Study title

The second Swedish election to the EU-parliament was held on the 13th of June 1999. As in connection to all general elections and referenda held in Sweden since 1956, an election study was carried out in connection to this election. The main subject of the survey was the European Union and the respondent´s attitudes toward the Swedish EU membership, but the survey also included a number of questions asked in one or several of the Swedish election studies. General questions about politics included: daily newspaper reading habits regarding national politics, local politics, politics in foreign countries and EU-related issues; exposure to news in different media; interest in politics in general, as well as in EU-related issues; the importance of the EU-parliament election and if any issues were of particular importance when deciding how to vote in the election; opinion on the most positive and the most negative effects of EU; opinion on the political parties and their party leaders on a scale ranging from -5 to +5; trust in Swedish politicians, the EU-parliament, the EU-commission, and in the Swedish parliament; opinion on the social democratic government; the most important issues to deal with within the European Union; party preferences; placement of respondent and the political parties on a political left-right scale. Furthermore the respondents had to state their opinion on a number of currently debated issues. Respondents had to give their opinion on the effect of a Swedish EU-membership on areas such as: environment, economy, employment, agriculture, social security, equality between men and women, military security, national independence, development of the European Union, price level of food, crime prevention, immigrants and refugees. They also had to give their judgement of the achievment of the European Union within the same areas, and if they prefered decisions in these areas to be taken on national or European Union level. The respondents had to give...