Study title

European Parliamentary Elections 2014: Candidate Responses to YLE Candidate Selector

Dataset ID Number

FSD2992

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2992
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2992

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Ervasti, Pekka (Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE). Politics)

Abstract

This dataset consists of responses to the voting advice application of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) by Finnish candidates in the 2014 European Parliament election.

The candidates' opinions were charted with 30 attitudinal statements which they evaluated on a likert scale. The statements concerned, for instance, attitude toward EU, workers immigrating from other EU countries, the influence of business life in the EU, illegal immigration, free movement, limitations and costs to businesses caused by the EU, and costs of EU membership.

Background variables included name, party, age, occupation, education, employer, campaign budget, and the primary source of campaign funding.

Keywords

European Parliament; European Parliament candidates; European Parliament elections; elections; parliamentary candidates; political attitudes; voting advice applications

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Elections (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Finnish Broadcasting Company

Data Producers

• Finnish Broadcasting Company

Time Period Covered

2014

Collection Dates

2014-04 – 2014-05

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Finland's candidates in the 2014 European Parliament Election

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

All Finnish candidates in the 2014 European Parliament Election had a possibility to provide their responses for the voting advice application.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

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

FSD translates quantitative data into English on request, free of charge. More information on ordering data translation.

Data Version

2.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

For data security reasons, open-ended responses providing rationale for the candidates' choices were 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

Ervasti, Pekka (Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE)): European Parliamentary Elections 2014: Candidate Responses to YLE Candidate Selector [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-08-16). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2992

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.

FSD has not been informed of any publications related to the data.