DOI: 10.5279/dk-sa-dda-2478
title: Solidarity in the Welfare State, 1997
title: Solidarity in the Welfare State, 1997

description: The purpose of this survey is to obtain information for statistical and scientific assessment of the solidarity and responsibility of people towards their family, friends, work and other people. # The data material is obtained by means of interviews with selected persons in 1997. # #The following information is included from the interviews: #- Degree of urbanization. #- Sex. #- Age. #- School education. #- Vocational education. #- Main occupation. #- Public/private employment. #- Number of working hours per week. #- Previous employment of unemployed people. #- Period since last employment. #- Single or cohabiting. #- Occupation of spouse/cohabitant. #- Public/private employment of spouse/cohabitant. #- Gross family income. #- Friendships with colleagues. #- Who these friends are. #- Attitude to mixing private life and working life. #- Knowledge of colleagues with personal problems. #- Attitude to colleagues with personal problems. #- Behaviour towards new colleagues. #- Attitude to social life at the place of work. #- Attitude to economic rewards. #- Attitude to rewards in the form of influence and prestige. #- Willingness to work shorter time with wage reduction out of # consideration for the unemployed. #- Attitude to easy jobs. #- Willingness to work with long-term unemployed or people in easy # jobs. #- Attitude to positive special treatment. #- Membership of trade organizations. #- Reasons for membership. #- Number of children living at home. #- Minding of the children. #- Time consumption on various activities. #- Number of hours awake together with the children. #- Activities together with the children. #- How the respondent would prioritize 10 extra free hours a week # on selected activities. #- Whether and why parents should influence children's circle of # friends. #- Which qualities it is important to encourage children to learn. #- Demands on spouse/cohabitant. #- Whether the respondent has been through a divorce. #- Causes of this divorce. #- Contact with children of whom the respondent does not have # custody. #- Responsibility towards these children. #- Assessment of the relation to these children. #- Time of transport to adult children of a former marriage. #- Frequency of contact with adult children of a former marriage. #- Assessment of the relation to these children. #- Time of transport to parents/parents-in-law. #- Frequency of contact with parents/parents-in-law. #- Assessment of how parents/parents-in-law are doing. #- Willingness to let resource weak parents/parents-in-law move in # permanently. #- Hesitations about this. #- Assessment of the relation to parents/parents-in-law. #- Contact to grandchildren. #- Contact to other relatives. #- Assessment of the relation to grandchildren. #- Assessment of the relation to other relatives. #- How long the respondent has had his/her friends. #- Where the respondent knows the friends from. #- How often the respondent sees his/her friends. #- Time of transport to best friends. #- Assessment of the friends compared with the respondent # himself/herself. #- How formal/relaxed is the relation to the friends. #- Willingness to invite friends on Christmas Eve if they are # alone. #- How close is the contact with the friends. #- How binding are friendships. #- Whether the respondent only sees the friends because of common # interests/wish. #- How well the respondent knows his/her neighbours. #- How relaxed/formal is the relation to the neighbours. #- Willingness to invite neighbours on Christmas Eve. #- Degree of interest in the neighbours. #- Degree of commitment towards the neighbours. #- People the respondent does not want as neighbours. #- How much the respondent helps other people with practical # matters. #- With child-minding. #- By lending things. #- By giving emotional support/listening to problems. #- How much the respondent helps other people financially. #- Willingness to do this. #- Reasons for not helping others financially. #- Whether the respondent takes time off from work to help # others. #- Willingness to do this. #- Reasons for not doing this. #- To which a degree the respondent helps people undergoing a # crisis by letting them move in. #- Willingness to do this. #- Reasons for not doing this. #- Whom in the family/circle of friends the respondent sees # at Christmas. #- Whom the respondent goes on holiday or weekends with. #- Whom the respondent participates in activities with. #- Whether the respondent supports voluntary relief organizations. #- Which weak groups the respondent thinks need more help. #- Which groups get too much help. #- Interest in making a personal effort to help the weak groups. #- Reasons for not being interested. #- Which demands should be put on people who receive help. #- Attitude to relief work towards people in Third World countries. #- Knowledge of immigrants/refugees from Third World countries. #- Attitude to immigrants and refugees. #- Whether the respondent personally takes contact to # immigrants/refugees to help them. #- Reasons for not doing this. #- Participation in voluntary social work. #- Reasons for participating. #- Attitudes to environmental questions and ecology. #- Whether the respondent buys ecological products. #- Whether the respondent in other ways considers the environment. #- Attitude to moonlighting. #- Whether the respondent moonlights. #- Whether the respondent has ever had work done by moonlighters. #- Attitude to the EU and sense of responsibility towards citizens # in other EU-countries. #- Attitude to the right 'balance' between rights for the # individual and responsibility towards society. #- Attitude to an extension of the support responsibility of the # families. #- Attitude to the size of various transfer payments. #- Which transfer payments the respondent or close relatives # receive. #- Attitude to primary school. #- Attitude to public day-care. #- Attitude to public health services. #- Attitude to public elder care. #- Attitude to the basic fields of responsibility of the welfare # state. #- Attitude to user payment. #- Attitude to the relation between equality and the welfare state. #- Attitude to public retrenchments. #- What is reasonable or not reasonable to pay tax to. #- Attitudes to basic values: equality, liberty, respect for # authorities. #- Assessment of whether, all things considered, we live in a # fairly solidary society
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