FSD1040 Presidential Elections 2000, First Round
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Abstract
The survey focused on the 2000 presidential elections in Finland. The respondents were asked whether they had voted in the first round of the presidential elections in the year 2000 and for which candidate they had voted. They were also asked when they had made their voting decision and how the media, advertising, close friends, candidate selectors on the Internet, or the candidate's campaign websites affected their voting decision. The respondents were asked whether they had voted in the first round of the 2000 presidential elections, and for which candidate they had voted. In addition, the respondents were presented with a list of various things and asked to say which of them affected their choice of candidate in the first round of the elections. Those who had not voted in the first round were asked the reason for abstaining. All respondents were asked about their opinion of the election campaign and advertising and whether they were going to vote in the second round of the elections, and for whom. The respondents were presented with statements about voting and the personality of the president, and they were asked to express their opinion about them. Finally, the respondents were asked which party they would vote for in parliamentary elections if the elections were held at that time, which party they had voted for in the previous parliamentary elections, and for which candidate they had voted in the previous presidential elections.
Background variables included the respondent's gender, mother tongue, age, marital status, composition and income of the household, education, occupation, information on work, working hours, trade union membership, ownership of apartment, voting in elections, position on a left-right scale, social class, and dwelling place. The background variables have been updated in August 1999. The data also include a case id variable hl, which can be used to append this data to FSD1041.
Keywords
advertising; elections; general elections; political support; presidential candidates; voting
Topic Classification
political studies (FSD Topics Classification)
elections; mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion (CESSDA Topics Classification)
Restrictions
The variables identifying respondent postal code and municipality have been removed from the data.
Access to the data granted for scientific and teaching purposes; FSD's access application procedure.
Data Collector
Gallup Finland
Data Producer
Gallup Finland
Collection Date
2000
Nation
Finland
Geographical Coverage
Finland
Analysis Unit
Person
Universe
People aged 15 or over living in Finland (excluding the Åland Islands)
Sampling Procedure
Three-stage stratified sample. The survey had 1,394 respondents of whom 1,229 also responded to the survey FSD1041, collected after the second round of the elections.
Collection Mode
Telepanel survey (Gallup Channel)
Research Instrument
Structured questionnaire
Time Method
Panel study
Collection Size
Data: SPSS portable file. Data available also in other file formats.
Number of cases and variables
1394 cases and 113 variables
Data version
3.1 (1.8.2006)
Other Material
See downloadable files at the top of the page
Information on the Gallup Channel research system
Questionnaire: pdf file in Finnish (does not contain background variables)
Related Studies
FSD1041 Presidential Elections 2000, Second Round
Citation Requirement
The source must be acknowledged in any publication based wholly or in part on the data.
Bibliographical Citation
Presidential Elections 2000, First Round [computer file]. FSD1040, version 3.1 (2006-08-01). Espoo : Gallup Finland [data collection]. Tampere : Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor], 2006.
Depositing Requirements
The archive must be informed of all publications where the data have been used.
Disclaimer
The depositor and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of the data.
Related Publications
Carlson, Tom (2002). Cirkusen som icke är: personfixering i ett finländskt väljarperspektiv. I: Den personliga politiken (red. Håkan Hvitfelt & Lauri Karvonen), 56-67. Sundsvall: Mitthögskolan. Demokratiinstitutet: Mitt i opinionen; 6.
Djupsund, Göran & Carlson, Tom (2003). Catching the 'Wired Voters'? Campaigning on the Internet. Nordicom-Information 25(1-2), 39-50.
Hellsten, Villiina & Holli, Anne Maria & Wass, Hanna (2007). Sukupuolenmukainen äänestäminen vuoden 2006 presidentinvaaleissa. Teoksessa: Presidentinvaalit 2006 (toim. Isotalus, Pekka & Borg, Sami), 178-206. Helsinki: WSOY.
