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This exit poll survey was carried out in connection with the first Swedish election to the European parliament on September 17, 1995. In VALU - Swedish exit poll surveys - voters leaving polling stations are asked by public service broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) to fill in a questionnaire and put it anonymously in a sealed box. After collecting and processing the responses, Sveriges Television is able to present an election forecast and an analysis of the reasons underlying the outcome of the election in it´s Election Night broadcast. The surveys are referred to as VALU, an abbreviation for vallokalsundersökning, Swedish for exit poll survey. The first exit poll survey in Sweden was carried out at the parliamentary election in 1991. Since then similar studies have been carried out in connection with all Parliamentary elections, referendums and elections to the European Parliament. Voters leaving the polling stations were asked to fill in a questionnaire including questions on: party voted for; type of ballot used; vote on individual or party; time for decision how to vote; party voted for in the general election 1994; party voted for if a general election should have been held at the same day; alternative voted for at the referendum on Swedish EU-membership in 1994; opinion on the Swedish EU-membership; confidence in Swedish politicians; placement on a political left-right scale; gender, age, occupational group and union membership. The respondents also had to indicate the importance of the policy in EU-questions, achievements in Swedish politics, old party loyalities and the candidates when deciding how to vote. They also had to state the importance of following issues: environment, economy, employment, agriculture, peace in Europe, national independence, drugs, democracy, currency and defence. Furthermore they had to give their opinion on an introduction of a common currency within the European Union; taking up countries as Poland, the Czech Republic...