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Study title

Finnish National Election Study 2007

Creator

Paloheimo, Heikki (University of Tampere. Department of Political Science and International Relations)

Study number / PID

FSD2269 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2269 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2269 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Finnish National Election Studies

Finnish National Election Studies are nationally representative surveys conducted in connection with parliamentary elections in Finland. Data have been collected by the Election Study Consortium from the year 2003 onwards. For further information, see Finnish National Election Study Consortium site. The data allow study of changes in public opinion and democracy over time. Some modules are repeated but each study also contains questions on current issues. Main themes include political participation, political attitudes, candidate and party choice, voting, and election campaigning.

Abstract

The survey consists of two parts which were collected after the 2007 parliamentary elections in Finland with the help of face-to-face interviews and a supplementary, self-administered questionnaire. Swedish-speaking population is over-represented in the data. The interview data form Finland's contribution to the international Comparative Study of Electoral Systems program (CSES). The respondents were asked about their interest in politics and how much they had followed the elections in different media. Their views were canvassed on which group they primarily identified with, self-perceived social status, how stable their party preference was, and what they would be willing to do in order to promote the issues they considered important. Views on voting, participating in parliamentary elections, politics, politicians, and various institutions were queried with the help of attitudinal statements. The respondents were also asked questions about the Internet and the ways of using it as a means of political participation. Next, the respondents were asked whether they had held any municipal elected offices, and whether they were members of any political party. They were also asked to name objectives which the recently elected members of parliament in their constituency should focus on, and also to name the most important issues debated during the past parliamentary elections as well as the most severe social problems in Finland. The respondents were asked whether they thought voting makes any difference, and whether it makes any difference who is in power. They were also asked to assess the performance of the previous government led by Matti Vanhanen. In addition, the respondents were asked to place various political parties as well as Matti Vanhanen, Eero Heinäluoma, Jyrki Katainen, and themselves on the left-right axis. Some questions focused on how the parties had distinguished themselves from each other during the elections, to what extent the respondents had...
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Topics

Social sciencesPolitical behaviour and attitudesElections

Keywords

Election campaignsElectionsInternetParliamentary candidatesParliamentary electionsParty identificationPolitical allegiancePolitical attitudesPolitical awarenessPolitical influencePolitical interestPolitical participation
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Methodology

Data collection period

20/03/2007 - 22/05/2007

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finnish people entitled to vote in the 2007 parliamentary elections

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Quota

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview
Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Funding information

Funder

Academy of Finland

Grant number

114851

Funder

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Funder

Ministry of Justice

Funder

Advisory Council for Youth Affairs

Funder

The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland

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Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2009

Terms of data access

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

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