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Living Conditions Survey of the Baltic Region 1999

Latvia, 1999
Reference ID
LVA_1999_NORBALT_v01_M
Producer(s)
Center for International Studies, Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia
Metadata
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    LVA_1999_NORBALT_v01_M
    Title

    Living Conditions Survey of the Baltic Region 1999
    Country
    Name Country code
    Latvia LVA
    Study type

    Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
    Series Information

    NORBALT Living Conditions Survey is a Fafo project funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Norwegian Research Council.

    The rapid economic and political changes during the last ten years have created a strong demand for information on living conditions in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Reliable data are required for the formulation of well-targeted social policies and will be used by local policy makers, private organisations and the international community. Through NORBALT I information on living-conditions was made available for all three Baltic countries in 1994. This was followed by NORBALT II, a follow up to this survey taking place in 1999.
    Abstract

    The Living Conditions Survey within the NORBALT II project has entirely concrete aims: to provide data users with comparable, current and all embracing information of high quality. The survey programme is extensive. It includes the conditions of housing and of the place of residence, the composition of a household, the employment of its members, information about economical resources of a household and seld assessments of them, working conditions of the employed, the state of health of respondents, their attitude to crime and safety of a person in the society, about migration, attitudes, values and political views, and about social contacts among the members of the society. All this range of question is characteristic of the living conditions in the Scandinavian countries, and the obtained data are comparable to that of analogous surveys conducted in these countries.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Three units of analysis are used in the survey.
    1.Households
    2.Individuals in the households
    3.Randomly selected individuals (18 years of age and older)
    The unit of analysis varies from one module to another and sometimes within a module.

    Scope

    Notes

    The NORBALT surveys give updated and policy relevant information on living conditions in the three countries, with special focus on

    • Poverty and economic resources
    • Housing and residential environment
    • Education
    • The labour market (unemployment, working conditions)
    • Social integration
    • Health (contact with health institutions, coverage of medical insurance, private caretakers etc.)
    • Crime and security
    • Migration
    • Values and political views
    • Social contacts among members of the society

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Center for International Studies FAFO Institute
    Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Funding
    Nordic Council of Ministers Funding
    Norwegian Research Council and Council of Universities Funding
    Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia Funding

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    An English questionnaire is available under external resources. The questionnaire administered in NORBALT II includes the following sections
    A: Region, PSU and Household Number
    B: Housing Conditions/Residential Environment
    C: Household Roster & Labour Force (CL)
    D: D: Economic Self-Assessment
    E: Income
    F: Working Conditions
    G: Health Condition
    H: Crime, Security and Violence
    I: Migration
    K: Attitutes, Values and Political Views
    L: Social Contacts

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start
    1999-10
    Data Collection Notes

    Within the NORBALT II project, the Living Conditions Survey was simultaneously conducted in all three Baltic Countries in October 1999. In Latvia, 3081 households were surveyed.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    Center for International Studies FAFO Institute http://www.fafo.no/norbalt/ fafo@fafo.no
    Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia http://www.csb.gov.lv/en info@csb.gov.lv
    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigator
    • the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia info@csb.gov.lv http://www.csb.gov.lv
    Center for International Studies FAFO Institute fafo@fafo.no http://www.fafo.no/norbalt/
    Microdata Library microdatalib@worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_LVA_1999_NORBALT_v01_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Economics Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
    Date of Metadata Production

    2013-10-01

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (October 2013)
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