Lithuania after the euro changeover : summary

On 1 January 2015, Lithuania joined the euro area, becoming the 19th country within the 28 EU Member States to adopt the euro as its currency. This report analyses the findings of a survey conducted among citizens of Latvia immediately after the introduction of the euro within the country. It examines their attitudes towards the new currency and the changeover process. Most of the results of this survey are compared with those from the last six countries that joined the euro area: Latvia on 1 January 2014, Estonia on 1 January 2011, Slovakia on 1 January 2009, Malta and Cyprus on 1 January 2008, and Slovenia on 1 January 2007. In each of these countries, immediately after the changeover, the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission conducted a Flash Eurobarometer survey in order to measure citizens' perceptions regarding the new currency and its implementation. As the questionnaires were essentially the same and the data collection periods similar in all seven surveys, direct comparisons between the results can be made. Some questions are also compared with a survey that was conducted exclusively in Lithuania in September 2014. This survey was carried out by the TNS Political & Social network in Lithuania. 1,000 respondents from different social and demographic groups were interviewed via telephone (landline and mobile phone) in their mother tongue on behalf of the European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs. The methodology used is that of Eurobarometer surveys as carried out by the Directorate-General for Communication ("Strategy, Corporate Communication Actions and Eurobarometer" Unit). A technical note on the manner in which interviews were conducted by the Institute within the TNS Political & Social network is appended as an annex to this report. Also included are the interview methods and confidence intervals.