Summary information

Study title

Parliamentary Elections 2003: Candidate Responses to YLE Candidate Selector

Creator

Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE)

Study number / PID

FSD1295 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1295 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd1295 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

Prior to the parliamentary elections, from 18 February to 16 March 2003, YLE (Finland's national public service broadcasting company) had a candidate selection engine on its website. The data consist of answers given by parliamentary candidates to questions presented on the website. Questions covered national defence, Finland's potential NATO membership, adaptation problems of immigrants, judiciary system, health care, youth crime, long-term unemployment, government composition after the elections, gender wage inequality, tax cuts, buying sex, social security benefits, whether Swedish should be an obligatory subject in schools, and whether same-sex couples should have the right to adopt children. The data also contain information on whether the candidate was selected to Parliament or not. Please note: the candidate selection engine also included a number of open-ended questions the answers to which are not be available in English.

Social sciencesElections

Defence and state security policy (ELSST)Electoral issues (ELSST)Employment (ELSST)Immigration policy (ELSST)National policy (ELSST)Parliamentary candidates (ELSST)Parliamentary elections (ELSST)Social policy (ELSST)Taxation (ELSST)

Data collection period

01/2003 - 02/2003

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Parliamentary candidates in the 2003 parliamentary elections in Finland

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2006

Terms of data access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

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