Swiss Voting Study, 1972

Principal Investigator(s): Kerr, Henry; Sidjanski, Dusan; Schmidtchen, Gerhard

Summary:

This study was conducted from February through June 1972, following the 1971 federal election in Switzerland. Questions probed respondents' attitudes toward elections and political parties as well as their political preferences. Other items assessed opinions on contemporary issues such as the organization of referenda, women's right to vote, and the Schwarzenbach initiative (a parliamentary action of conservative extremists, demanding that one-third of Switzerland's foreign workers be forced to leave the country and that aliens compose no more than 10 percent of the population in any canton). Demographic data include age, sex, education, ethnic background, and family background.

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Codebook.pdf (card_image) Codebook.txt (card_image)

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Kerr, Henry, Dusan Sidjanski, and Gerhard Schmidtchen. SWISS VOTING STUDY, 1972. Geneva, Switzerland: Henry Kerr, University of Geneva, Dept. of Political Science [producer], 1974. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1976. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07342.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07342.v1

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Subject Terms: citizen attitudes, foreign workers, national elections, political affiliation, political attitudes, political parties, public opinion, referendum, social conflict, voting behavior, voting rights, womens rights, Switzerland

Geographic Coverage: Global

Time Period:

1972

Date of Collection:

1972-02--1972-06

Universe: Electorate in Switzerland.

Data Types: survey data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) Case 969 is missing cards 3 and 4. (2) The codebook is in French.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-06-19

1973

Booth, Heather . Sampling Error in a Swiss Survey. Thesis, University of Southampton.

1974

Frei, daniel, Kerr, Henry . Wir und die Welt: Strukturen und Hintergrunde Aussenpolitischer Einstellungen: Bericht uber die im Rahmen der Padagogischen Rekrutenprufung 1972 durchgefuhrte Befragung. Bern: Eidgenossische Drucksachen- und Materialzentrale.

1974

Inglehart, Ronald, Sidjanski, Dusan . Dimension gauche-droite chez les dirigeants et electeurs Suisses. Revue Francaise de Science Politique. 24, (5), 994-1025.

1974

Kerr, Henry, Handley, David . Conflits des generations et politique etrangere en Suisse. Annuaire Suisse de Science Politique. 14, 127-145.

1973

Kerr, Henry, Kalton, Graham . Meinungsforschung in der Schweiz, die Problematik der Stichprobe. Konsonanz. 36, 1-19.

1985

Niemi, Richard G., Powell, G. Bingham, Jr., Stanley, Harold W., Evans, C. Lawrence . Testing the Converse partisanship model with new electorates. Comparative Political Studies. 18, (3), 300-322.

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