Study title

Presidential Elections 2000, First Round

Dataset ID Number

FSD1040

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1040
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd1040

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Gallup Finland

Abstract

The survey focused on the 2000 presidential elections in Finland. The respondents were asked whether they had voted in the first round of the presidential elections in the year 2000 and for which candidate they had voted. They were also asked when they had made their voting decision and how the media, advertising, close friends, candidate selectors / voting advice applications on the Internet, or the candidate's campaign websites affected their voting decision. In addition, the respondents were presented with a list of various things and asked to say which of them affected their choice of candidate in the first round of the elections. Those who had not voted in the first round were asked the reason for abstaining. All respondents were asked about their opinion of the election campaign and advertising and whether they were going to vote in the second round of the elections, and for whom. The respondents were presented with statements about voting and the personality of the president, and they were asked to express their opinion about them. Finally, the respondents were asked which party they would vote for in parliamentary elections if the elections were held at that time, which party they had voted for in the previous parliamentary elections, and for which candidate they had voted in the previous presidential elections.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, mother tongue, age, marital status, composition and income of the household, education, occupation, information on work, working hours, trade union membership, ownership of apartment, voting in elections, position on a left-right scale, social class, and dwelling place. The background variables have been updated in August 1999. The data also include a case id variable hl, which can be used to append this data to FSD1041.

Keywords

election campaigns; party identification; political interest; political support; presidential candidates; presidential elections; voting; voting advice applications; voting behaviour; voting intention

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Elections (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Gallup Finland

Data Producers

• Gallup Finland

Time Period Covered

2000

Collection Dates

2000

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

People aged 15 or over living in Finland (excluding the Åland Islands)

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Multistage

Three-stage stratified sample. The survey had 1,394 respondents of whom 1,229 also responded to the survey FSD1041, collected after the second round of the elections.

Collection Mode

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

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

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The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: English and Finnish.

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Number of Cases and Variables

113 variables and 1394 cases.

Data Version

3.1

Related Datasets

FSD1041 Presidential Elections 2000, Second Round

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The variables identifying respondent postal code and municipality have been removed from the data.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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.

Bibliographical Citation

Gallup Finland: Presidential Elections 2000, First Round [dataset]. Version 3.1 (2006-08-01). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1040

Deposit Requirement

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

Disclaimer

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

Other Material

See downloadable files at the top of the page.

Information on the Gallup Channel research system

Related Publications

Djupsund, Göran & Carlson, Tom (2003). Catching the 'Wired Voters'? Campaigning on the Internet. Nordicom-Information 25(1-2), 39-50.

Carlson, Tom (2002). Cirkusen som icke är: personfixering i ett finländskt väljarperspektiv. I: Den personliga politiken (red. Håkan Hvitfelt & Lauri Karvonen), 56-67. Sundsvall: Mitthögskolan. Demokratiinstitutet: Mitt i opinionen; 6.

Carlson, Tom & Strandberg, Kim (2005). The 2004 European parliament Election on the Web. Finnish Actor Strategies and Voter Responses. Information Polity 10(3 & 4), 189-204.

Carlson, Tom & Strandberg, Kim (2007). The European Election on the Web in a Candidate-Centered system. The Case of Finland in The Internet and National Elections. A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning (Eds. Kluver, R. & Foot, K. & Schneider, S. & Jankowski, N.). London & New York: Routledge.

Carlson, Tom & Strandberg, Kim (2008). Riding the Web 2.0 Wave. Candidates on YouTube in the 2007 Finnish National Elections. Journal of Information Technology and Politics 5(2).

Carlson, Tom & Strandberg, Kim (2008). Plus ça change, plus ça reste le même? The evolution of Finnish Web campaigning 1996-2004. in Communicating Politics. Political Communication in the Nordic Countries (Eds. Strömbäck, Jesper & Ostern, Mark & Aalberg, Toril). Göteborg: Nordicom.

Carlson, Tom & Strandberg, Kim (2012). The Rise of Web Campaigning in Finland. in iPolitics. Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era (Eds. Ramos, J. & Davies, R.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Borg, Sami (2018). Suurten ikäluokkien poliittinen kiinnittyminen ja äänestysvalinnat 1970-luvulta nykypäivään. Teoksessa: Valta ja politiikka. Juhlakirja Ilkka Ruostetsaarelle hänen 60-vuotispäivänään (toim. Kestilä- Kekkonen, Elina & Raunio, Tapio), 150-171. Tampere: Vastapaino.