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The Swedish National Election Study 2014 was conducted in collaboration between the Department of Political Science in Gothenburg and Statistics Sweden (SCB). This collaboration has covered all of the parliamentary elections, referendums and elections to the European Parliament since 1956. The Department of Political Science is responsible for the questionnaires, interview instructions, processing of data, coding and analyses. SCB is responsible for sampling, field work and reporting to the official statistics. The election study 2014 was conducted in a collaboration between the Department of Political Science in Gothenburg and Statistics Sweden (SCB). This collaboration has covered all of the parliamentary elections, referendums and elections to the European Parliament since 1956. The Department of Political Science is responsible for the questionnaires, interview instructions, processing of data, coding and analyses. SCB is responsible for sampling, field work and reporting to the official statistics. The election study of the parliamentary election 2014 follows the same design as all of the previous election studies since the election in 1973. The study includes a representative sample of 3971 Swedish citizens who are qualified to vote in the age range 18–80 years old. Swedish citizens living abroad were excluded from the sample. 2230 individuals from the 3971 individuals included in the sample participated in an interview (56 percent). The number of drop-outs (non-response) was 1741 individuals. 845 individuals from this group declined participation, 800 individuals were not available and 91 persons could not participate because of illness or similar reasons (information is missing for 5 individuals). The study is divided into two stages, one stage before the election and one stage after the election. Half of the sample is selected to be interviewed before the election, and the other half of the sample is to be interviewed after the election. The...