Study title

Parliamentary Elections 2007: Responses to Union of Freethinkers of Finland Candidate Selector

Dataset ID Number

FSD2296

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2296

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Union of Freethinkers of Finland

Other Identification/Acknowledgements

• Mäntysalo, Jori (Union of Freethinkers of Finland)

Abstract

The data consist of responses given by parliamentary candidates and candidate selector users to questions of the Union of Freethinkers of Finland candidate selector / voting advice application.

The candidate selector questions included the national churches' special status under public law, religious denominations' right to officiate at weddings, publication of caricatures that criticise religion, allowing the circumcision of boys, status of religion in comprehensive school, and Christian broadcasts based on Finland's Public Broadcaster Act.

Background variables for the election candidates included first and last name, party, constituency, and Internet pages. Background variables for the candidate selector users include selected party, constituency, and date of use. The user responses were individualised according to IP addresses.

Keywords

attitudes; beliefs; candidate selectors; church and state; criticism of religion; freedom of thought; parliamentary candidates; parliamentary elections; politicians; religion policy; voting; voting advice applications

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Humanities (Fields of Science Classification)
• Elections (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Religion and values (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Responses to Union of Freethinkers Candidate Selector for Finnish Parliamentary Elections

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Union of Freethinkers of Finland

Time Period Covered

2007

Collection Dates

2006-12-02 – 2007-03-18

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Candidates in the 2007 parliamentary elections and users of the Union of Freethinkers of Finland candidate selector

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Altogether 655 parliamentary candidates (32.8% of all the candidates) responded to the candidate selector. 25 (13%) of the elected candidates responded. Altogether, the candidate selector was used almost 20,000 times.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

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Data Version

2.0

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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.

Bibliographical Citation

Union of Freethinkers of Finland: Parliamentary Elections 2007: Responses to Union of Freethinkers of Finland Candidate Selector [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-12). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2296

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Materials

Vapaa-ajattelijain Liitto Ry (2008). Toimintakertomus 2007. Luettavissa osoitteessa http://www.vapaa-ajattelijat.fi/liitto/toimintakertomus/2007 [viitattu 9.4.2009].

FSD has not been informed of any publications related to the data.