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The New Baltic Barometer (NBB) was launched in 1993 to reflect opinions in three multi-ethnic societies, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, incorporated into the Soviet Union as a consequence of the Second World War. There were six NBB surveys conducted from 1993 to 2004, with many questions repeated to show trends. From 2001, the NBB was merged with the New Democracies Barometer to form New Europe Barometer (available from the UK Data Archive under GN 33355). Therefore the last two NBB surveys are available under SN 5242 and SN 5243 which are part of the New Europe Barometer series.

Whereas political rhetoric often describes all people of a given nationality as thinking alike, election results show differences of opinion. The NBB documents differences within every nationality in the region along lines of age, education, economic circumstances and gender. Differences within each nationality may be paralleled by similarities between nationalities. Comparisons with the Russians in Russia can be made through the New Russia Barometer (available at the Archive under GN 33374) survey.

Further information about the NBB survey series is available on the Baltic Voices web site. Additional information about all the Barometer survey series managed by the CSPP can be found on the CSPP Barometer Surveys web site.

New Baltic Barometer III, 1996 is the third study in the series.

Main Topics:

The questionnaire covered the following topics:

• economic activities
• economic evaluation
• political attitudes
• trust
• rights and duties of citizenship
• political parties
• ethnic relations