Study title

Barometer for Swedish-speaking Finns B10/2022

Dataset ID Number

FSD3848

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3848
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3848

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Finnish Research Infrastructure for Public Opinion (FIRIPO)
• Lindell, Marina (Åbo Akademi University. Social Science Research Institute)

Abstract

The survey charted the attitudes and opinions of Swedish-speaking Finns on current social issues. The questionnaire included questions on issues such as environmental protection and climate change, immigration, sexual minorities, income inequality and vaccine criticism. The data was collected as part of the Citizen Panel of Swedish-speaking Finns (Barometern), which is part of The Finnish Research Infrastructure for Public Opinion (FIRIPO).

First, respondents were asked for their opinions on current social and political issues. Respondents were also asked to indicate their willingness to be friends, colleagues or family members with people who have different political opinions and how this makes them feel. Respondents were then asked how they would feel about having people from different backgrounds as neighbors. Finally, respondents were asked how different human characteristics describe certain people and groups of people.

Background variables included the respondent's NUTS3 region of residence, mother tongue, gender, year of birth, age and level of education.

Keywords

LGBTQI+; attitudes; environmental conservation; immigration; minority language users; minority languages; neighbourhoods; political attitudes; social systems; vaccination

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Cultural and national identity (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Barometers for Swedish-speaking Finns

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (D) available only by permission from the data depositor/creator.

Data Collector

• Citizen Panel of Swedish-speaking Finns (Barometern)

Funders

• The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland

Time Period Covered

2022

Collection Dates

2022-10-12 – 2022-10-30

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

People residing in Finland (including Åland) aged 18 and over who have Swedish as their registered mother tongue

Time Method

Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based

Sampling Procedure

Mixed probability and non-probability

The questionnaire was sent to members of the Citizen Panel of Swedish-speaking Finns (Barometern). A total of 2,695 people finally replied to the questionnaire.

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: Swedish.

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Data Version

1.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

To prevent identification of respondents, all open-ended responses and the variables referring to municipalities have been removed from the data at FSD.

Weighting

The data include a weight variable (vikt) that weights the sample to correspond to the target population based on gender, age, education, and region of residence distributions.

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Bibliographical Citation

Finnish Research Infrastructure for Public Opinion (FIRIPO) & Lindell, Marina (Åbo Akademi University): Barometer for Swedish-speaking Finns B10/2022 [dataset]. Data version 1.0 (2024-12-16). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3848; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3848

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