DDI description: Politician Panel Survey, February 2022 DDI-kuvailu: Päättäjäpaneeli-kysely, helmikuu 2022 3883 Finnish Social Science Data Archive Finnish Social Science Data Archive Finnish Social Science Data Archive 2.0.0 Politician Panel Survey, February 2022 [metadata]. Metadata version 2.0.0 (2026-05-12). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [producer and distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3883; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3883 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. Politician Panel Survey, February 2022 Päättäjäpaneeli-kysely, helmikuu 2022 3883 urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3883 10.60686/t-fsd3883 Finnish Research Infrastructure for Public Opinion (FIRIPO) Rapeli, Lauri 0000-0003-0248-2763 In accordance with the agreement between FSD and the depositor. 345714 Finnish Social Science Data Archive FIRIPO Politician panel

The politician panel consists of elected politicians, mainly from local level. Members of the panel participate in different online surveys a few times a year. The purpose of the panel is to track opinions among policy-makers. The panel is administered by Åbo Akademi University's Social Science Research Institute and is part of the Finnish Research Infrastructure for Public Opinion (FIRIPO) funded by the Academy of Finland. The recruiting of members for the panel began in 2020, and the panel currently has over thousand participants. Information for recruiting new respondents is available from the Information and Result Service provided by the Ministry of Justice. The politician panel offers new tools for examining mechanisms underlying democratic decision-making.

2.0 Finnish Research Infrastructure for Public Opinion (FIRIPO) & Rapeli, Lauri (Åbo Akademi University): Politician Panel Survey, February 2022 [dataset]. Data version 2.0 (2026-05-12). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3883; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3883 politics social systems democracy attitudes political attitudes political parties local government local government policy political influence neutrality Social sciences Government, political systems and organisations Political behaviour and attitudes

The survey gathers the opinions of municipal councilors on municipal policy and on various types of councils. The respondents are municipal councilors. The data was collected as part of the Politician Panel, which is part of The Finnish Research Infrastructure for Public Opinion (FIRIPO).

First, respondents were asked about various statements related to neutrality and the extent to which they perceive the handling of certain cases to be neutral in their municipality. This was followed by a question about the perception that some politicians hold political positions at different political levels. This was followed by statements about the councils in the municipalities, relating to issues such as the influence of the councils, the information available from the councils and the extent to which the expertise of the different councils is used in the municipality.

Background variables include party membership, electoral district, gender, mother tongue, age and educational level.

Finland Finland Individual Individual Finnish municipal councilors Quantitative Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section Longitudinal.TrendRepeatedCrossSection Finnish Research Infrastructure for Public Opinion (FIRIPO) Non-probability: Purposive Nonprobability.Purposive

Around 95% of the Finnish municipal councilors were invited to join the panel, which totaled 8999 at the time of the invitation in spring 2020. After the 2021 municipal elections, a new recruitment process was carried out to remove 338 people from the panel who had lost their councilor place, and an invitation was sent by email to 3888 new councilors to register for the panel. Of the new councilors, 436 people enrolled to the panel. An invitation to participate in the survey was sent by email to the people on the panel.

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 (B) available for research, teaching and study. The dataset is (D) available only by permission from the data depositor/creator. 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. The researcher has anonymised the data by replacing the variable indicating the municipality of residence with a variable indicating the electoral district to prevent identification of respondents. The researcher has also removed open-ended variables from the data. Helsinki and Uusimaa electoral districts have been combined at FSD for identification reasons. In addition, for identification reasons, the variables regarding the respondent's native language and age have been recoded at FSD.