2267|NOVEMBER 1997 BAROMETER

— Degree of interest in news related to Ibero-America. — Knowledge of the celebration of the VII Ibero-American Summit. — Opinion on the need to intensify or reduce cooperation with Ibero-America. — Evaluation of the degree of relationship between Spain and Ibero-America in different aspects. — Priorities that should be set by the Spanish Government in its relations with the Ibero-American countries. — Degree of influence of Spain’s membership of the EU on EU/Iberoamerica relations. — Comparison of the feeling of closeness towards Europe/Ibero-America. — Evaluation of the current political situation in Spain, retrospective and one-year expectations. — Possibility of suffering personally, throughout life, different emergency situations/natural disasters — Number of times in which it has been affected by disasters.Type of catastrophes it has suffered. — Degree of confidence in different institutions and people to get safe in the event of a disaster. — Degree of knowledge of the interviewee and the Spaniards in general about how to behave in an emergency situation. — Means by which you have acquired knowledge about emergency situations/catastrophes. — Means that it considers more appropriate to improve the training of citizens to deal with emergency situations. — Direct reception of information/advices to deal with emergency situations. Means by which he received such information. — Evaluation of the current economic situation in Spain, retrospective and one-year expectations. — Knowledge of the presentation of the 1988 budgets. Assessment of these Budgets. — Assessment of the Government’s intention to reduce public expenditure and the possibility that it will achieve this during 1988. — Opinion on the degree of economic sacrifice that must be accepted in order to achieve the incorporation of Spain into the Economic and Monetary Union. — Scale of ideology of the interviewee. — Vote recall in March 1996 general elections. — Fidelity and electoral volatility in general elections in March 1996. — Job expectations of employment and unemployment.