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The survey charted Finnish opinions on and knowledge of the country's development cooperation, its importance, content, objectives, and allocation. Some questions focused on the UN Millennium Development Goals. The respondents were asked whether they considered development cooperation important, and why. Views on the effectiveness of development cooperation were charted as well as its greatest challenges. Familiarity with the UN Millennium Development Goals and views on the most important goals were surveyed. Opinions on the most important goals, activities (e.g. education, health care, industry), and key geographical areas for Finnish development cooperation were charted. The respondents were asked about the areas/activities in which Finland has something to offer to developing countries. Factual knowledge was charted by asking how much the respondents thought Finland was going to spend on development cooperation in 2012 (as percentage of the GNI and in euros). Opinions were probed on how much Finland should spend on development cooperation in 2015 (as percentage of the GNI). The respondents were also asked whether Finland should increase the amount of funding allocated to development cooperation in the light of the current financial situation. Those who thought funding should be increased were asked how the increase should be financed (e.g. by cutting other state expenditure or by increasing tax revenue). Some questions pertained to whether there was enough information available on development cooperation, development policy and developing countries, from which information sources the respondents had received information on these topics and from which of them they would like to receive more, whether more information should be available on some topics, and how reliable public authorities, voluntary/civic organisations and the media were as sources of such information. Views were surveyed on what the four most important forms of development cooperation are (e.g....