Affiliation, Representation of Interests and Political Mediation
Affiliation, Representation of Interests and Political Mediation
This publication provides information which leads to the knowledge of the tools available for citizens to express their social, economic and political interests and of some population characteristics associated to professional councils or volunteer organizations.
It presents tables with data about persons 18 years of age or over, encompassing affiliation to unions, participation in professional councils or volunteer organizations; preferences of affiliation and membership; non-institutional political participation through personal contact with politicians and government members; participation through the system of political representation, parties and votes, as well as sources of political information and the institutions which, according to the evaluation of interviewees, best defend their interests.
The publication includes comments and graphs about the results presented, as well as the definitions of the characteristics investigated and the sampling plan of the Monthly Employment Survey of April 1996, encompassing the six metropolitan areas in the country.
These results allow the monitoring of some aspects of this type of political participation, especially in relation to the topic Affiliation, which is also a topic for study of the supplementary investigation of the National Household Sample Survey of 1998.