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Summary information

Study title

The municipal and county council survey (KOLFU) 2008

Creator

Gilljam, Mikael (Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg)
Karlsson, David (School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg)
Sundell, Anders (Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg)

Study number / PID

snd0984-1-1.0 (SND)

https://doi.org/10.5878/002746 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

KOLFU is a survey addressed to all members of Sweden's 20 county councils and 290 municipal councils (a total of about 13 500 people). KOLFU was conducted for the first time in 2008-2009 (KOLFU 2008). The actual number of respondents was 9 890. KOLFU 2008 was conducted by a research team at the University of Gothenburg, while the company Detector AB was responsible for the fieldwork. The survey was conducted as part of the project "Politiker tycker om demokrati". The research team consisted of Mikael Gilljam (project manager), David Karlsson and Anders Sundell. KOLFU includes questions on the representatives' social background, their opinions on political issues, their view on the rules of democracy and the political process in their own municipality and county council. The results from KOLFU 2008 are presented in the book "Politik på hemmaplan. Tiotusen fullmäktigeledamöter tycker om politik och demokrati" (Gilljam, et al., 2010a), among others. Purpose: The municipal and county council survey (KOLFU) 2008 aims to study Swedish local and regional political representatives' attitudes on democracy and politics.

Topics

POLITICSPolitical behaviour and attitudesSocial SciencesPolitical Science

Keywords

Local government policyPolitical behaviourDemocracyInternal politicsPolitical representationPolitical partiesRegional policyPoliticiansRepresentative democracy

Methodology

Data collection period

2008 - 2009

Country

Sweden

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Members of the Swedish municipal and county councils

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

KOLFU is a survey addressed to all members of Sweden's 20 counties and 290 municipalities (a total of about 13 500 people). KOLFU was conducted for the first time in 2008-2009 (KOLFU 2008). The actual number of respondents was 9 890.KOLFU 2008 was conducted by a research team at the University of Gothenburg, while the company Detector AB was responsible for the fieldwork. The survey was conducted as part of the project ""Politiker tycker om demokrati"". The research team consisted of Mikael Gilljam (project manager), David Karlsson and Anders Sundell. KOLFU includes questions on the representatives' social background, their opinions on political issues, their view on the rules of democracy and the political process in their own municipality and county council.
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Funding information

Funder

Swedish Research Council

Grant number

421-2005-1350

Access

Publisher

Swedish National Data Service

Publication year

2015

Terms of data access

Access to data through SND. Access to data is restricted.

Related publications

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