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Study title

Follow-up on Parliamentary Elections 1999

Creator

Moring, Tom (University of Helsinki) - 0000-0002-5036-3366
Gallup Finland
"Changes in Finnish TV Election Campaigns" project

Study number / PID

FSD1042 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1042 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd1042 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Follow-ups on Finnish National and Local Elections (GallupChannel)

Kantar has been collecting follow-up data on Finnish public elections, using its computerised Kantar Forum Channel system (previously known as GallupChannel). The project has been led by, among others, Tom Moring and Juhani Pehkonen. The surveys have studied voting behaviour, political party and candidate choice, and what kind of influence the media, information sources, election campaigns and advertising have had on people's voting decisions.

Abstract

The respondents were asked whether they had voted in the 1996 municipal elections and in the 1995 and 1999 parliamentary elections, and which party they had voted for. They were also asked whether they had voted in advance or on the election day in 1999. The survey charted what affected the respondents' choice in the parliamentary elections, and how important certain factual issues were when the respondents made their decisions to vote. Some questions dealt with which had affected the decision more, the party of the candidate or the candidate. The respondents were asked from what sources they had received additional information to support their voting decision, what campaign-related TV-commercials they had seen, and what they thought about the commercials. The respondents were asked whether they had participated in campaign rallies, whether they had visited the websites of the candidates or the parties, and whether they had contacted parties/candidates over the Internet. Furthermore, they were asked if they had used voting advice applications on the Internet. Those who had abstained were asked the reason for abstaining. The respondents were also asked to name a party they would vote if they were forced to do so, or to name the party that would be the least unpleasant choice. Furthermore, they were asked what cabinet coalition would be the best, and whether they were employed at the time of the survey. Background variables included the respondent's gender, mother tongue, age, marital status, composition, size and income of the household, education, occupation, information on work, trade union membership, social class and place of residence, voting in elections, and position in a left-right scale. Background variables have been updated in August 1998.

Topics

Social sciencesPolitical behaviour and attitudesElections

Keywords

Election campaignsInformation sourcesLocal government electionsParliamentary electionsParty identificationPolitical allegiancePolitical supportVotingVoting advice applicationsVoting behaviour

Methodology

Data collection period

03/1999

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Population of Finland aged 15 or over

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2000

Terms of data access

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

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