The average percentage of EU residents describing their country of residence as safe is higher than that in Lithuania – 84 percent of EU respondents said their country was safe and 15 percent said it was unsafe.
Carried out in December and published in May, the survey showed that 83 percent of Lithuanian respondents referred to the EU as a safe place to live, as compared to the overall percentage in the EU of 81 percent (opposite opinions were stated by 13 percent and 16 percent of those polled, respectively).
Some 81 percent of respondents in Lithuania and 89 percent of respondents in the EU said their city or village was safe, while 18 percent of Lithuanian respondents and 10 percent of EU residents said it was not safe.
Eurobarometer interviewed nearly 26,700 respondents in the EU including 1,025 in Lithuania.
2012 06 06
Two thirds of Lithuanians see country as safe place to live
Some 74 percent of Lithuanian residents think the country is a safe place to live, while 25 percent think in the opposite, shows a survey published by the European Union's (EU) statistics agency Eurobarometer.
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