2307|OCTOBER 1998 BAROMETER

— Degree to which the Spanish economy depends on the policies and decisions of the Government and the European Union — Opinion on the extent to which your economic situation depends on your own activity or external factors — Evaluation of your current, retrospective and prospective one-year economic situation — Opinion on whether the current economic situation is favorable to make small family expenses and other expenses (purchase car, house, etc.) — Comparison of family spending this year with last year’s — Comparison of 1998 prices with 1997 prices. Expectations of evolution for the next year — Difference between household income growth and prices. Expectations of evolution in the next year — Monthly savings capacity in the interviewee’s household. Reason not to save — Evaluation of the current, retrospective and forward-looking Spanish economic situation to one year — Opinion on the influence of the current international financial crisis on the progress of the economy in our country — Agreement with the measure taken by the Spanish Government to make available to the International Monetary Fund resources to help Latin America to emerge from the crisis — Knowledge of the presentation of the draft 1999 Budgets — Opinion on the adequacy of the 1999 Budgets to the current needs of the Spanish economy — Influence that budgets will have on: improving the economic situation, reducing the public deficit and creating jobs — Assessment of the purpose of reducing public expenditure during 1999. Possibility to achieve it — Evaluation of the current, retrospective and forward-looking Spanish political situation to one year — Knowledge and scale of assessment of political leaders — Evaluation of the management of the PP Government — Evaluation of the political performance of the PSOE since it has been in the opposition — Knowledge and scale of assessment of the ministers who form the Government — Confidence in the President of the Government, José Mª Aznar, in the secretary general of the PSOE, Joaquín Almunia and in Josep Borrell — Intention to vote in general elections — Affinity with political parties — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee — Vote recall in 1996 general elections — Vote fidelity in March 1996 general elections — Electoral volatility in general elections in March 1996 — Knowledge of the holding of regional elections in the Basque Country on 25 October — Degree of interest with which he followed the elections to the Basque Parliament. Knowledge of the party/coalition that won the highest number of seats — Employment and unemployment expectations