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Finnish Voter Barometer 1974

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Finnish Voter Barometer 1980

Finnish Voter Barometer 1981

Finnish Voter Barometer 1979

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Study title

Finnish Voter Barometer 1983

Creator

Gallup Finland
University of Helsinki. Department of Political Science

Study number / PID

FSD1011 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1011 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd1011 (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...

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Abstract

The data were collected in two rounds. In the first round, before the 1983 parliamentary elections, the respondents were asked how they had voted in the 1982 presidential elections and in the 1980 municipal elections, and how they were going to vote in the forthcoming parliamentary elections. In the second round, after the elections, the respondents were asked whether they voted or not, when they voted and how interested they were in politics. Several questions focused on the respondent's party loyalty and choice of candidate. In addition, the respondents were asked what they regarded as the most important goals of political activity, and whether they had been involved in the work of various organisations. The respondents assessed different parties, and conflicts of interests between various groups in society. Background variables included the respondents gender, education, occupation, age, year of birth, number of school-age children, household income, occupation of the head of the household, type of municipality of residence, and province of residence.

Topics

Social sciencesPolitical behaviour and attitudes

Keywords

ElectionsParliamentary electionsMunicipal electionsPresidential electionsVotingPolitical behaviourPolitical attitudesParty identificationSocial conflict

Methodology

Data collection period

02/1983 - 1983

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finnish population aged 18 or over

Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2000

Terms of data access

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

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