Jiu Valley Portal

Is there a person in your household that is the head of the household? (that takes decisions for the entire household)

What is your maternal language

Besides your maternal language, what other languages do you know sufficient enough to take part in a conversation?

1. Romanian	3. Gypsy	5. English	7. Russian	0. none
2. Hungarian	4. German	6. French	8. other, which __________	99. NA

Which is your religion?

1.orthodox

2. romano-catholic

3. protestant

4. Greek-catholic

5. neo-protestant

6. no religion

7. other, which __________

8. non-declared religion 98. NS

Are you a momarlan?

Do you intend to leave the Jiu Valley in the next two years?

.Do you have a plan in this regard (do you know where you are going)?

Is that place in Romania or abroad?

Do you plan to leave alone or with the entire family?

Results

Do you plan to leave the Valley permanently or just for a period?

Which is the main reason for which you intend to leave the Jiu Valley ?

Which is the main reason for which you intend NOT to leave the Jiu Valley ?

What about after you retire?

In the end please tell us if the following talk heard by us from people in the Jiu Valley are true or false.		True	Rather true	False	NR
1.	The miners that were dismissed on request were “lazy people that were glad of the money”	1	2	3	9
2.	The dismissed miners „were fooled by politicians, that in a couple of months they will have other jobs”.	1	2	3	9
3.	Miners don’t take sick leave even when they have serious health problems because they are afraid of being fired	1	2	3	9
4.	Miners take their coal coupons and sell them, because „Moldova is full of trucks with coal from the Valley”.	1	2	3	9
5.	„Here you have to be careful for your bosses not to hear that you talk, because they have people everywhere and they fire you immediately of you squeal”.	1	2	3	9
6.	„In mining you don’t need too much school, just to be stupid and powerful.”	1	2	3	9
7.	„People from the Valley are backward. There are many that don’t know from Petrila to Uricani, let aside the rest of the country”.	1	2	3	9
8.	„People here are easy to manipulate”	1	2	3	9
9.	Life in the countryside (in a village) is harder and worst than in the Valley.	1	2	3	9
10.	After1997, „people here are mean and not united. All look around to see that their neighbors don’t fare better than them”.	1	2	3	9
11.	The “Momarlans” do only easy work and most of them are „the boss’ ears”	1	2	3	9
12.	The “Momarlans” are the best in the Valley	1	2	3	9
13.	„Politicians come here, visit, talk, lie and do nothing.”	1	2	3	9
14.	„The entrepreneurs here are corrupt and exploit people”.	1	2	3	9
15.	„People from Bucharest are like this. They don’t know what hardship is, but they know to talk.”	1	2	3	9
16.	„Without mining the Jiu Valley will die.”	1	2	3	9

Results

Which is in your opinion the best solution for developing the Jiu Valley ?

1. development of tourism

2. arrival of major Romanian investors

3. arrival of major foreign investors

4. development of mining

5. financing by the Government of major infrastructure works

6. development of small livestock farms

7. move the population from the Valley to other parts

8. other, which

99. NA

Results

At what do you think when you say that?

How do the locals call the area in which you live?

THANK YOU!