Norwegian Election Study, 1965 (ICPSR 7256)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Henry Valen

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07256.v1

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Summary

This study, conducted both before and after the 1965 election in Norway, focused on the electorate's political attitudes and perceptions of the Norwegian political parties, leaders, and campaign activities. The pre-election interviews probed the respondents' opinions on pressing tasks for the government, religious instruction in schools, social pensions, tax laws, the Norwegian language question, district development, and NATO membership. In addition, the respondents' perceptions of party positions on each of these issues were tapped. Information was also obtained on the respondents' political party affiliations, past voting patterns, and party preferences. The post-election interviews examined respondents' satisfaction with the election results, their use of mass media as a source of information on politics and the election, the extent to which respondents discussed politics with their family and friends, distribution of party campaign literature, visits by party workers in the respondents' communes, and the respondents' attention to and involvement in the election campaign. Demographic data cover age, sex, marital status, educational level, annual income, occupation, union affiliation, religious participation, and hobbies. The study also includes aggregate data on the respondent's commune and primary sampling unit, such as population statistics, vocational composition, boundary changes, use of the new Norwegian language, average income, and election information.

Citation

Valen, Henry. Norwegian Election Study, 1965. [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07256.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1965

Data Collection Notes

  1. The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

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Sample

Stratified probability sample. The country was divided into sampling areas classified acording to region, density of population, and occupational composition. Primary sampling units (PSU) were drawn by probability methods from the universe of sampling areas. From each PSU, respondents were selected by probability methods from the public electoral registers, in a number proportional to the size of the substratum to which the PSU belonged.

Universe

Voting-age population of Norway listed in the electoral registers.

Data Source

personal interviews and public records

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Original Release Date

1984-06-19

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Valen, Henry. NORWEGIAN ELECTION STUDY, 1965. Conducted by Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1976. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07256.v1

1984-06-19 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Standardized missing values.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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