Aineiston nimi

Parties and Local Democracy 1996: Electors

Aineistonumero

FSD1023

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1023

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Borg, Sami (University of Tampere)

Sisällön kuvaus

The survey compared Finnish voters with the members of seven largest political parties, candidates of the 1996 municipal elections and municipal council members. The respondents were asked which party they would vote for in the next parliamentary elections and which party they had voted for in the municipal elections. If the respondents had voted in the municipal elections, reasons for candidate and party choice were surveyed. Non-voters were asked why they had not voted. The role of the media in municipal elections was charted. There were questions about the members' activity in the parties and their interest in elective offices. The respondents were presented with statements concerning municipal policy and politics in general. They were asked to assess to what extent the work of councillors is appreciated, whether they saw themselves as representatives of their background groups in their parties, and how important it was that the municipal council was representative of the municipal electorate. The present state and development needs of a number of municipal services and tasks were evaluated. The party members were questioned about how municipal democracy, service production and efficiency of decision-making could be improved. Finally, the respondents were asked who had real influence in their home municipality, how active party members they thought themselves to be, and how active their own local association was.

Background variables included the respondent's sex, age, occupational group, vocational education, type of employer, household income, type of residence, and municipality of residence.

Asiasanat

elections; internal politics; local government; local government services; parliamentary elections; political action; political allegiance; political attitudes; political behaviour; political participation; political parties; political power; voting

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Government, political systems and organisations (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Elections (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

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

Kerääjät

• Gallup Finland (Gallup Finland)

Ajallinen kattavuus

1996

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

1996-10-21 – 1996-11-30

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Population of Finland aged 18 or over at the time of the interview (poislukien the Åland Islands)

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Probability: Multistage

Normal Omnibus-procedure and an agreement to mail survey. Variables 1-18 were obtained through the Omnibus-survey and variables 19-50 through the mail survey.

Omnibus sample. The sample represents Finnish population aged 15 or over, excluding the citizens of the Åland Islands. Multistage stratified sampling. The target population was stratified according to the number of inhabitants aged 15 or over in each province and in the second stage, by municipality group within each province. Municipalities were classified into five groups: big and small cities (according to population size) and into three rural municipality groups (according to their industrial structure). The sample municipalities were selected representatively. In the third stage, sample households were selected using the starting point method. The first interview was conducted in the randomly selected starting point, after which the interviewer proceeded to the next five households. From each household the person who corresponded to the sex and age criteria defined in the selection card was chosen for the interview.

Keruumenetelmä

Face-to-face interview

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Datatiedostojen kieli

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Havaintojen ja muuttujien lukumäärä

260 muuttujaa ja 911 havaintoa.

Datan versio

4.0

Katso myös

FSD1021 Parties and Municipal Democracy 1996: Candidates

FSD1022 Parties and Local Democracy 1996: Party Members

FSD1024 Parties and Local Democracy 1996: Combined Data

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

The variable identifying municipality has been removed from the data set.

Painokertoimet

There are no weight variables in the data.

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Borg, Sami (University of Tampere): Parties and Local Democracy 1996: Electors [dataset]. Version 4.0 (2018-07-13). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1023

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

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Varaumat

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Julkaisut aineistosta

Puolueet 1990-luvulla: näkökulmia suomalaiseen puoluetoimintaan (1997). Toim. Sami Borg. Turku: Turun yliopisto. Valtio-opillisia tutkimuksia; 53.

Palazzolo, Christopher A. (2007). Electoral Independence, Dependence, or Co-Dependence?: a Reassessment of Second-Order Electoral Expectations in Subnational Elections. Atlanta: Emory University. Emory University Dissertations (Ph.D.), Department of Political Science.

Oulasvirta, Lasse & Brännkärr, Christer (2001). Toimiva kunta. Helsinki: Kuntakoulutus.

Borg, Sami (1998). Puolueet ja edustuksellinen kunnallisdemokratia: tutkimus poliittisesta edustautumisesta ja legitimiteetistä. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. Tampereen yliopisto. Kunnallistieteiden laitos. Julkaisusarja; 1/1998.