Summary information

Study title

Finnish Voter Barometer October-November 1994

Creator

Gallup Finland

Study number / PID

FSD1030 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1030 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd1030 (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

In the survey, the respondents' attitude towards different political parties in Finland was canvassed, along with their opinions about how the government and the opposition parties had succeeded in their tasks. The respondents were also asked to estimate the significance of the party leader to a party, and tell how well various characteristics describe different parties. Voting behaviour was charted by asking for what party the respondent voted in the 1992 municipal elections and in the 1991 parliamentary elections, and what party would he/she vote for if the parliamentary elections were held at the time of the survey. The respondents were also presented with several statements relating to society and politics and asked to what extent they agreed. Furthermore, the respondents were asked whether they took care of buying groceries or cooking in the household. Background variables included, among others, the respondent's year of birth, gender, marital status, age group, annual gross income of the household, type of municipality of residence, province of residence, basic and vocational education, main economic activity, weekly working hours, employer type, trade union membership, left-right political self-placement, self-perceived social class, and mother tongue.

Social sciencesPolitical behaviour and attitudes

Elections (ELSST)Local government elections (ELSST)Parliamentary elections (ELSST)Voting (ELSST)Political behaviour (ELSST)Political attitudes (ELSST)Unemployment (ELSST)Public debt (ELSST)Social services (ELSST)

Data collection period

28/10/1994 - 01/11/1994

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Population of Finland aged 15 years 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

2000

Terms of data access

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

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