Aineiston nimi

Parliamentary Elections 2003: Candidate Responses to YLE Candidate Selector

Aineistonumero

FSD1295

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1295

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE)

Sisällön kuvaus

Prior to the parliamentary elections, from 18 February to 16 March 2003, YLE (Finland's national public service broadcasting company) had a candidate selection engine on its website. The data consist of answers given by parliamentary candidates to questions presented on the website. Questions covered national defence, Finland's potential NATO membership, adaptation problems of immigrants, judiciary system, health care, youth crime, long-term unemployment, government composition after the elections, gender wage inequality, tax cuts, buying sex, social security benefits, whether Swedish should be an obligatory subject in schools, and whether same-sex couples should have the right to adopt children. The data also contain information on whether the candidate was selected to Parliament or not. Please note: the candidate selection engine also included a number of open-ended questions the answers to which are not be available in English.

Asiasanat

defence and state security policy; electoral issues; employment; immigration policy; national policy; parliamentary candidates; parliamentary elections; social policy; taxation

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Elections (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Kerääjät

• Finnish Broadcasting Company

Tuottajat

• Finnish Broadcasting Company

Ajallinen kattavuus

2003

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2003-01 – 2003-02

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Parliamentary candidates in the 2003 parliamentary elections in Finland

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Lähdeaineistot

Data on whether the candidate was selected to Parliament or not was derived from Statistics Finland election data.

Otantamenetelmä

Total universe/Complete enumeration

The questionnaire was sent to all parliamentary candidates. The questionnaire was based on questions sent by citizens.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineistopaketti voi sisältää samoja tiedostoja eri kielisinä.

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: englanti ja suomi.

Tietoarkisto kääntää kvantitatiivisia datatiedostoja englanniksi. Lisätietoja käännöspyynnön jättämisestä.

Havaintojen ja muuttujien lukumäärä

100 muuttujaa ja 1575 havaintoa.

Datan versio

1.2

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

The data archive coded text variable 'Education' (bv3) into a three-level variable (bv3_1).

The candidates' e-mail and web addresses have been removed from the data.

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

Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE): Parliamentary Elections 2003: Candidate Responses to YLE Candidate Selector [dataset]. Version 1.2 (2006-11-02). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1295

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

Paloheimo, Heikki & Reunanen, Esa & Suhonen, Pertti (2005). Edustuksellisuuden toteutuminen. Teoksessa: Vaalit ja demokratia Suomessa (toim. Heikki Paloheimo), 252-289. Helsinki: WSOY.

Paloheimo, Heikki (2005). Vaalit ja demokratia Suomessa. Helsinki: WSOY.

Kestilä, Elina & Wass, Hanna (2007). Mielipide-edustavuuden toteutuminen työperäisen maahanmuuton kysymyksessä vuoden 2003 eduskuntavaaleissa. Teoksessa: Politiikan representaatio, (toim. Kaakkuriniemi, Tapani & Mykkänen, Tapani), Helsinki: Valtiotieteellinen yhdistys.

Kestilä-Kekkonen, Elina & Wass, Hanna (2008). Representation of the work-related immigration issue: positions of the Finnish electorate and MP candidates in the 2003 parliamentary elections. Ethnopolitics 7(4), 425-444.

Van Camp, K., Lefevere, J., & Walgrave, S. (2014). The Content and Formulation of Statements in Voting Advice Applications: A Comparative Analysis of 26 VAAs. In D. Garzia, & S. Marchall (Eds.), Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates. Voting Advice Applications in Comparative Perspective (11-32). Colchester: ECPR Press.