Summary information

Study title

European Parliamentary Elections 2014: Candidate Responses to Helsingin Sanomat Candidate Selector

Creator

Mäkinen, Esa (Helsingin Sanomat. Data journalism)

Study number / PID

FSD3030 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3030 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3030 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

This dataset consists of responses by Finnish candidates in the 2014 European Parliament election to a voting advice application maintained by the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The candidates were presented with thirty attitudinal statements which they evaluated on a five-point Likert scale. These statements concerned, for instance, EU membership and the Union's usefulness for Finland, immigration, economy, and values. Background variables included party, age and education.

Methodology

Data collection period

04/2014 - 05/2014

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finland's candidates in the 2014 European Parliament election

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2017

Terms of data access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Related publications

Not available