Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

SZALMA IVETT / SZEL BERNADETT
Table 8. Social services and benefits in the respondent’s county lead to a more equal society
Frequency
Valid Percent
Agree 16359 50.9
Neither agree nor
disagree
7711 24.0
Disagree 8087 25.1
Total 32157 100.0
Missing 1248
Total 33405
The relative majority of respondents - 39.6%
- believe that businesses are overburdened by
social measures. On the other hand, almost
one third disagrees with this statement, while
28.2% is undecided regarding the relation
between businesses and social welfare
expenditures (Table 9).
Table 9. Social services and benefits in the respondent’s county cost businesses
too much in taxes and charges
Frequency
Valid Percent
Agree 12014 39.6
Neither agree nor
disagree
8567 28.2
Disagree 9761 32.2
Total 30342 100.0
Missing 3063
Total 33405
According to the majority of respondents
(56.7%), social measures help to establish
work-life balance; only 16.8% believe that
social services and benefits do not have
such a positive effect in this sense.
Again, more than one quarter of the
respondents do not have an explicit
answer (Table 10).
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