Study title

Voting and Party Choice in Parliamentary Elections 2007

Dataset ID Number

FSD2275

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2275

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE)

Abstract

The respondents were first asked whether they had already voted in advance in the 2007 Parliamentary elections. If they had, they were asked which party's candidate they had voted for; if they had not voted yet, they were asked which party's candidate they would vote for at the moment. Further questions covered how certain the respondents were about their party choice, whether they were going to vote in these elections, and which party's candidate they had voted for in the last Parliamentary elections. The respondents were presented with a set of statements related to various factors that had affected their party choice in these elections. Finally, they were asked which matters the most in voting at the moment, the last or the coming term.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, area of residence, occupational status, and province of residence.

Keywords

parliamentary candidates; parliamentary elections; political attitudes; political parties; voting; voting in advance

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Taloustutkimus

Data Producers

• YLE News

Time Period Covered

2007

Collection Dates

2007-03-13 – 2007-03-15

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Finnish population aged 18 and over (excluding the Åland Islands)

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Simple random

Random sampling from the population register.

Collection Mode

Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

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Number of Cases and Variables

27 variables and 1507 cases.

Data Version

2.0

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

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Bibliographical Citation

Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE): Voting and Party Choice in Parliamentary Elections 2007 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-12). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2275

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