Summary information

Study title

Parliamentary Elections 2019: Responses to Union of Freethinkers of Finland Candidate Selector

Creator

Union of Freethinkers of Finland

Study number / PID

FSD3366 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3366 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3366 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Responses to Union of Freethinkers Candidate Selector for Finnish Parliamentary Elections

The Union of Freethinkers of Finland collects opinions of parliamentary elections candidates through its online candidate selector. Data collection started in 2007. The selector is made available every four years during parliamentary elections campaigning and voting. Candidates answer questions which focus on the status and teaching of religion in primary and lower secondary schools, and the status of the church in Finnish society, including taxation rights and the right to organise burial services and weddings. Other users can answer the same questions in the selector interface, and can...

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Abstract

This dataset contains responses to questions in the voting advice application of the Union of Freethinkers of Finland for the Finnish parliamentary elections 2019 by candidates as well as users of the application. Questions concerned, for instance, whether blasphemy should remain prohibited in the Finnish Criminal Code, whether circumcision of boys should be legal or illegal, whether the church should have the right to collect tax, whose responsibility burials and maintenance of cemeteries should be, how religion should be incorporated into primary school curricula, and whether employers should have the right to prohibit the use of certain items of clothing, such as a headscarf which covers the head and hair (hijab), at work. Background variables for parliamentary candidates included name, party, electoral district and web page. Background variables for users of the voting advice application included party filter set by the user, electoral district, and time and date of responding.

Methodology

Data collection period

08/12/2018 - 02/04/2019

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Candidates in the 2019 Finnish parliamentary elections and users of the voting advice application of the Union of Freethinkers of Finland

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Purposive
Non-probability: Availability

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2020

Terms of data access

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

Related publications

Not available