Summary information

Study title

Finnish Opinions on Security Policy and National Defence 1992: Autumn

Creator

Advisory Board for Defence Information (ABDI)

Study number / PID

FSD1157 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1157 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd1157 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Finnish Opinions on Security Policy and National Defence

The Finnish Opinions on Security Policy and National Defence series includes all surveys conducted by the Advisory Board for Defence Information (ABDI). Their focus is on security policy, foreign policy and national defence. The FSD collections cover data from 1992 onwards. The surveys contain a set of core questions repeated over the years.

Abstract

The survey studied citizens' attitudes towards, for instance, Finnish foreign policy, and the warfare in the former Yugoslavia. The respondents' personal opinions on the likelihood of military conflicts, on neutrality policy, armed national defence, defence appropriation, and the obligatory military service (conscription) were asked. In addition, views on restoring Karelia from Russia to Finland, on the amount and nationality of foreigners that should be allowed to Finland, and on phenomena influencing the security of Finland and of Finnish citizens were surveyed. Background variables included the respondent's sex, age group, social group, education, and the place and area of residence.

Social sciencesConflict, security and peacePolitical behaviour and attitudes

Civil defenceConscriptionConflict resolutionInternational conflict resolutionDefence and state security policyForeignersForeign policyImmigrantsNational security

Data collection period

06/11/1992 - 23/11/1992

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finns aged 15 or over

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2001

Terms of data access

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

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