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Preliminary results on solidarity issues in Catalonia, Galicia, and Castilla-La Mancha. Analysis of wealth distribution, regional identity, competences, economic perceptions, and migrant solidarity. Recommendations for economic balancing and financial aid distribution.
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The CANS Survey in Three Spanish Regions: Preliminary Advancement of Results on Solidarity Matters Enric Martínez-Herrera RSCAS, Firenze, 15 June 2009
Warning on Weighting • Careful selection of pollster that could really conduct interviews in Catalan and Galician • Galician (and Basque) elections • The samples have to be weighted in order to attain the proportions of international and national migrants at the census and hence producing valid results • International migrants under-represented on purpose but ensuring they are represented (in special, Africans) by at least 75% of their numbers in census • National migrants (seriously) under-represented by pollster dessign-effect in Catalonia E. Martinez-Herrera 2009
The Samples and Immigration (1/2) E. Martinez-Herrera 2009
The Samples and Immigration (2/2) E. Martinez-Herrera 2009
Interpretation Notes • Wealth (1990-2000s): • Catalonia has been the 3rd wealthiest region in Spain (out of 17) • Castilla-La Mancha and Galicia have ranked 13th and 14th (out of 17) • Regional Identity • Catalonia comes first and Galicia second, although quite mobilized too • Castilla-La Mancha historically belongs to mainstream Castilian Spain • Competences (Powers) • Catalonia and Galicia among those with more powers (but Galicia less than Catalonia in terms of per capita public budget) • Castilla-La Mancha has less historically less powers and budget, although a decade ago it was assimilated to a large extent to the other two E. Martinez-Herrera 2009
Background: perception of relative economic situation E. Martinez-Herrera 2009
4.000.000 of unemployed – about half of them are migrants Solidarity to Migrants E. Martinez-Herrera 2009
Spanish government should even out economic differences between different parts of Spain E. Martinez-Herrera 2009
Money sh’d be transferred from richer parts to the poorer parts to ensure similar levels of public services E. Martinez-Herrera 2009
Preferred distribution of financial help for homeless, handicaped, elder or third world, between local, regional, country, European and rest of the world DK/NA = 12% E. Martinez-Herrera 2009
Every community sh’d take responsibility for satifying its needs without receiving money from others E. Martinez-Herrera 2009
More interests in common with people from the same class or from the same autonomous community? E. Martinez-Herrera 2009