Study title

Parliamentary Elections 2019: Responses to Union of Freethinkers of Finland Candidate Selector

Dataset ID Number

FSD3366

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3366
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3366

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Union of Freethinkers of Finland

Abstract

This dataset contains responses to questions in the voting advice application of the Union of Freethinkers of Finland for the Finnish parliamentary elections 2019 by candidates as well as users of the application. Questions concerned, for instance, whether blasphemy should remain prohibited in the Finnish Criminal Code, whether circumcision of boys should be legal or illegal, whether the church should have the right to collect tax, whose responsibility burials and maintenance of cemeteries should be, how religion should be incorporated into primary school curricula, and whether employers should have the right to prohibit the use of certain items of clothing, such as a headscarf which covers the head and hair (hijab), at work.

Background variables for parliamentary candidates included name, party, electoral district and web page. Background variables for users of the voting advice application included party filter set by the user, electoral district, and time and date of responding.

Keywords

church and state; elections; parliamentary candidates; parliamentary elections; politicians; religion; religious instruction; voting

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Humanities (Fields of Science Classification)
• Elections (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Religion and values (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Responses to Union of Freethinkers Candidate Selector for Finnish Parliamentary Elections

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Union of Freethinkers of Finland

Time Period Covered

2019

Collection Dates

• 2018-12-08 – 2019-04-02
• 2019-02-03 – 2019-04-14

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Candidates in the 2019 Finnish parliamentary elections and users of the voting advice application of the Union of Freethinkers of Finland

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

Non-probability: Availability

Of the total of 2,468 candidates in the 2019 parliamentary elections, 763 provided their responses for the voting advice application of the Union of Freethinkers of Finland. The voting advice application was available to candidates between 8 December 2018 and 2 April 2019. The application was available to voters from 3 February 2019 onwards, and responses submitted before the polling stations closed were included in the dataset. The voting advice application was used over 8,000 times, but some IP addresses appear multiple times in usage statistics, which means that the number of individual users is lower. Background variable bv8b includes an id given to each individual IP address which can be used to determine responses made from the same IP address.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

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

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Data Version

1.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

Variable bv1 can be used to distinguish whether the respondent was a candidate or a user of the voting advice application. The letter a in background variable names refers to the candidates' background information and the letter b to voters' background information.

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

Union of Freethinkers of Finland: Parliamentary Elections 2019: Responses to Union of Freethinkers of Finland Candidate Selector [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2020-09-22). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3366

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.

Other Material

See downloadable files at the top of the page.

More information (in Finnish) about the voting advice application of the Union of Freethinkers of Finland

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