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Study title

Finnish National Election Study 1991

Creator

Pesonen, Pertti (University of Tampere. Research Institute for Social Sciences)
Sänkiaho, Risto (University of Tampere. Research Institute for Social Sciences)
Borg, Sami (University of Tampere. Research Institute for Social Sciences) - 0000-0002-1066-6039

Study number / PID

FSD1088 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1088 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd1088 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Finnish National Election Studies

Finnish National Election Studies are nationally representative surveys conducted in connection with parliamentary elections in Finland. Data have been collected by the Election Study Consortium from the year 2003 onwards. For further information, see Finnish National Election Study Consortium site. The data allow study of changes in public opinion and democracy over time. Some modules are repeated but each study also contains questions on current issues. Main themes include political participation, political attitudes, candidate and party choice, voting, and election campaigning.

Abstract

In this survey focusing on the Finnish parliamentary elections of 1991, voters were interviewed both before and after the elections. In the interviews before the elections, the respondents were asked if they were members of trade unions, political parties and other organisations, and how actively they were involved in the activities. They were also asked if they read newspapers and followed current affairs programmes on TV and on the radio, and if so, how often and which papers/programmes. General interest in politics and participation in political activities were investigated, as well as willingness to use various means of civic activity to influence things. The respondents were asked to what extent they agreed with a number of statements relating to politics and political actors. They were also asked to assess 17 groups in society on a scale from -50 to +50 according to their attitude towards these groups, negative to positive. Views were probed on whether those in power in the society had too much, too little, or the right amount of power. Knowledge of the present parliament was tested by asking what the four biggest parties in Parliament were and which parties formed the cabinet. In addition, the respondents were asked whether they intended to vote in the forthcoming elections and their reasons for either voting or abstaining. Those who intended to vote were asked what party they were going to vote for and why. The interviewed persons were also asked about their voting pattern in the previous parliamentary and presidential elections and what they thought about the election prospects of the present political parties in Parliament. In the interviews after the elections, questions covered opinions on the election results, interest in the campaign, and events preceding the elections. The respondents were asked if they believed that international events like the Gulf War or the situation in the Baltic States had affected the election results, information sources...
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Topics

Social sciencesPolitical behaviour and attitudesElections

Keywords

Parliamentary electionsVotingPolitical allegiancePolitical attitudesElection campaignsPolitical participation

Methodology

Data collection period

07/01/1991 - 05/1991

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

People aged between 18 and 75 living in Finland

Excludes: Persons without fixed address or those committed to institutions

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview
Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2006

Terms of data access

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

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