Summary information

Study title

Referendum study 1994

Creator

Holmberg, Sören (Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg)
Gilljam, Mikael (Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg)
Statistics Sweden

Study number / PID

snd0496-1-1.0 (SND)

https://doi.org/10.5878/002912 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

In conjunction with the referendum on Swedish membership of the European Union (EU) an election study was carried out in collaboration between Statistics Sweden and the Department of Political Science at Göteborg University. All interviews were carried out before the day of the referendum, November 13 1994. The interview included questions on how much the respondent had been taking part of EU-issues in daily papers; political interest in general and interest in the EU-issue in particular; opinion on the EU, and if there had been some changes in the opinion during the last year. For all political parties the respondent had to state if the party supported ´yes´ or ´no´ in the referendum, and furthermore the respondent had to place the parties on a scale ranging from ´very negative´ to ´very positive´ towards a Swedish membership of the European Union. Other questions dealt with how a Swedish membership of the EU should affect a number of fields; opinion on a European federal state; and opinion on referenda in general. A number of questions dealt with the respondent´s knowledge of EU; probable outcome of the Swedish and Norwegian referenda respectively, and knowledge of the actual outcome of the Finnish referendum; attitudes towards EU among the surroundings, and the importance of other people´s attitudes and arguing for one´s own attitude; and how one plans to vote in the referendum. Besides the EU-specific questions the interview included questions on attitudes toward the various political parties; opinion on a number of topical questions; confidence in Swedish politicians; type of society one ought to go in for in the future; activities to influence political decisions; and own experiences of the tightening Swedish labour market. There are also information about education, occupation, trade union affiliation, marital status, and knowledge of languages. After the referendum the respondent had to answer a mail questionnaire, including questions on actual vote;...
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Methodology

Data collection period

03/10/1994 - 12/11/1994

Country

Sweden

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Swedish citizens entitled to vote, resident in Sweden and aged 18-80 years.

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Access

Publisher

Swedish National Data Service

Publication year

1997

Terms of data access

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

Related publications

Not available