Total number of persons #- Sex and age of the household members #- Type of dwelling #- Car in household #- Geocode-2 # #The respondent: #- Year of birth #- Sex #- Gainful employment #- Designation of occupation #- Membership of a trade organization #- If yes: Which organization #- Vote at the last general election #- Driving in own car # #Sonar Postal Surveys: #--------------------- #In addition to these opinion polls Sonar has carried out a number of postal surveys, often in connection with one of the individual opinion polls. # #The themes of this postal survey are: Whether some unemployed people refuse to work; attitude to the size of the unemployment benefit; whether the respondent has received unemployment benefit or cash assistance according to the Public Assistance Act within the last year; whether the authorities have done enough to make the respondent self-supporting again; attitude to a number of statements on receiving cash assistance; whether people on cash assistance receive too little, an adequate amount of or too much money; attitude to a number of statements on the Danish social security system; whether the respondent is willing to accept a tax increase in order to improve the social security benefits; and whether private citizens to an increasing extent should supplement the authorities as regards assistance and guidance and financial support to the badly situated, or whether the social work should exclusively be handled by the authorities by means of the revenue of taxation