Summary information

Study title

Finnish Voter Barometers 1992-2005: Combined Data

Creator

Gallup Finland

TNS Gallup

Study number / PID

FSD2274 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2274 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2274 (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

This combined data includes surveys from 1992 to 2005. Survey themes include voting behaviour, opinions on the government and the parties, and attitudes towards national political issues. In addition, the respondents' economic expectations and political participation have often been studied, as well as their opinions on local politics, and the significance of the party leader to a party. Background variables have often included the social class of the respondent and the household head, economic activity of the household head, the respondent's education, age, mother tongue, gender, party membership, political views, trade union membership, and the household's annual income. There are also regional variables. Even though the variables are not always fully comparable from one survey to another, all kinds of comparisons over time are possible. The questions that have remained almost unchanged over the years cover the respondents' political view, their image of the parties, and how the government had succeeded in various tasks. The combined data also include plenty of questions that have not been asked every year, including the questions on the European Parliament elections and the choice of the members of the European Parliament, questions on election advertising and voting intentions, as well as questions on the characteristics of the members of the parliament, the EU constitution, and the focus of political attention.

Social sciencesPolitical behaviour and attitudes

AchievementConstitutionsElection campaignsElectionsEuropean integrationEuropean Parliament electionsGovernmentLocal government electionsParliamentary electionsPolitical attitudesPolitical behaviourPolitical parties

Data collection period

1992 - 2005

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finnish population aged 15 and over

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2007

Terms of data access

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

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