DDI description: Parliamentary Elections 2015: Candidate Responses to Helsingin Sanomat Candidate Selector DDI-kuvailu: Eduskuntavaalit 2015: ehdokkaiden vastaukset Helsingin Sanomien vaalikoneeseen 3024 Finnish Social Science Data Archive Finnish Social Science Data Archive Finnish Social Science Data Archive 1.0.0 Parliamentary Elections 2015: Candidate Responses to Helsingin Sanomat Candidate Selector [metadata]. Metadata version 1.0.0 (2015-11-02). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [producer and distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3024; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3024 FSD:n aineistokuvailut (FSD metadata records), joiden tekijä on Suomen yhteiskuntatieteellinen tietoarkisto (Finnish Social Science Data Archive), on lisensoitu Creative Commons 1.0 Yleismaailmallinen (CC0 1.0) -lisenssillä. FSD:n aineistokuvailut (FSD metadata records) by Suomen yhteiskuntatieteellinen tietoarkisto (Finnish Social Science Data Archive) are licensed under a Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) license. FSD:n aineistokuvailut (FSD metadata records) av Finlands samhällsvetenskapliga dataarkiv (Finnish Social Science Data Archive) är licensierade under en Creative Commons 1.0 Universiell (CC0 1.0) licens. Parliamentary Elections 2015: Candidate Responses to Helsingin Sanomat Candidate Selector Eduskuntavaalit 2015: ehdokkaiden vastaukset Helsingin Sanomien vaalikoneeseen 3024 urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3024 10.60686/t-fsd3024 Helsingin Sanomat Helsingin Sanomat In accordance with the agreement between FSD and the depositor. Finnish Social Science Data Archive Individual datasets

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 1.0 Helsingin Sanomat: Parliamentary Elections 2015: Candidate Responses to Helsingin Sanomat Candidate Selector [dataset]. Data version 1.0 (2015-11-02). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3024; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3024 defence electoral issues energy policy national economy national elections parliamentary candidates politicians politics public services taxation voting advice applications Social sciences Elections

This dataset consists of responses by candidates in the 2015 Finnish parliamentary elections to a voting advice application maintained by the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The candidates were presented with thirty attitudinal statements concerning politics which they evaluated on a five-point likert scale.

The statements concerned, for instance, the role of taxation and social security benefits on balancing public economy, use of nuclear energy and fossil fuels, municipal mergers, applying for NATO membership, Defence Forces funding, and the relationship between environmental protection and economic growth.

Background variables included the candidate's age, gender, education, party, and electoral district.

 Finland Finland Individual Individual Candidates in the 2015 Finnish parliamentary elections Quantitative Cross-section CrossSection Helsingin Sanomat Total universe/Complete enumeration TotalUniverseCompleteEnumeration Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI) SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire.CAWI Structured questionnaire Questionnaire.Structured There are no weight variables in the data. Detailed and specific data description in Finnish and English. The data are checked and processed in detail. If necessary, the data are anonymised. Finnish Social Science Data Archive The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses. 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. Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi. The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data. Snellman, Lilian (2020) Relationship between Women's Descriptive and Substantive Representation from the Perspective of Electoral Candidates and Electoral Promises: The 2015 Finnish Parliamentary Election. Master's Thesis. University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences. Relationship between Women's Descriptive and Substantive Representation from the Perspective of Electoral Candidates and Electoral Promises: The 2015 Finnish Parliamentary Election. Tahvanainen, Roope (2016). Arvot kartalle : poliittiset ristiriitaulottuvuudet ja niiden jakautuminen Suomessa. Itä-Suomen yliopisto. Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja kauppatieteiden tiedekunta / Yhteiskuntatieteiden laitos. Yhteiskuntapolitiikan pro gradu -tutkielma. Arvot kartalle : poliittiset ristiriitaulottuvuudet ja niiden jakautuminen Suomessa Further information (in Finnish): HS publishes voting advice application responses as open data