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Study title

Finnish National Election Study 2015

Creator

Grönlund, Kimmo (Åbo Akademi University. Social Science Research Institute) - 0000-0001-9386-5043
Kestilä-Kekkonen, Elina (University of Tampere. School of Management) - 0000-0003-3645-4082

Study number / PID

FSD3067 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3067 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3067 (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

Finnish National Election Study 2015 charted the political participation, political attitudes, party allegiance, candidate and party choice, and voting behaviour of Finns. Further topics included citizens' initiative, different ways of having a say, and future prospects of Finland. The data were collected after the elections through face-to-face interviews and a self-administered drop-off questionnaire. The interview data contain Finland's contribution to the international CSES study (module 4). First questions in the interview covered interest in politics, attention paid to media coverage of the elections (including social media), Internet use, discussions about politics with others, party identification and self-perceived social class. The respondents were asked to what extent they agreed with some statements relating to voting, democracy, the electoral system, and decision-making. Willingness to influence things by own activity (for instance, by participating in a demonstration or joining a consumer boycott) was charted as well as membership in a political party. Concerning citizens' initiative, the respondents were asked whether they thought the introduction of the initiative had promoted democracy in Finland and whether they had signed any initiatives. Opinions on the importance of the Internet and social media as channels of civic engagement were surveyed. The survey also carried a set of attitudinal statements on voting, politics, political parties, politicians and public political influence (e.g. 'I have no say in what the Government and Parliament decide' or 'By voting, ordinary people can influence political decision-making'. With regard to the future prospects of Finland, the respondents were asked which future directions they thought sounded good or bad (e.g. "more entrepreneurship and market economy", "better equality between men and women"). The CSES module explored the respondents' opinions on the economic situation of Finland, own financial...
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Topics

Social sciencesPolitical behaviour and attitudesElections

Keywords

Election campaignsElectionsInternetParliamentary candidatesParliamentary electionsParty identificationPersonality traitsPolitical allegiancePolitical attitudesPolitical awarenessPolitical influencePolitical interest
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Methodology

Data collection period

24/04/2015 - 07/07/2015

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

People living in Finland and entitled to vote in the Finnish parliamentary elections in 2015

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

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

Funding information

Funder

Ministry of Justice

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2016

Terms of data access

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

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