Slovenian Public Opinion 1992

A larger independent survey on mass media monitoring in Slovenia expands the field of interest in media habits, which is a permanent topic of SJM research. The tradition of this research begins with ICC62, and more notably in MEDIA89. The survey starts with a detailed recording of the monitoring of television programmes and individual broadcasts in order to analyse the factors influencing the style of media consumption. This is followed by other aspects of the way of spending free time understood within the concept of lifestyle. The questions relate to the methods of information, the frequency and normal time of monitoring of radio ins television, the choice of individual stations and broadcasts. Respondents list the most popular shows and personalities, evaluate individual shows, answer questions about technological equipment (teletext, video, cable/satellite TV), tell or follow foreign stations, which sports they are most interested in, what attitude they have towards advertising, evaluate the political orientation of state television. The set of questions concerns the monitoring of newspapers and magazines and their evaluation. The questionnaire also includes questions about the lifestyle (reading habits, sports activity, listening to music), self-assessment of the material situation, the respondent's work and attitude towards it, measuring attitudes regarding the nation/nationalism, gender relations, narcomania, abortion and private property. The standard block of socio-demographic questions is preceded by a set of questions about politics, the assessment of the political situation, satisfaction with the functioning of power, electoral preferences and attitudes towards extreme positions on what is happening in the public sphere. For a week, part of the respondents accurately recorded the monitoring of broadcasts on TV and evaluated individual broadcasts on national television using a special form ("Television viewing barometer from 24. 30 June 1992).