The survey focuses on a wider social space where culture is created and interpreted. However, the culture is not perceived as a unified system but as a set of repertoires consisting of symbols, stories, rituals, and manuals that people choose from when they form and justify their actions. The survey seeks to understand the culture by using these repertoires and is therefore designed quite broadly - it is aimed at the perception of culture and within this perception, the survey concentrates on cultural participation, cultural identity, relationship to other cultures and collective memory as well as on social capital and leisure time. A key role in the survey is played by values and the effort to point out the links that values have to other studied phenomena. The survey sample is representative of the population of Slovakia over 16 years of age and was compiled by using quota selection.

Inhabitants of the Slovak Republic over 16 years of age