GENERAL PERSPECTIVES, FUTURE

Jul 7, 2017

IN MOST EUROPEAN MEMBER STATES, A LARGE PROPORTION OF THE POPULATION FEELS THAT THINGS IN THEIR COUNTRY ARE HEADING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. THE GREEK SOCIETY IS BY FAR THE MOST PESSIMISTIC, 61 PERCENT OF THE GREEK POPULATION FEELS THAT THINGS ARE HEADING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. EVERY OTHER EUROPEAN THINKS THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL HAVE LOWER STANDARDS OF LIVING THAN THEY HAVE TODAY. THE MOST DEVELOPED NATIONS ARE ALSO THE MOST PESSIMISTIC (BELGIUM, AUSTRIA, FRANCE AND GERMANY) REGARDING THE FUTURE. PARTICIPANTS IN THE RESEARCH FROM EVERY COUNTRY CONSIDER INCOME INEQUALITY TO BE A MAJOR PROBLEM.

NUMBERS OF THE QUESTIONS ARE THE SAME AS IN THE QUESTIONNAIRE.

Q1. GENERALLY SPEAKING, IN WHAT DIRECTION DO YOU THINK THAT THINGS ARE GOING IN YOUR COUNTRY?

Answer	Percentil
Right direction strongly	0.06
Right direction somewhat	0.25
Wrong direction somewhat	0.31
Wrong direction strongly	0.29
Neither/both	0.07
Don't know/Refused	0.02

Country	Right direction strongly	Right direction somewhat	Wrong direction somewhat	Wrong direction strongly	Neither/both	Don't know/Refused
EU	0.06	0.25	0.31	0.29	0.07	0.02
Luxembourg	0.14	0.53	0.21	0.06	0.04	0.02
Malta	0.24	0.39	0.15	0.11	0.1	0.01
Portugal	0.1	0.46	0.27	0.1	0.04	0.03
Estonia	0.03	0.48	0.28	0.09	0.09	0.03
United Kingdom	0.11	0.35	0.24	0.19	0.08	0.03
Ireland	0.05	0.37	0.29	0.18	0.1	0.01
Netherlands	0.04	0.36	0.28	0.18	0.08	0.06
Hungary	0.09	0.27	0.24	0.22	0.17	0.01
Latvia	0.01	0.31	0.32	0.18	0.15	0.03
Lithuania	0.03	0.3	0.33	0.2	0.1	0.04
Romania	0.04	0.34	0.25	0.33	0.03	0.01
Czech Republic	0.01	0.34	0.44	0.14	0.05	0.02
Finland	0.04	0.26	0.31	0.24	0.1	0.05
Bulgaria	0.05	0.28	0.33	0.26	0.06	0.02
Cyprus	0.08	0.26	0.32	0.3	0.03	0.01
Denmark	0.04	0.27	0.35	0.24	0.08	0.02
Sweden	0.05	0.26	0.32	0.28	0.07	0.02
Poland	0.09	0.2	0.27	0.35	0.08	0.01
Belgium	0.03	0.22	0.33	0.25	0.12	0.05
Spain	0.07	0.23	0.25	0.41	0.02	0.02
France	0.04	0.2	0.38	0.23	0.12	0.03
Germany	0.05	0.22	0.39	0.27	0.05	0.02
Slovenia	0.06	0.12	0.29	0.3	0.14	0.09
Italy	0.03	0.22	0.29	0.39	0.05	0.02
Croatia	0.02	0.21	0.3	0.43	0.03	0.01
Slovakia	0.02	0.18	0.41	0.3	0.07	0.02
Austria	0.02	0.18	0.41	0.31	0.06	0.02
Greece	0.01	0.08	0.25	0.61	0.04	0.01

Q23. DO YOU THINK YOUR CHILDREN OR THE NEXT GENERATIONS WILL LIVE…?

Answer	Percentil
Better	0.15
Same	0.26
Worse	0.51
Don't know/Refused	0.08

Country	Better	Same	Worse	Don't know/Refused
EU	0.15	0.26	0.51	0.08
Latvia	0.51	0.2	0.19	0.1
Lithuania	0.49	0.19	0.19	0.13
Estonia	0.4	0.27	0.18	0.15
Malta	0.44	0.27	0.24	0.05
Romania	0.41	0.21	0.28	0.1
Hungary	0.35	0.3	0.27	0.08
Poland	0.37	0.21	0.31	0.11
Bulgaria	0.32	0.16	0.4	0.12
Ireland	0.23	0.34	0.38	0.05
Denmark	0.2	0.34	0.36	0.1
Sweden	0.19	0.3	0.41	0.1
Portugal	0.22	0.23	0.46	0.09
Croatia	0.22	0.18	0.49	0.11
Finland	0.15	0.31	0.43	0.11
Cyprus	0.26	0.15	0.58	0.01
United Kingdom	0.12	0.34	0.45	0.09
Spain	0.17	0.26	0.51	0.06
Slovakia	0.19	0.18	0.53	0.1
Czech Republic	0.15	0.26	0.51	0.08
Netherlands	0.08	0.35	0.45	0.12
Luxembourg	0.13	0.33	0.52	0.02
Slovenia	0.13	0.19	0.58	0.1
Greece	0.16	0.15	0.62	0.07
Germany	0.08	0.3	0.55	0.07
Italy	0.08	0.23	0.62	0.07
France	0.07	0.2	0.65	0.08
Austria	0.06	0.23	0.66	0.05
Belgium	0.05	0.21	0.66	0.08

Q15. HOW SERIOUS A PROBLEM DO YOU BELIEVE IS INCOME INEQUALITY IN YOUR COUNTRY?

Answer	Percentil
Very serious	0.56
Only somewhat serious	0.30
Not very serious	0.10
No problem at all	0.02
Don't know/Refused	0.02

Country	Very serious	Only somewhat serious	Not very serious	No problem at all	Don't know/Refused
EU	0.56	0.3	0.1	0.02	0.02
Bulgaria	0.92	0.05	0.01	0.01	0.01
Greece	0.81	0.16	0.02	0	0.01
Portugal	0.84	0.12	0.02	0.01	0.01
Croatia	0.77	0.18	0.03	0.01	0.01
Latvia	0.76	0.18	0.03	0.01	0.02
Lithuania	0.69	0.25	0.03	0.01	0.02
Romania	0.85	0.09	0.03	0.01	0.02
Slovakia	0.65	0.28	0.05	0.02	0
Cyprus	0.63	0.28	0.06	0.02	0.01
Slovenia	0.79	0.13	0.06	0.01	0.01
Spain	0.68	0.24	0.06	0.01	0.01
Hungary	0.67	0.23	0.07	0.02	0.01
Italy	0.58	0.33	0.07	0.01	0.01
France	0.64	0.25	0.07	0.01	0.03
Finland	0.59	0.28	0.09	0.02	0.02
Belgium	0.61	0.25	0.09	0.02	0.03
Germany	0.52	0.35	0.1	0.02	0.01
Ireland	0.52	0.36	0.1	0.01	0.01
Poland	0.44	0.43	0.1	0.02	0.01
Czech Republic	0.47	0.38	0.11	0.02	0.02
Austria	0.45	0.4	0.12	0.02	0.01
Estonia	0.44	0.38	0.12	0.03	0.03
Netherlands	0.35	0.41	0.17	0.04	0.03
United Kingdom	0.41	0.35	0.19	0.02	0.03
Luxembourg	0.29	0.46	0.21	0.03	0.01
Sweden	0.27	0.42	0.24	0.03	0.04
Denmark	0.3	0.35	0.24	0.07	0.04
Malta	0.2	0.43	0.26	0.08	0.03

GENERAL PERSPECTIVES, FUTURE

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