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Which of the following activities you
do in the evenings? [LIST
FOLLOWS]
How often do you go out in the
evening?
With whom do you usually go out in
the evening?
How often do you invite friends /
relatives /colleagues / neighbours for
lunch/dinner at your place?
France 2008
During the last 12 months,
did you (or your
spouse/partner) participate
in any community activities,
meetings, or events?
USA 2008
Map 6a. Socializing activities / community events
how often the respondents see friends and relatives, when (e.g. during the weekend, during the
holidays, etc.) and where (at one's place, at the restaurant, etc.). Questions also concern what
the respondents do with their friends: activities listed include, among others, chatting, going to the
cinema, going to the theatre, doing sports, doing social engaged activities, doing theatre, playing
music or doing other artistic-cultural activities.
“social” activities:
talking on the phone - writing letters to relatives, friends or other people - playing own with
children -
talking with the neighbours - talking with acquaintances - playing with domestic animals
receiving friends - visiting friends - going to pubs, clubs, or other meeting places
Italy 2009
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Do you celebrate the following Chinese traditional
festivals or western festivals (for example: eat
traditional foods in a specific festival, etc.)? [LIST
FOLLOWS]
Most people often discuss important matters with
others. There “others” may include your spouse,
family members, relatives, colleagues, classmates,
neighbours, friends and other people. In the past
half year, with who did you discuss any matter
important to you? Please tell me all of those
people’s surnames or shortened names.
(Interviewer: Please specify five people who are
the most important to the respondent and record
them in turn in the first row of the followed table in
the order of their importance to the respondent,
also record the total number of people the
respondent named: ______. Note: if the
respondent name more than five names, record the
actual number)
What did you mainly discuss with him/her?
1) have specific matters to handle
2) Emotional problems or problems related to life,
work or other aspects of social life
3) Both
[for each person named the survey records:
His/her relationship to the respondent, gender,
age, educational level, occupation, work unit type,
possible managerial work, how frequently the
respondent chatted with him/her or entertain
together in the last year, how much acquaintance
the respondents has with him/her]
China 2003