Aineiston nimi

Decision-Making within the Centre Party of Finland 2001

Aineistonumero

FSD2376

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2376

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Jutila, Karina

Sisällön kuvaus

The aim of the study was to find out how the members and professional politicians of the Centre Party of Finland define the party's internal decision-making and the roles of various actors in it.

The respondents were asked how often they participated in party meetings and organizational activities, which factors they believed had influenced the choice of the party leader, and how the respondents communicated with various bodies within the party. The respondents listed the most important tasks of the members of the Centre Party, and they gave their opinions on how much influence they believed the party members had in internal decisions. Sources of information about different party activities were queried, as well as the amount of influence various bodies had on the internal decision-making of the Centre Party.

The respondents assessed the activities of the party on the regional and national level, for instance in terms of openness, democracy, topic orientation, and reformism. They were also presented with a set of attitudinal statements on democracy and the exercise of power within the Centre Party. In addition, the respondents' views were probed on the so-called labour market reform programme of the party in the 1999 Parliamentary elections and on the party's favourable stance on the EU membership issue adopted in the 1994 party meeting. Finally, the respondents were asked to give their opinions on various issues, such as nuclear power, supporting small business, registration of same-sex relationships, accepting refugees, and securing services in rural areas.

Background variables included the respondent's age, gender, education, marital status, size of municipality of residence, current and previous duties within the party, and the parents' political party preference.

Asiasanat

decision making; democracy; dissemination of information; organizations; political leaders; political parties; politics; trust; voting

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Government, political systems and organisations (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Political ideology (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

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

Kerääjät

• Jutila, Karina

Ajallinen kattavuus

2001

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2001-10 – 2001-11

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Members of the Centre Party of Finland, district committee members and chairpersons, and district executive directors.

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Probability: Systematic random

Total study of the district committee members and chairpersons and the district executive directors of the Centre Party of Finland (463 persons). In addition, systematic sampling from the district organizations' member registers (1,048 persons). The sample was divided by districts according to the number of members in each district. For each district, the 70th name in the register was chosen as the starting point and the systematic regular intervals after the starting point were determined by the number of members in the district.

Keruumenetelmä

Face-to-face interview

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Vastausprosentti

District committee members and chairpersons and district executive directors 70. Party members 31.

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineistopaketti voi sisältää samoja tiedostoja eri kielisinä.

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

Tietoarkisto kääntää kvantitatiivisia datatiedostoja englanniksi. Lisätietoja käännöspyynnön jättämisestä.

Datan versio

2.0

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

To prevent identification of respondents, the highest values in the 'number of children' variable (bv4) were categorised into a single category (5 and over).

The dataset does not include the responses to the open-ended questions K3b, K8b, K11, K13 and K20 nor the responses given in the comment section.

Painokertoimet

There are no weight variables in the data.

Viittausvaatimus

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.

Malliviittaus

Jutila, Karina: Decision-Making within the Centre Party of Finland 2001 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2019-01-18). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2376

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

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Varaumat

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

Julkaisut aineistosta

Jutila, Karina (2003): Yksillä säännöillä, kaksilla korteilla? Empiirinen tutkimus Suomen Keskustan sisäisestä päätöksenteosta. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis; 269. urn:isbn:951-44-5808-7