Participation in politics

Changed on: 03/02/2010 02:00

Participation in politics
Personal characteristics	Periods	Opinions on ethnic minorities Influx of asylum seekers No restrictions (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Influx of asylum seekers Must be restricted (%)	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 non-EU countries No restrictions (%)	Opinions on ethnic minorities Influx employees from non-EU countries Must be restricted (%)	Values Social security Extremely important (%)	Values Social security Very important (%)	Values Social security Important (%)	Values Social security Not sure (%)	Values Social security Unimportant (%)
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 of asylum seekers

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 asylum seekers.

No restrictions

Must be restricted

Influx employees from other EU countries

No restrictions

Must be restricted

Influx employees from non-EU countries

No restrictions

Must be restricted

Values

Four types of social values can be distinguished:
Priority to family values, i.e. being married, live for one's family, the
future of the children and a happy family life.
Priority to economic values: have a career, be prosperous, social security
Critical of society: Trying to reduce the current differences in income,
promoting social equality and a society in which everybody's vote counts.
Hedonism: priority: enjoy life and have fun.

Social security

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.

Extremely important

Very important

Important

Not sure

Unimportant