Choice ´95 Parliamentary Election in Latvia 1995

Moral orientations, questions on the political system and
behavior at the polls.
Topics: Importance of selected areas of life such as friends, family,
work, leisure time, politics and faith; frequency of political
discussions with friends; general trust in other people; earlier and
current membership in organizations; agreement of the activities of
political parties with personal views; stand on the party system;
preference for individual interests or for the development of
society, the nation as well as of collectives; preference for
development of society or for development of the nation; agreement of
one´s own views with those of contemporaries, friends, family,
colleagues, society; preference for freedom or equality;
self-classification on a left-right continuum; geographic identity of
respondent; judgement on financial situation in comparison to
neighbors; belonging to religious communities; ethnic affiliation;
dialect at home, at work as well as in public life; foreign language
abilities; language knowledge regarding the minority or majority of
the country; interest in politics; participation in social life;
reading newspapers and interest in political articles; frequency of
watching news broadcasts; trust in selected political and social
institutions; government as representation of interests of the
people; trust in the government, the constitution; postmaterialism;
assumed trust of the population in a better future; preferred
business leadership; satisfaction with opposition and government;
judgement on the speed of changes in the country; satisfaction with
democracy; clarity of political events; intents to emigrate;
preferred emigration country; election participation 1990; possession
and efforts to obtain Latvian citizenship; election participation
1993; discussion about possible result of parliament elections 1993
with friends and relatives; reasons for voting decision; election
memory 1993; agreement of personal choice and election winner;
fulfillment of the expectations of the elected party; election memory
regarding the presidential election; organization of the presidential
election; issue ability of the parties and election organizations;
readiness of respondent to give information about his behavior at the
polls; participation in future elections; extent to which informed
about election system and election candidates; ability to explain the
election system; most important sources of information on the
election system and election candidates; classification of
trustworthiness of selected sources of information about election
candidates; party preference; election precinct of respondent;
influence in future voting decisions; most important reasons for
voting decision; extent of discussion about voting decision with
family members, friends, colleagues and club members; certainty of
one´s voting decision; personal participation in the election
campaign; classification of the election as democratic.
Also encoded was: language in which the questionnaire was printed.