A. 1. Interpersonal relationship and trust
The majority of village inhabitants know each other. 85,1% know the majority of of people living on the same neighborhood (street) There was no answer showing that people do not know people in their neigbourhood.
As regarding the interpersonal trust, more than half of the respondents from Aliceni community said that they trust the majority of people living on the same neighborhood (street). Another 18.4% trust some of the people living on the same neigbourhood. 8 % of the respondents do not trust anybody in their neigbourhood.
This is in line with the item aiming to measure the degree in which people consider the community a place where people take care of each other. 79% of the respondents answered yes definitely or yes in some extent.
Due to the fact that Aliceni is a small community, people go often round to each other’s house. 36.8% have people round to their house every day and they are going round every day to friends or neighbours –32.2%. Only 1.1 % of the sample nevere receive visits. As the majority of the respondents are elderly people, they tens more to receive visits that to go visit other people. The percentage of people that never pay visits to other neighbours is 4.6%.
People visit each other weekly and more often during the week.
A. 2. Trust in institutions and relationship between individuals and institutions
From the responses, the majority of the initiatives for contacting state institutions were mainly at very local level, such as Local Council, public servants at local level, atended public meetings. None of the respondents have contacted the central autoihorities institutions. None of them participated in a public demonstration.
The most trusted institution is the the police (49.4%) followed by Local Council (47.1%), and the court (35.6%). The less trusted institutions are the Parliament (57.5%) and politicians (55.1%).
We have to note that, as the majority of the respondents are retired people, the answer regarding the degree of trust in emplyer have not a big relevance.
The perceived influence of individuals in the decizionmaking process of community life is low. Only 2.3 % are definitely sure that they can influence decisions affecting local area, and another 10.3 % tend to agree that they could have influence. A percentage of 41.7 % could not appreciate or did not answer.
B. Volunteer involvement
The types of activities in which people involves at local level are: religion activities-11.5 %, elderly –9.2 %. The next tuype of activities preferred, in a percentage of 5.7 each are children’s education and local community or neighbourhood groups. The respondents are willing to become involved in volunteer activities in a percentage of 41%, as they are generally old people.
The reasons that could make them more involved in such activities are mainly the availability of information about the things they could do (40.2%), a positive example of friends and/or family (35.6 %) and the possibility of doing this from home (34.5 %)
33.3% mentioned that they would involve in a voluntary activity if somebody will ask directly for help.
In the last 12 months they were helping non - relatives especially in cases when they have to give advice to someone- 55.2%, to do shopping, collecting pension or paying bills for someone – 32.2 %.
The next type of offered help was to keep in touch with someone who has difficulty getting out and about – 26.4 % as well as looking after a property or a pet for someone who is away and transporting or escorting someone – each with 24.1 %.
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