Aineiston nimi

Citizen Deliberation on COVID-19 Restrictions and Recommendations 2021

Aineistonumero

FSD3799

Pysyvät tunnisteet

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3799
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3799

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Kulha, Katariina (University of Turku)
• Leino, Mikko (University of Turku)
• Setälä, Maija (University of Turku)
• Ylisalo, Juha (University of Turku)

Sisällön kuvaus

The data consists of three different surveys to explore the views of Finns on the acceptability of the government's COVID-19 actions before and after the expert hearing and citizen deliberation. The aim of the survey was to find out how the expert hearing and deliberative citizen discussion affect citizens' perceptions of the acceptability of the government's COVID-19 actions. The citizen deliberation is part of the research project "Preparing for the next waves: towards cooperative and legitimate pandemic governance in Europe" under the PALO project.

At the beginning of the survey, respondents were asked if they would be willing to participate in a two-day citizen deliberation. The next step was to ask respondents about their views on the restrictions on the fight against COVID-19 and the various recommendations and regulations issued by the authorities. Respondents were also asked how closely they had followed the news about the COVID-19 in various media. They were also asked about their confidence in the various sources of information on the COVID-19 situation. Respondents were then asked about their feelings on the COVID-19 situation and their factual knowledge of the COVID-19 situation. At the end of the first questionnaire, the respondents were asked for background information, such as their political party preference.

The participants who went on to the citizen deliberation were randomly divided in advance into two different groups, with group 1 hearing experts in human rights and social sciences on the first day and experts in health and public health on the second day, while group 2 heard experts in the opposite order. This experimental set-up was used to investigate whether the participants' opinions on COVID-19 actions would be influenced by the field of expertise and the order in which the experts were heard. After each day, the participants answered a questionnaire, which asked some of the same questions as the first questionnaire. The questionnaires also asked, for example, how much more the respondents felt they knew about the limitations and recommendations on COVID-19 prevention after these discussions. Respondents were also asked to rate the effectiveness of the small group discussions.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, type of residence, highest level of education, economic activity, household income, household size, number of children and political party preference. For those who participated in the citizen deliberation, the additional background variables are year of birth and NUTS3 region of residence.

Asiasanat

COVID-19; bacterial and virus diseases; dissemination of information; evaluation; government; health advice; human rights; public health; regulations; social attitudes

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Public health (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Government, political systems and organisations (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

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

Kerääjät

• Kulha, Katariina (University of Turku)
• Sihvo, Sami (University of Turku)

Rahoittajat

• Academy of Finland (335690)

Ajallinen kattavuus

2021

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2021-02-01 – 2021-03-14

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

People aged 18-80 residing in Finland

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Probability: Simple random

Participants were recruited from a random sample of 6,000 citizens aged 18-80 years old, who were invited by post to take part in the survey and the citizen deliberation. Of those invited, 261 responded to the questionnaire and 163 indicated their willingness to participate in the citizen deliberation. Of those who finally participated, 74 took part in the citizen deliberation, of which 70 stayed for the whole two-day deliberation. The citizen deliberations were conducted using the Zoom app. Participants in the citizen deliberation were diverse and fairly representative of the population in terms of age, gender and place of residence. The main deviation from representativeness was that the highly educated were strongly over-represented. In addition to the recruitment questionnaire, participants completed a questionnaire after both days of discussion.

Participants completed three survey forms using the Redcap tool. The questionnaires were completed on their own mobile device or computer. A link to the recruitment questionnaire was sent to the randomly selected participants by post. Links to the questionnaires for the discussion days were sent to participants by email.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Online focus group

Experiment

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

FSD3800 Citizen Deliberation on COVID-19 Restrictions and Recommendations: Control Survey 2021

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

Highly educated people are strongly over-represented in the data. More than 50% of participants had a higher education degree, which is significantly higher than for the population as a whole.

To prevent identification of respondents, the variables concerning the number of persons in the household and the number of children living at home (rs_v20a, rs_v20b ja rs_v20c) have been TOP-coded in FSD. In addition, the variables containing open-ended responses to the response option 'Other, please specify” were removed from the data.

The data do not include a variable related to question (pt2_v36b).

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

Kulha, Katariina (University of Turku) & Leino, Mikko (University of Turku) & Setälä, Maija (University of Turku) & Ylisalo, Juha (University of Turku): Citizen Deliberation on COVID-19 Restrictions and Recommendations 2021 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2024-07-19). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3799

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

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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

Leino, Mikko; Kulha, Katariina; Setälä, Maija & Ylisalo, Juha (2022): Expert hearings in mini-publics: How does the field of expertise influence deliberation and its outcomes? Policy Sciences, 55, 429-450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-022-09465-3.

Leino, Mikko; Kulha, Katariina; Setälä, Maija & Ylisalo, Juha (2021): Puntaroiva kansalaiskeskustelu koronatoimien hyväksyttävyydestä. Kansalaiskeskustelun loppuraportti. Turun yliopisto. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-29-8496-1.