The project aims to study long-term changes in social attitudes, opinions and values, to chart and explain changes in national social, political and moral climate.

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Core questions included in each wave

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Life values: Schwartz Value scale which includes 10 value dimensions.

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Cultural and ethnic identity: ethnic, civic and religious identities, the level of religiosity and belonging to religious denomination, native language, country of origins, citizenship, country of parent’s origins and ethnic identification, emotional attachment to the country (since Round 8).

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Social structure and human capital: the achieved level of general and professional education and number of years spent in the education, the position in the labor relations, profession, size and type of employer, industry, level of autonomy and managerial functions, profession and employment position of the partner of respondent, social origin of respondent – profession and education of parents in time of respondent socialization, interpersonal trust and frequency of social contacts.

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Family and marriage: social-demographic characteristics of all household members, marriage status, official and non-officially registered relations, the results of former relations (divorces, separations, widow).

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The basic part of the questionnaire contains the questions about

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Political attitudes and behavior: interest in politics, the subjective political efficacy and competence, the attachment to political ideology (left-right scale), party preferences and party attachment, the participation in different forms of political actions – electoral as well as non-electoral, the satisfaction with the state of economy, health services and state of education, evaluation of the performance of the government, functioning of democracy in general, the confidence in political, state, civic and international institutions.

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Social attitudes: attitudes toward different groups – homosexuals, migrants and migrations, opinions about the policy to reduce economic inequality, the attitudes toward climate change (since Round 8)

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Subjective wellbeing: the satisfaction with life as a whole and level of happiness.

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Social insecurity and exclusion: the experience of unemployment, the type of labor contract, material provision, state of health, social ties and physical safety, discrimination experience and the reasons of discrimination.

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Sources of information: the usages of traditional media (television, radio, newspapers) and new media (Internet).