2316|JANUARY 1999 BAROMETER

— Enjoy holiday in the Christmas season. Number of vacation days. — Travel for reasons other than work and for more than four or five consecutive days. Main reason for the trip. — Character of Christmas parties. — Forms of celebration of Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve dinner. — Maintenance of Christmas traditions (Belen, Christmas tree). — Realisation of extraordinary expenses on meals and gifts during the Christmas holidays. Time of purchase of food for the holidays and gifts for Christmas/Kings. — Day, Christmas or Kings, on which Christmas gifts are made in the interviewee’s home. — Frequently with which you play the lottery. — Purchase of lottery in the extraordinary draws of Christmas and Child. People with whom he shares the Christmas lottery. — Evaluation of the current economic situation in Spain, retrospective and one-year expectations. — Opinion on the benefit of the implementation of the euro for Spain. — Opinion on the extent to which the euro will favour a uniform economic growth of the countries that make up the European Union and, will protect the Spanish economy in international crises. — Degree of agreement with different phrases on the influence of the euro on various aspects of the Spanish economy. — Degree of concern of people about the replacement of the peseta with the euro. Degree of personal concern. — Current calculations in euros of the prices of products or services. — Evaluation of the current political situation in Spain, retrospective and one-year expectations. — Knowledge of the celebration of the thirteenth national congress of the People’s Party. Interest in follow-up. — Opinion on the influence of the decisions taken in this congress on possible changes in the People’s Party. — Opinion on whether congresses of political parties are of interest to all citizens or whether they only interest the members and sympathisers of each party. — Knowledge and scale of valuation of political leaders. — Assessment of the management being carried out by the 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 who form the Government. — Degree of confidence inspired by the President of the Government, José Mª Aznar, the general secretary of the PSOE, Joaquín Almunia and Josep Borrell. — Intention to vote in general elections. — Affinity with political parties. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Vote recall in March 1996 general elections. — Vote fidelity in general elections in March 1996. — Electoral volatility in general elections in March 1996 — Job expectations of employment and unemployment.