Study title

Deliberative Mini-Public's on the Satakunta 2050 Regional Plan aimed to find out the views of Satakunta residents on the future of the region. The data consists of a recruitment questionnaire and pre-, mid- and final questionnaires addressed to the participants of the deliberative mini-publics. The data was collected as part of the Participation in Long-Term Decision-Making (PALO) research project, funded by the Strategic Research Council of the Research Council of Finland. First, respondents were asked for their views on various statements concerning Satakunta and its future. Questions were asked about issues such as security, culture and environmental protection. Respondents were asked to rate which issues were most important for the development of the region. In terms of democracy and decision-making, the survey asked how much trust was placed in various social institutions and political decision-makers, what was important in decision-making, and how well democracy was seen to work in Finland. Regarding the future, respondents were asked how much decision-making should take future generations into consideration, and how much respondents themselves thought about the future of the region from the perspective of future generations. There was also interest in the feelings that the respondents had about the future of Satakunta. Finally, the participants in the deliberative mini-publics were asked about the effectiveness of the mini-public and their motives for participating in it. The alphabetic characters in the variable names indicate which questionnaire the questions are from: rs = recruitment questionnaire, pre = pre-questionnaire, post = mid-questionnaire, end = end-questionnaire. Questions that are repeated in the questionnaires in a similar way are numbered in the same way in each questionnaire. Respondents who participated in the mini-public can be distinguished from other respondents, for example by using the Treatment-variable. Background variables...