Participation in politics

Changed on: 03/02/2010 02:00

Participation in politics
Personal characteristics	Periods	Opinions on ethnic minorities Influx employees from other EU countries No restrictions (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Influx employees from other EU countries Must be restricted (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Influx employees from other EU countries Must be stopped altogether (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Influx employees from non-EU countries No restrictions (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Influx employees from non-EU countries Must be restricted (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Influx employees from non-EU countries Must be stopped altogether (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Positive discrimination of foreigners Agree completely (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Positive discrimination of foreigners Agree (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Positive discrimination of foreigners Do not agree, do not disagree (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Positive discrimination of foreigners Disagree (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Positive discrimination of foreigners Disagree completely (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities More money for education of foreigners Agree completely (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities More money for education of foreigners Agree (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities More money for education of foreigners Do not agree, do not disagree (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities More money for education of foreigners Disagree (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities More money for education of foreigners Disagree completely (%)	Which employee should be to dismissed? Foreigner or Dutchman A foreigner (%)	Which employee should be to dismissed? Foreigner or Dutchman A Dutchman (%)	Which employee should be to dismissed? Foreigner or Dutchman Should not make any difference (%)
Total personal characteristics	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Men	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Women	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
12-17 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18-24 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25-34 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
35-44 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
45-54 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
55-64 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
65-74 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
75 yrs and older	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
0-14 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
15-24 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25-44 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
45-64 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
65 yrs and older	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
0-14 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
15-19 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
20-24 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25-34 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
35-44 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
45-54 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
55-64 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
65-74 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
75-84 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
85 yrs and older	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Unknown	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Level of education: primary education	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Level of education: pre-vocational ed.	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Level of education: junior gen. sec. ed.	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Level of education: senior gen. sec. ed.	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Level of ed.: voc. colleges,universities	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Higher management	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other white-collar workers	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Self-employed	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Skilled manual labour	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Half-skilled and unskilled manual labour	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Unemployed labour force	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Attending school, training	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Disabled	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Early retirement, pension (58-64 yrs)	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Cares for household with minor(s)	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other socio-economic group	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
One-person household	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Member of a single-parent family	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Member of a couple without children	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Member of a couple with children	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Very high urbanisation rate	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
High urbanisation rate	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Moderately high urbanisation rate	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Low urbanisation rate	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Very low urbanisation rate	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Source: cbs.

Explanation of symbols

Table explanation

Participation; political favour and voting behaviour, political
interest and opinions by personal characteristics
1997 - 2003
Changed on February 03 2010.
Frequency: Discontinued.

Description topics

Opinions on ethnic minorities

Influx employees from other EU countries

The data refer to persons in the age category 18 years and older.
Source: Integrated System of Social Surveys (POLS): justice and
environment (REM).
This question refers to foreigners settling in the Netherlands.
Opinion on the influx of employees from other EU countries.

No restrictions

Must be restricted

Must be stopped altogether

Influx employees from non-EU countries

No restrictions

Must be restricted

Must be stopped altogether

Positive discrimination of foreigners

Agree completely

Agree

Do not agree, do not disagree

Disagree

Disagree completely

More money for education of foreigners

The data refer to persons in the age category 18 years and older.
Source: Integrated System of Social Surveys (POLS): justice and
environment (REM).
This question refers to foreigners settling in the Netherlands.
The data are available from 1999.
Opinion on the question: should the government make more money available
for the education of foreigners?

Agree completely

Agree

Do not agree, do not disagree

Disagree

Disagree completely

Which employee should be to dismissed?

Opinion on whom to dismiss if 2 employees differ in one respect.

Foreigner or Dutchman

Opinion on whom to dismiss if 2 employees differ in one respect.
The data refer to persons in the age category 18 years and older.
Source: Integrated System of Social Surveys (POLS): justice and
environment (REM).
The data are available from 1999.

A foreigner

A Dutchman

Should not make any difference