Aineiston nimi

Members of Municipal Councils and Municipal Boards 2009

Aineistonumero

FSD2925

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2925

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Piipponen, Sirkka-Liisa (Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities)

Sisällön kuvaus

The dataset contains survey and register data regarding the members of municipal councils and municipal boards in 2009. The dataset includes data collected both from municipal secretaries and the election data system of the Ministry of Justice.

The survey data chart the following information on the members of municipal councils and municipal boards: whether the elected official had been a candidate in municipal elections in 2008 and what their political party had been, position in the council or the board, previous experience of municipal positions of responsibility, and employer sector. Further, data on council chairpersons included whether they were chairpersons for the first time or had previous experience.

Register data comprise the following variables: whether the elected official had been an MP or a member of the European Parliament and whether he/she had been selected in the municipal council in the municipal elections, number of votes received in the elections, comparative index assigned in the elections, electoral district, and number of years in the council.

Background variables included, among others, membership of a municipal council or a municipal board, name of the municipality, gender, year of birth, mother tongue, and nationality.

Asiasanat

councillors; elected officials; local government; local government elections; public administration

Tieteenala/Aihealue

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

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (A) openly available for all users without registration (CC BY 4.0).

Kerääjät

• Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities

Ajallinen kattavuus

2009

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2009-01-13 – 2010-02

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Members of Finnish municipal councils and municipal boards (poislukien the Åland Islands)

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Lähdeaineistot

Election data system of the Ministry of Justice

Otantamenetelmä

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Electronic survey was sent to be filled in by municipal secretaries in all Finnish municipalities. The survey data was combined with data from the election data system of the Ministry of Justice. The dataset comprises data about 10,412 members of municipal councils and 3,026 members of municipal boards.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: E-mail

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

1.0

Katso myös

FSD3593 Members of Municipal Councils and Municipal Boards 2017

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

Variables containing information on the respondents' names, titles/occupations, dates of birth, and candidate numbers 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

Piipponen, Sirkka-Liisa (Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities): Members of Municipal Councils and Municipal Boards 2009 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2016-05-30). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2925

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

Kuntademokratian ja -johtamisen tila valtuustokaudella 2009-2012 (2013). Toim. Piipponen, Sirkka-Liisa & Pekola-Sjöblom, Marianne. Helsinki: Suomen Kuntaliitto. Acta; 252.

Pikkala, Sari (2011). Parasta naisille? Kuntaliitokset ja naisten edustus kuntien johdossa. Helsinki: Kuntaliitto. Paras-ARTTU-ohjelman tutkimuksia no 7.

Tietoa Manner-Suomen kuntien hallituksista ja kuntajohtajista 2009-2012 (2011) [verkkodokumentti] Helsinki: Kuntaliitto. http://shop.kunnat.net/product_details.php?p=2621 [viitattu 1.6.2016].

Meriläinen, Jaakko and Tukiainen, Janne, Primary Effect in Open-List Election. VATT Institute for Economic Research Working Papers No. 79.

Meriläinen, Jaakko & Tukiainen, Janne (2021) The Advantage of Incumbents in Coalitional Bargaining. Aboa Centre for Economics. Discussion paper No. 137. Turku.