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Anuario 2013
ISBN
9788474766479
Editorial
Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas
Fecha de la edición
2014
Colección
Fuera de Colección
Dimensiones
21 cm x 30 cm
N° Pág
331
The main function of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) is studying the attitudes and behaviour of Spanish society and measuring its stability and changes over time. This yearbook is part of a series which began in 2012, and synthesises the results of monthly opinion polls carried out in the form of personal surveys in 2013. It includes questions of special relevance, some of which are repeated each month, while others reflect a single subject that is the focus of each survey. The yearbook is a visual and accessible presentation of the data this institution gathers each year.
This volume includes an initial section giving a detailed description of the methodology used throughout this document, ten themed chapters, and an appendix with the technical data from the studies used for this yearbook. The first two chapters are longitudinal, and show perceptions about the economic and political situation, and the evaluation of the government and the opposition. These are followed by eight monographical chapters, dealing with subjects such as how society sees teachers, journalism and the media, citizens' rights in relation to new technologies, social habits, road safety, social participation and associations, disabilities, and fiscal policy.
The tables presented show which type of interviewee is more likely to have each opinion gathered in the surveys, according to a selection of characteristics. These include sociodemographic features such as gender, age, level of education, employment, marital status and socioeconomic status, but also others such as the size of the town where they live, ideology, voting records and religious practice. In this way, as well as presenting the general opinion of interviewees, the yearbook offers the possibility of examining specific groups.
The databases used to create this yearbook and all the surveys, series and questions asked by the CIS since 1999, are available on its website (www.cis.es) where they can be consulted or downloaded free of charge.
The 2013 yearbook includes a selection of the most relevant CIS barometers over the year. The section on “Perceptions of the economic and political situation” presents the common questions of the different barometers on this subject, from both retrospective and prospective points of view. In the section on “Assessment of the government and the opposition”, the interviewee's assessments of the government, the opposition, the Ministers and main political leaders can be reviewed in the political barometers applied every three months. The other sections represent a selection of the questions of each monthly monographic study. For this, an equilibrium was sought between the relevance of each indicator and the number of questions chosen in that month. However, sometimes the selection of some sets of questions has required more space.
The presentation of the data referring to each question is intended to maintain a similar structure to that within each section. Therefore, the blocks devoted to “Perceptions of the economic and political situation”, and “Assessment of the government and the opposition”, incorporate the longitudinal annual evolution of these opinions with a graph representing the monthly or quarterly responses. Meanwhile, the monthly themed blocks show the marginal frequencies (or average frequencies, depending on the case) for each of the selected questions, also accompanied by a specific graph. In most cases, these graphs represent the percentage of each response option on a scale of 10 or out of 100%, depending on the case. However, for some specific questions, such as the average assessment of political leaders and Ministers, this representation is adjusted to fit closer upper and lower limit values for clarity, given the low variation in these values.
Representative names have been given to the content of the presented tables and to the month or themed block to which they belong, to make them easy to identify. In this way, for example, the first table referring to the block of “Perceptions of the economic and political situation” is called “Table SIT1”, the first table for the block “Assessment of the government and the opposition” is identified as “Table POL1”, the first table of the barometer for February is called “Table F1”, and the tables of the poll on public opinion and fiscal policy are identified as “Table FIS1”.
Next, cross-references are provided with the most commonly used socio-demographic and political indicators the CIS offers its users: gender, age, marital status, education, occupation, social class, ideology, voting history, religion and locality. Some of these variables have been recoded or transformed to make it easier to read and interpret the data which are generally calculated for each category of that variable (in percentage rows). In a few questions only, these percentages are calculated by columns, as indicated in the document.
The variables of age and social class maintain the same categories provided by the CIS for the different studies through its website. However, ideology, locality, voting history and education have been recoded differently to present a more synthesised table of results.
Age includes the following intervals: “Up to 24”, “Aged 25 to 34”, “Aged 35 to 44”, “Aged 45 to 54”, “Aged 55 to 64” and “65 and over”. In the ideology variable, the more extreme values are grouped, the left represented by the values “1-2”, “3-4”, and the right by the values “7-8” and “9-10”. The intermediate values “5” and “6” have been kept ungrouped. The categories of locality size have been identified as follows: municipalities of fewer than 10,000 inhabitants are classified as “Village or small town”, of 10,001 to 100,000 inhabitants as “Town”, of 100,001 to 1,000,000 inhabitants as “City”, and more than 1,000,000 inhabitants as “Metropolitan area”.
A combination of questions were used to create the variables of education, social class and religion. In the case of education, the question of whether they went to school is combined with the question measuring the highest level of education taken. This is used to create six categories: “Primary or less”, “Early Secondary”, “Mid-level VT”, “Later Secondary”, “Upper-level VT”, and “University”. The new variable of religion combines the definition of religion with the frequency of religious practice, creating three categories: “Practising believer”, “Non-practising believer”, and “Atheist, non-believer”. In voting history, the question of whether they voted in the last elections is combined with the question of which party they voted for. The following categories were created: “PP”, “PSOE”, “IU/ICV”, “UPyD”, “CiU”, “Other parties”, “Was not old enough”, “Blank vote”, “Did not vote”, “Does not remember”, and “N/A”. The category “Did not vote” includes all the options reflecting abstention in either of the two original questions, and invalid ballots.
Meanwhile, the social class variable was created based on the responses of interviewees to three questions: employment status, occupation and socio-economic status. The five categories in this variable are: “Upper/upper-middle class” (groups professionals, qualified technicians, senior and middle management), “New middle classes” (Non-manual salaried workers), “Old middle classes” (business owners, the self-employed and farmers), “Skilled workers” (skilled manual workers, supervisors and craftsmen/women), “Unskilled workers” (workers in industry and services, and agricultural labourers).
The answer categories “Don't know (D/K)” and “No answer (N/A)” of the cross-referenced explanatory variables are presented in the tables only in cases where the figure is significant and that option is representative. Thus D/K and N/A have been kept in the presentation of political ideology, voting history and religion, but not in the other cases. Meanwhile, if included in the design of the questionnaire, it is specified whether a response is a “Spontaneous Response” contributed by the interviewee when asked the question, and on other occasions, if the category was one that the interviewer was instructed not to offer as a pre-set response option, in which case “DO NOT READ” appears next to it.
The fact that some of the categories of the different indicators are not frequently found among the answers given by interviewees makes it necessary in this section to highlight the limitation of interpreting the percentages in these cases. For this reason, the number of people (n) that respond per category or as a whole to those questions is shown in brackets.
Sometimes partial information is provided about certain questions to make them less complicated to read. For example, in a set of questions with the following response options: a lot, some, not much or not at all, used to capture a frequency or a degree of agreement, the options "a lot + some" have been grouped for presentation in the table. There is a single exception linked to this type of questions, in data referring to the fiscal barometer, where the “not much” group has been selected, given the frequency of other categories. Meanwhile, in questions which include the possibility of mentioning more than one answer (for example, in first and second place), only the data referring to first place are represented for most of them. Moreover, in the case of questions with a scale of 0 to 10, when not in a set of questions, the categories are grouped to simplify reading: “0-2”, “3-4”, “5”, “6-7” and “8-10”.
Throughout the document there are questions labelled “Multi-response” which aggregate the possible responses from interviewees into a single list of options or values. These questions have the characteristic in which (n) represents the total answers, unlike in the other questions, rather than the total number of people responding.
- SCALE OF EVALUATION (0-100) OF PROFESSIONS
- Frequencies and graphical representation
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status and education
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status and education (cont.)
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status and education (cont.)
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status and education (cont.)
- Cross-references by employment status, social class and ideology
- Cross-references by employment status, social class and ideology (cont.)
- Cross-references by employment status, social class and ideology (cont.)
- Cross-references by employment status, social class and ideology (cont.)
- Cross-references by voting record, religion and locality
- Cross-references by voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- Cross-references by voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- Cross-references by voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- PROFESSIONS PEOPLE WOULD RECOMMEND TO THEIR CHILDREN OR FRIENDS (2)
- RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF THE IMAGE OF TEACHERS (10 YEARS)
- DEGREE OF MOTIVATION OF TEACHERS
- REASONS FOR TEACHERS' MOTIVATION BEING LOW OR NIL
- AGREEMENT WITH VARIOUS STATEMENTS ABOUT EDUCATION AND TEACHERS
- Frequencies and graphical representation
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting record, religion and locality
- Cross-references by ideology, voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- HOW OFTEN PEOPLE WATCH THE NEWS ON TELEVISION
- HOW OFTEN PEOPLE FOLLOW THE NEWS ON THE RADIO
- HOW OFTEN PEOPLE FOLLOW THE NEWS IN NEWSPAPERS (NOT SPORTS PAPERS)
- HOW OFTEN PEOPLE FOLLOW THE NEWS IN SPORTS PAPERS
- PREFERRED SOURCE OF NEWS INFORMATION
- DEGREE OF INFLUENCE ON OPINION-FORMING OF THE DIFFERENT NEWS MEDIA
- DEGREE OF INTEREST IN INFORMATION ABOUT DIFFERENT SPHERES
- SCALE OF TRUST (0-10) IN DIFFERENT SPHERES OF INFORMATION TRANSMITTED BY THE MEDIA
- SCALE OF TRUST (0-10) IN DIFFERENT SOURCES OF INFORMATION
- SCALE OF SATISFACTION (0-10) IN DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE INFORMATION TRANSMITTED BY THE MEDIA
- Frequencies and graphical representation
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting history, religion and locality
- Cross-references by ideology, voting history, religion and locality (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting history, religion and locality (cont.)
- DEGREE OF CONCERN REGARDING VARIOUS SUBJECTS
- SCALE OF ACCESS TO/SECURITY OF INFORMATION (0-10)
- FREQUENCY OF GIVING CONSENT TO USE PERSONAL DATA IN FORMS
- REQUEST TO CANCEL PERSONAL DATA IN A REGISTRY
- DEGREE OF RESTRICTION WHICH SHOULD EXIST IN INTERNET ACCESS FOR MINORS
- MOST FREQUENT RISKS TO WHICH MINORS ARE EXPOSED ON THE INTERNET
- USE OF INTERNET IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS
- Frequency of access to the internet (last 12 months)
- POSITION REGARDING THE USE OF INFORMATION ABOUT PERSONAL INTERNET BROWSING HABITS IN ORDER TO PERSONALISE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
- Scale of selfishness (0-10) of members of the public
- Tolerance of various types of socially unacceptable behaviour
- Frequencies and graphical representation
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status, social class
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status, social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status, social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status, social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status, social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting record, religion and locality
- Cross-references by ideology, voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- Scale of importance (0-10) of a series of factors for being happy
- Frequencies and graphical representation
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status and education
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status and education (cont.)
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status and education (cont.)
- Cross-references by employment status, social class and ideology
- Cross-references by employment status, social class and ideology (cont.)
- Cross-references by employment status, social class and ideology (cont.)
- Cross-references by voting record, religion and locality
- Cross-references by voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- Cross-references by voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- Scale of personal happiness (0-10)
- Scale of satisfaction (0-10) with personal life
- Scale of satisfaction (0-10) with different aspects of personal life
- Frequencies and graphical representation
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status and education
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status and education (cont.)
- Cross-references by employment status, social class and ideology
- Cross-references by employment status, social class and ideology (cont.)
- Cross-references by voting record, religion and locality
- Cross-references by voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- Responsibility for traffic accidents
- Degree of agreement with the goals achieved since the introduction of the points system for driving licences
- Degree of dangerousness of different types of driving behaviour (1-10)
- Frequencies and graphical representation
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status (cont.)
- Cross-references by education, employment status, social class
- Cross-references by education, employment status, social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by voting record, religion and locality
- Cross-references by voting record, religion and locality (cont.)
- Effective measures for avoiding accidents
- Degree of effectiveness of the campaigns of the Directorate General of Traffic
- Degree of trust in people
- Participation in associations and groups
- Frequencies and graphical representation
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting history, religion and locality
- Cross-references by ideology, voting history, religion and locality (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting history, religion and locality (cont.)
- Reasons why people do not belong to any associations
- Participation in political and social actions
- Financial contribution to non-governmental organisations in the last year
- How uncomfortable people feel in the presence of someone with a disability
- Opinion on how people in general feel in the presence of people with a disability
- Evaluation of accessibility for people with disabilities in different locations
- Agreement with statements about the integration of people with disabilities
- Institution that should be responsible for people with disabilities
- Institution that should be responsible for people with chronic illnesses
- Evaluation of the sufficiency of healthcare and social services, and of benefits and tax breaks for people with disabilities
- Degree of satisfaction with the functioning of different public services
- Frequencies and graphical representation
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting history, religion and locality
- Cross-references by ideology, voting history, religion and locality (cont.)
- Functionality of taxes
- Benefits to society of paying taxes and contributions to the State
- Evaluation of the benefits they and their family receive in return for paying tax and social security contributions to the State
- Assessment of State spending on different public services
- Frequencies and graphical representation
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by gender, age, marital status, education, employment status and social class (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting history, religion and locality
- Cross-references by ideology, voting history, religion and locality (cont.)
- Cross-references by ideology, voting history, religion and locality (cont.)
- Assessment scale (0-10) of how taxes have increased to have better public services and social benefits
- The tax burden on taxpayers in Spain
- Comparison of the tax burden in Spain with Europe
- Fairness of tax collection
