Aineiston nimi

Follow-up on Parliamentary Elections 2011

Aineistonumero

FSD2630

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2630

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Moring, Tom (University of Helsinki. Swedish School of Social Science)
• TNS Gallup Finland

Muut tekijät

• Election Study Consortium

Sisällön kuvaus

The survey studied voting behaviour in the 2011 parliamentary elections in Finland. The data were collected just after the elections.

First, a number of questions charted the respondents' use of and attitude towards candidate selectors / voting advice applications. The respondents were also asked whether they had followed election reporting, campaigning and advertising in different media (including the social media such as Facebook). Views were probed on the election campaigns of different parties. Other questions covered which parties' or candidates' advertisements the respondents had seen on TV and what was their attitude towards political advertising on TV and in newspapers in general.

Voting behaviour was investigated by asking whether the respondents had voted in the parliamentary elections just held, which party they had voted for and whether the candidate or the party had been more important in the choice. Information sources used for the voting choice were studied. Those who had voted were asked why they voted, which factors and issues had influenced their candidate choice and at which stage they had made their final choice. Opinions were charted on the media reporting on election campaign and election issues. One question focused on the performance of party leaders during the campaign.

Those who had abstained from voting were asked why they had not voted, which party they had voted for in the 2008 municipal elections and in the 2007 parliamentary elections and which party/group they would vote for if they were obliged to vote.

Further questions covered self-placement on different axes (left - right, unreligious - religious, liberal - conservative etc), newspaper reading habits and opinions on how well newspapers had succeeded in their reporting of election issues (reliability of the news, understandability, background information and analysis etc).

Views were probed on acceptable measures to sustain public sector economy. Measures mentioned included, for instance, raising taxes or retirement age or selling public sector property. The respondents were also asked which parties should be in the coalition government and which parties had the right to stay out of it, taking the election outcome into account, and which party they thought would act most responsibly in the government. Further questions charted the visibility, acceptability and impact of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) campaign to increase the turnout of SAK members. The respondents were asked to what extent they agreed with a number of statements relating to democracy, political decision-making, the EU etc.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, basic and vocational education, economic activity and occupational status, annual gross income, municipality and major region of residence (NUTS2), self-perceived social class, degree of urbanity and membership in a federation of trade unions.

Asiasanat

advertising; election campaigns; election data; mass media; newspaper press; parliamentary elections; political allegiance; political parties; social media; voting advice applications; voting behaviour

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Elections (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

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

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

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

Kerääjät

• TNS Gallup Finland

Tuottajat

• TNS Gallup Finland

Ajallinen kattavuus

2011

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2011-04-18 – 2011-04-24

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

People aged 18 - 70 living in Finland (poislukien the Åland Islands)

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Probability: Multistage

The data were collected using the computerized GallupChannel data collection system, which involves installing Internet terminals or Gallup Internet browsers in the homes of the respondents. The fixed sample used with the GallupChannel is a result of multistage stratified sampling and is representative of the target population.

Keruumenetelmä

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

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

302 muuttujaa ja 1253 havaintoa.

Datan versio

2.0

Painokertoimet

There are two weight variables in the data. Puoluepaino A (bv12a) matches the sample to the actual vote share of political parties in the 2011 parliamentary elections. The variable identifying which party's candidate the respondent had voted for was used to form the weight. Puoluepaino B (bv12b) matches the sample in the same way as Puoluepaino A but in addition matches the proportion of people who voted and who did not to the proportion of voters and non-voters in the actual election.

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

Moring, Tom (University of Helsinki) & TNS Gallup Finland: Follow-up on Parliamentary Elections 2011 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-20). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2630

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

Moring, Tom & Mykkänen, Juri (2012). Vaalikampanjat ja viestinnällistyminen. Teoksessa: Muutosvaalit 2011 (toim. Borg, Sami), 62-78. Helsinki: Oikeusministeriö. Oikeusministeriön julkaisu; OMSO 16/2012. Helsinki: Edita. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-259-172-2.

Demokratiaindikaattorit 2013. Toim. Borg, Sami. Helsinki: Oikeusministeriö. Selvityksiä ja ohjeita 52/2013. URN:ISBN:978-952-259-334-4

Lamppula, Antti (2015). Vaaliennusteesta internetäänestykseen? Tutkimus tietotekniikan käytöstä ja sen kehittämismahdollisuuksista yleisten vaalien toimittamisessa Suomessa. Tampere: Tampereen yliopiston informaatiotieteiden yksikkö. Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis: 1590. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-44-9913-5

Dalton, Russell J. (2021). Modeling Ideological Polarization in Democratic Party Systems. Electoral Studies, Volume 72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102346