Summary information

Study title

Finnish Voter Barometer 1974

Creator

Gallup Finland

University of Helsinki. Department of Political Science

Study number / PID

FSD1001 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1001 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd1001 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Finnish Voter Barometers

The Finnish Voter Barometer surveys are commissioned by the major parties in the Parliament. In election years, other sponsors have also been involved. Up till 1988, the surveys were planned by Gallup Finland (TNS Gallup Ltd, Kantar) and the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki in collaboration with the political parties. After 1988, the planning has been in the hands of Gallup Finland and the parties. From 1973 to 1990, the annual voter barometers were collected mainly with face-to-face interviews using structured questionnaires, 1000-2000...

Abstract

The variables describe the following: image of the parties, party membership, interest in politics, membership in organisations, voting in the 1972 parliamentary and municipal elections, voting certainty, party choices, satisfaction with the government, necessity of new elections, forming of the cabinet, opinions on parties and politics, economic situation, agreement reached through collective bargaining, and the actions of political youth organisations. Some variables are connected with the interview situation and the social structure of the sample.

Social sciencesPolitical behaviour and attitudes

ElectionsParliamentary electionsMunicipal electionsVotingPolitical behaviourPolitical attitudes

Data collection period

02/05/1974 - 07/06/1974

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finnish population aged 18 or over

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

1999

Terms of data access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

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