Citizens' Opinion (in Finnish) is a survey panel focusing on society and politics. Members of the panel participate in different online surveys a few times each year. 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 2019, and the panel currently has thousands of participants. The Citizens' Opinion panel offers possibilities to track developments in public opinion over time and makes it possible to react swiftly to current events and launch quick surveys that examine public opinion with a representative sample.
The data consists of the MTME (MultiTrait MultiError) experiment design, which was included in the fifth and sixth waves of the Citizens' Opinion panel 2023 parliamentary election study. The Citizens' Opinion panel is part of The Finnish Research Infrastructure for Public Opinion (FIRIPO).
The data includes only the answers of those who answered both waves in the correct order, answered all relevant questions and had at least one day between their answers to the different waves. Respondents were asked ten statements related to political issues in Finland. The experimental design is based on varying the number and direction of the scale points that respondents can choose from when answering these statements. Respondents answered using either five or eleven scale points, and the scale direction was either from good to bad proposal or bad to good proposal. Respondents answered two different question formats in the two waves, giving respondents two different versions of the ten statements in two rounds. These variations resulted in four possible forms for the ten statements, which resulted in six different combinations or pairs for the questionnaires. More details on the questionnaire design can be found in the Background information document (bgF3922_eng.pdf).
Background variables included gender, age group, level of education, whether they have a university degree or not and interest in politics.
The panel consisted of over 5,000 respondents, 80% of whom were recruited using various probability sampling methods. The remaining respondents were recruited using non-probability sampling.