Aineiston nimi

Young People and European Parliament Elections 1999

Aineistonumero

FSD1028

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1028

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Nurmela, Sakari (Gallup Finland)
• Pehkonen, Juhani (Gallup Finland)

Sisällön kuvaus

The survey studied the attitudes of Finnish young people towards the European Union, and their participation in the European Parliamentary elections in June 1999.

The Advisory Council for Youth Affairs (NUORA) followed the election behaviour of Finnish young people under 30 years of age in the 1999 parliamentary elections, the 1999 European Parliamentary elections and the presidential elections of the year 2000. By monitoring the voting behaviour of the youth, NUORA wanted to pay attention to young people's low turnout in elections, and to find out which factors contributed to this lack of interest.

The survey covered topics such as the respondents' opinions on the functioning of democracy in Finland, in the European Union, and on the local level. The respondents' knowledge about the EU and the European Parliament, and their views on Finland's EU membership were surveyed. Further questions focused on their causes of concern, political and social activities, voting behaviour in the European Parliamentary elections, and reasons for abstaining from voting. Participation in voluntary organisations was studied. The respondents were asked how effective they considered certain political participation methods to be: voting in elections, contacting politicians or public officials, expressing opinions in the media, participating in demostrations, boycotting, participating in political parties' activities, etc. One question pertained to how certain the respondents were that they were going to vote in the forthcoming presidential elections in 2000. Finally, the respondents were asked whether they would give their consent to be contacted after the forthcoming presidential elections.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, basic and vocational education, economic activity, occupational group, housing tenure, household compostition, type of neighbourhood, income level, vocational education of the parents, and own, spouse's and parents' unemployment periods. The dataset also contains several regional variables.

Asiasanat

European Parliament elections; European Union; democracy; elections; political attitudes; political interest; unemployment; voting; voting behaviour; youth

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Youth (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

Tuottajat

• Ministry of Education. The Advisory Council for Youth Affairs

Ajallinen kattavuus

1999

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

1999

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Young people aged between 18 and 30 living in Finland (poislukien the Åland Islands)

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Probability

665 Finnish young persons were interviewed. Earlier in the spring, 445 of them had participated in a similar type of survey after the parliamentary elections (FSD1027).

Keruumenetelmä

Telephone interview

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineistopaketti voi sisältää samoja tiedostoja eri kielisinä.

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

Tietoarkisto kääntää kvantitatiivisia datatiedostoja englanniksi. Lisätietoja käännöspyynnön jättämisestä.

Datan versio

3.0

Katso myös

FSD1027 Youth and Parliamentary Elections 1999

FSD1048 Young People and Presidential Elections 2000

FSD1247 Youth and Parliamentary Elections 2003

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

The variable identifying municipality has been removed from the data, and the variable E14 (What is your opinion on Finland's membership in the European Union) is missing.

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

Nurmela, Sakari (Gallup Finland) & Pehkonen, Juhani (Gallup Finland): Young People and European Parliament Elections 1999 [dataset]. Version 3.0 (2006-03-14). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1028

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

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

Suomen europarlamenttivaalit (2000). Toim. Pertti Pesonen. Tampere: Tampere University Press.

Nurmela, Sakari & Pehkonen, Juhani (1999). Nuoret ja europarlamenttivaalit 1999. Helsinki: Nuorisoasiain neuvottelukunta.