Summary information

Study title

European Parliamentary Elections 2014: Candidate Responses to YLE Candidate Selector

Creator

Ervasti, Pekka (Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE). Politics)

Study number / PID

FSD2992 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2992 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2992 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

This dataset consists of responses to the voting advice application of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) by Finnish candidates in the 2014 European Parliament election. The candidates' opinions were charted with 30 attitudinal statements which they evaluated on a likert scale. The statements concerned, for instance, attitude toward EU, workers immigrating from other EU countries, the influence of business life in the EU, illegal immigration, free movement, limitations and costs to businesses caused by the EU, and costs of EU membership. Background variables included name, party, age, occupation, education, employer, campaign budget, and the primary source of campaign funding.

Methodology

Data collection period

04/2014 - 05/2014

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finland's candidates in the 2014 European Parliament Election

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2017

Terms of data access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Related publications

Not available