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This survey forms part of the report on power ´Maktutredningen´, and deals with the citizen´s possibilities to influence. To study the citizen´s possibilities to affect hers/his own situation six different areas of life were chosen. Questions concerning the citizen´s role as a resident dealt with type of housing, participation in meetings or other activities arranged by tenants´ association or similar, activities together with neighbours, possibilities to affect housing conditions, reason for discontent in regard to housing during the last year, activities to accomplish improvements/counteract impairment, and if the demands were met. The role as a consumer were illustrated by questions concerning purchases of capital goods during the last year, possibilities to estimate the quality, choose between different manufactures, and to determine whether the purchase was the best value for money, discontent in regard to purchases during the last year, attempt to get adjustments, and if the demands were met. Questions about health and medical care dealt with own experience of medical care, concerning light illness, serious illness, hospital treatment, and the need for treatment of close relative, possibilities to affect the treatment, to get enough treatment, to choose doctor or change to another surgery or clinic, reason for discontent concerning medical treatment, activities to accomplish improvements/counteract impairment, and if the demands were met. Another area concerned family, with questions dealing with marital status, number of children and their age, household composition. Respondents married or cohabiting had to answer questions concerning their own possibility to affect major purchases for the family or the house, distribution of the housework, time spent together with family, how to raise the children, and how often she/he and the partner are of different opinion. Respondents with children aged 0-6 years were asked about child daycare, kind of child daycare...