Values and Elections in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia 1992-1993

Moral orientations and questions on the political system.
Topics: Belonging to an ethnic minority; importance of areas of life;
interest in politics; general trust in other people; earlier and
current memberships as well as paid or unpaid participation in
organizations; party preference; preference for individual interests
or for development of society, the nation as well as of collectives;
reference person or reference groups for personal conduct; preference
for freedom or equality; self-classification on a left-right
continuum; geographic identity of respondent; relations with
neighbors; judgement on financial situation in comparison to
neighbors; ethnic affiliation; dialect at home as well as at work;
knowledge of foreign languages; language knowledge relative to
minority or majority of the country; foreign languages currently
learned; participation in social life; reading newspapers and
interest in political articles; interest in TV news programs; trust
in selected political and social institutions; trust in the
government; government as representation of interests of the people;
postmaterialism; preference for economic growth or employment
guarantee; assumed trust of the population in a better future; forms
of political participation; attitude to selection of personnel by
company owner; judgement on the speed of political and social changes
in the country; satisfaction with democracy; personal impact of
illegal confiscation of property and real estate by the Soviet
government; restitution claims raised; motives for a trip abroad;
intent to emigrate; reasons and destination country of emigration;
participation in the last elections and reasons for voting for a
specific candidate; discussion of the voting decision in one's
family; name of candidate voted for; satisfaction with elected
candidate; classification of the election as democratic; most
important reference persons (social network); frequency of contact
and frequency of political discussions with these persons; assumed
behavior at the polls of reference persons in the impending
presidential election; opinion leadership or opinion allegiance in
political questions; political differences with social surroundings;
degree of relationship with persons named from the social network;
education and occupational position of these person; issue ability of
parties and election organizations; readiness of respondent to give
information about his behavior at the polls; participation in earlier
elections and intent to participate in future elections; reasons for
non-participation in the election; self-classification of extent to
which informed about the new election system and the voter lists;
most important source of information about the new election system;
classification of the trustworthiness of selected sources of
information about election candidates; party preference; election
precinct of respondent; preferred candidate for the constituency or
the presidential election; most important reasons for voting
decision; extent of discussions about voting decision with family
members, friends, colleagues and club members; agreement of one's own
voting decision with assumed voting decisions of spouse, parents as
well as children; certainty of one's voting decision and intent to
participate in the next election; personal participation in the
election campaign; date of birth; regional origins.
Also encoded was: language in which the questionnaire was written.