2225|BAROMETER OF OCTOBER 1996

— Assessment of the situation of teaching in Spain. — Degree of importance of various teaching problems: excessive number of students, lack of motivation of teachers, lack of adequate facilities, poor quality of programs, lack of discipline in schools, little concern of parents and how little teachers demand from students. — Assessment of the quality of teaching in colleges and institutes, and in the university. — Assessment of the current Government’s teaching policy. — Opinion on the amount of expenditure on education of the State. — Public service in which the government should invest more: education or health, education or public works, justice or education, pensions or education. — Advice you would give to a child: who worked in a public body as an official, in a private company, or had an independent job or profession. — Image of civil servants and public employees. Assessment of the extent to which: they are effective, they are authoritarian with the citizen, they are slow in their work, they are eager to serve citizens, they are responsible, they are good professionals, they are strict in complying with administrative rules, they are well prepared. — Comparison, with private sector workers, of the extent to which civil servants and public employees are: concerned with providing a quality service, motivated to do their job well, prepared, and satisfied with their work. — Opinion on the valuation given to work in the Administration compared to working in the private company. — Degree of agreement with the Government’s measure not to raise the salaries of civil servants and civil servants in 1997 in order to reduce public expenditure. — Evaluation of the current economic situation and one-year expectations. — Knowledge of the 1997 Budgets. Opinion on whether or not the budgets are realistic and appropriate to the current needs of the Spanish economy. The extent to which budgets will have an impact on: improving the economic situation, reducing the public deficit, job creation and Spain’s entry into the Economic and Monetary Union (single currency). — Assessment of the Government’s intention to reduce public expenditure during 1997. Opinion on whether the government will be able to reduce public spending. — Phrase with which you agree most: membership in the European Union in 1999 is a priority, even if it may involve significant economic sacrifices or, we must try, but as long as it does not require significant economic sacrifices. — Assessment of the current political situation in the country, retrospective and one-year expectations. — Knowledge and scale of assessment of political leaders: Julio Anguita, José Antonio Ardanza, Xavier Arzallus, José Mª Aznar, Josep A. Durán i Lleida, Felipe González and Jordi Pujol. — Assessment of the management of the current PP Government. — Assessment of the political performance of the PSOE since it has been in the opposition. — Knowledge and scale of assessment of the ministers forming the new government: Esperanza Aguirre, Francisco Álvarez Cascos, Javier Arenas, Rafael Arias Salgado, Margarita Mariscal, Abel Matutes, Jaime Mayor Oreja, Loyola de Palacio, Josep Piqué i Camps, Mariano Rajoy, Rodrigo Rato, José Manuel Romay, Eduardo Serra and Isabel Tocino. — Confidence inspired by the President of the Government, José Mª Aznar. — Confidence inspired by the general secretary of the PSOE, Felipe González. — Intention to vote in general elections (if held tomorrow). Affinity with political parties. — Scale of personal political ideology. — Vote recall in the general elections of March 1996 and June 1993. — Children studying in preschool, EGB, ESO, BUP or COU centres. Type of center: private, public or both. Kids in college. — Prospect of losing the job or finding a job, in the next twelve months, by those who are working and the unemployed, respectively.