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The aim of this project is to study attitudes towards alternative partnership arrangements to better understand how Dutch people think about the family and to assess how this might be changing in the face of transformations in family formation in the Netherlands in recent decades.

Two wave survey on voters' opinions: before and after the Dutch parliamentary elections of 2006. political interest and communication/ most important national problem/ resignation Balkenende II/ party adherence and membership/ government policy/ vote intention second chamber 2006/ perception of poll results/ future vote intentions/ political issues: euthanasia/ political issues: income differences/ political issues: asylum seekers/ political issues: crime/ political issues: nuclear plants/ political issues: foreigners/ political issues: european unification/ social issues: opinion respondent/ previous voting behaviour/ political knowledge/ government coalition preferences/ coalition desirability ad coalition probability/ sympathy scores political parties/ emotions political parties/ respondents opinion on crime/ social protest and government response/ background characteristics of respondent/ party preference father/ party preference mother/ background characteristics/ interest political campaign/ voting bahaviour parliamentary elections 2006/ previous votingbehaviour/ trust in voting instruments/ perception of poll results/ vote matchers/ most important topic during elections for respondent/ party able to solve national problem/ opinion representation/ sympathy score political party/ sympathy score party leaders/ left-right rating political party/ satisfaction with democracy/ faith in politician as prime minister/ character traits politicians/ emotions politicians/ external political efficacy/ membership/ civic political participation/ confessional attitude/ EU membership/ democratic reform/ self-completed questionnaireSeveral variables have been excluded from the public data file in order
to protect the privacy of individual respondents. Examples are
municipality, zip code and the regional newspaper a person is reading.
These variables are available for scientific purposes only at Statistics
Netherlands. For more information, contact the Centre for Policy
Related Statistics at Statistics Netherlands via cvb@cbs.nl.

Two wave survey on voters' opinions: before and after the Dutch parliamentary elections of May 3, 1994. Pre-election wave: reading of newspapers, tv-newscast exposure / most important national problems / party identification and membership / evaluation of government policy on economy, employment and respondents personal finances / perception of main parties' standpoints on various political issues: euthanasia, crime, income differences, nuclear plants, ethnic minorities, R's own viewpoints regarding these matters / voting at last municipal elections /feasibility of multi-party system / sympathy rating of parties and leading politicians / coalition preference / party identification of parents / most essential goals in life / the inflow of asylum-seekers / the meaning of life / the life of Brian / Post-election wave: exposure to election campaigns, participation in it / voting behaviour, time of vote decision, voting stability / image of political parties regarding their ability to solve specific problems: crime, employment, pollution, welfare-fraud, financing deficit, pensioners' incomes / importance ranking of these problems / voting for European parliament / perception of main parties' standpoints on the unification of Europe, R's own standpoints in this matter / who will be the best prime minister / familiarity with politicians / best &amp, worst qualities of leading politicians / left-right rating of political parties / meaning of the concepts of left and right / sense of political efficacy / image of politicians and the political system / civic competence / relation between citizens and politicians / importance of the city council ( gemeenteraad ), provincial states ( provinciale staten ), national and European parliament to R's personal life / importance ranking of various political and personal issues / political participation / who are most entitled to a job / attitude to foreigners / racism / positive discrimination / chance that R will ever vote for other political parties / role of religion in public life, pillarization. Background variables: basic characteristics/ residence/ household characteristics/ occupation/employment/ income/capital assets/ education/ social class/ politics/ religion/ readership, mass media, and 'cultural' exposure/ organizational membership.