2273|CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND WORK OF SPANISH FARMERS AND RANCHERS

— Work carried out in addition to its own holding: type of work, employment situation, percentage of income it represents over the total. Professional self-perception — Days a year dedicated to its exploitation — Comparison of the current standard of living of farmers and ranchers in Spain with that they had ten years ago — Degree of satisfaction with your work in agriculture/livestock — Family members working on the farm: number, relationship with the interviewee and days held each year — Persons (non-family) working on the holding: number of permanent workers and working hours performed by non-fixed workers — Characterisation of the holding: tenure regimes, types of crops, livestock and greenhouse existence. Surfaces — Most important productions of your holding by volume of sales: percentages of total sales and main buyers — Annual gross income from its holding — Ownership and ownership of the holding: unique or shared. Family relationship with the other owners and owners — Evaluation of different forms of inheritance and transfer of agricultural holdings. Existence of successors on their holding. Reason for not having a successor — Opinion on whether it is better to leave a good exploitation or give studies for the future of sons and daughters — Opinion on whether it is necessary to have special training to be a farmer — Allocation of tasks on the farm — Changes or improvements you have made to the holding in the last ten years — Aid requested from the Administration — Expectations of price developments (agricultural products, land and means of production), agricultural aid and farmers’ incomes — Country problems in Spain that affect you the most personally — Administration (European, Spanish or regional) which should be given more decision-making capacity to be able to improve the future of agriculture — According to the opinion that there are still too many farmers in Spain — According to different phrases about who should be engaged in agriculture and who should access the purchase of agricultural land — Farmer concept — Purpose of an agricultural holding — Degree of confidence in the action of different agricultural institutions in the defense of their interests as a farmer — Affiliation to any association/union of farmers or ranchers. Name of the association — Institution (agricultural organisations, cooperatives, agricultural chambers or public administrations) which should be responsible for the provision of different services — Type of participation in the last elections to agricultural chambers held in their autonomous community. Voted organisation or union if you have only participated as an elector — Belonging to: cooperatives, SAT, APA, Irrigation Unions/association of irrigators and livestock groups — Membership and occupation of positions in various organisations — Holding positions of representation in cooperatives, agricultural chambers, agricultural professional organisations and municipalities — Degree of agreement with different phrases on the role of agriculture today — Influence of Spain’s accession to the European Community on: the Spanish society and economy, Spanish agriculture, agriculture in your area and about the interviewee — Positive and negative aspect that it considers most important in the evolution of agriculture since the accession of Spain to the EU — More important problems of Spanish agriculture compared to European agriculture — Degree of agreement with different phrases on the effects of measures introduced through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) — Farmers (small/large and more productive/with higher quality) most benefited by the current agricultural policy — Opinion on the regulation of the agricultural market — Opinion on whether the price scheme for agricultural products should be: fixed, guarantee or free — Interests that predominate in the current agricultural policy: farmers or consumers — Influence of the transfer of skills in agriculture to the Autonomous Communities on farmers — Evolution in recent years of: administration’s technical support to farmers, quality control of products, control of fraud and aid to agriculture — Completion of Vocational Training (VET) Agrarian studies — Number of training courses in agriculture, livestock or forestry which you have attended — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee — Vote recall in the general elections of March 1996 and in the municipal elections of May 1995 — Frequency of attendance at religious offices — Origin of family income and percentage that represents each item out of the total — Number of people who contribute income to the household