Living Condition Survey Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia 1999 (Household roster)

The study gives updated and policy-relevant information on living conditions in the three countries, with special focus on housing and residential environment, the labour market (unemployment, working conditions), and income. (Household roster)
Topics:
1.) Housing conditions/residential environment
2.) Labour Force
3.) Economic self-assessment
4.) Income
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.
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.