New Baltic Barometer I, 1993

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P>The <i>New Baltic Barometer</i> (NBB) was launched in 1993 to reflect opinions in three multi-ethnic societies, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, incorporated into the Soviet Union as a consequence of the Second World War. There were six NBB surveys conducted from 1993 to 2004, with many questions repeated to show trends. From 2001, the NBB was merged with the <i>New Democracies Barometer</i> to form <i>New Europe Barometer</i> (available from the UK Data Archive under GN 33355). Therefore the last two NBB surveys are available under SN 5242 and SN 5243 which are part of the New Europe Barometer series.<br>
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Whereas political rhetoric often describes all people of a given nationality as thinking alike, election results show differences of opinion. The NBB documents differences within every nationality in the region along lines of age, education, economic circumstances and gender. Differences within each nationality may be paralleled by similarities between nationalities. Comparisons with the Russians in Russia can be made through the <i>New Russia Barometer</i> (available at the Archive under GN 33374) survey.<br>
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Further information about the NBB survey series is available on the <a href="http://www.balticvoices.org/index.php" title ="Baltic Voices">Baltic Voices</a> web site. Additional information about all the Barometer survey series managed by the CSPP can be found on the <a href="http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cspp/catalog13_0.shtml" title ="CSPP Barometer Surveys">CSPP Barometer Surveys</a> web site.<br><br><i>New Baltic Barometer I, 1993</i> is the first study in the series. The survey was the largest systematic comparative social science study ever undertaken in the region. The questionnaire collected a large amount of data about language, identity and political demands of special relevance in the multi-national Baltic states. It also collected large amounts of information about household economic conditions, economic evaluations and expectations, attitudes toward the old Soviet system and hopes for the future, and social and demographic data. <br><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The questionnaire covered the following topics:<ul><li>attitudes to business and welfare</li><li>production and consumption</li><li>economic evaluations and aspirations</li><li>attitudes to government</li><li>collective identities</li><li>social characteristics</li></ul>