The Pulse of Europe (Poland)

Judgement on current situation in life and political and economic
development of the country in times of economic and social upheaval.

Topics: 1. Common part of the survey for all participating countries:
most important problems of the country; intent to emigrate and country
of choice; desired occupation for one´s own child; judgement on the job
of the president of the country; concerns and desires for the future;
assessment of current standard of living and comparison with the
situation five years ago and expected future development; judgement on
the situation of the country in comparison over time; preference for
freedom or social security; attitude to admission of undemocratic
parties; attitude to freedom of the press; perceived discrimination
against women; attitude to division of labor in raising children;
judgement on conduct of the parliamentary representatives and the
attitude to democracy in the country (scale); feeling of political
effectiveness; internal or external control; achievement orientation;
attitude to the national economy; demand for increased environmental
protection; desire for foreign support for one´s country; the
government as guarantor of equal opportunities and social security;
welfare state; necessity of the willingness to compromise in politics;
interest in politics at municipal level; diminishing interest in
political events; self-assessment as patriot; attitude to securing of
peace through military strength; readiness for national defense;
necessity of participation of one´s country in world politics; claims
to territory in neighboring countries; attitude to restriction on
immigration; attitude to use of military for restoration of world
order.

Religion and morals: importance of prayer and significance of God in
one´s own life; doubt in the existence of God; attitude to prohibition
of books critical of society and to sex magazines and films; attitude
to freedom of speech even for fascists; assessment of the general
trustworthiness of people; AIDS as punishment by God; representation of
traditional values in the area of family and marriage; attitude to
abortion; clear concepts of Good and Evil; perceived intensification of
class differences; assessment of personal things in common with
uneducated and persons of another race or ethnic affiliation;
satisfaction with one´s own financial situation.

Demography: party membership; union membership; residential status;
city size; religiousness.

2. Additional questions in this survey: judgement on political and
economic changes of the last few years; particularly positive and
negative changes; attitude to introduction of a multi-party system and
introduction of the free market economy; judgement on the speed of
transition to the free market economy; assessment of the influence of
the media and organizations as well as institutions on the country;
assumed influence of foreign nations on one´s country; attitude to
selected ethnic groups (Ukrainians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians and
Russians); perceived threat to the nation from within and without;
judgement on the effects of social changes on the standard of living,
moral concepts, public morals, dealing of people with one another and
on the relation of ethnic groups with each another; judgement on the
influence of the church; most reliable alliance partner for one´s
country; countries from which the greatest threat originates; attitude
to Gorbachev, Bush, the Pope, the UN and selected personalities of
public life; most important fears; preference for forgetting or calling
to account those responsible in the old regime; preference for
replacement of key managers of the old regime; attitude to
privatization of selected areas of the economy and civil service;
attitude to free establishing of prices; acceptance of unemployment or
preference for government guarantee of full-employment; attitude to a
government-specified profit limitation; attitude to borrowing to
finance durable economic goods; occupation within one´s own home; work
satisfaction; satisfaction with employer; preference for capitalism or
democratic (social) market economy; party preference; judgement on
current position of women in comparison to their position in the old
regime; preference for national defense in an alliance or with
individually concluded peace treaties; judgement on the level of
defense expenditures; attitude to export of weapons into third world
countries; attitude to advertising (scale); acceptance of advertising
in selected media; desired establishing of prices through the market,
production costs or government determination; judgement on passage of
Soviet troops from Germany through Poland; identification as European;
expected withdrawal of Soviet troops from Poland; attitude to the
European Community; judgement on selected western name-brand products
and company names; attitude to sale of foreign products in one´s own
country.