Swedish National Election Study, 1960 (ICPSR 7366)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Bo Saerlvik

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07366.v1

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Summary

The Swedish Election Study, 1960, was conducted by the Institute of Political Science, the University of Goteborg, Sweden, as part of a political behavior research program that studied Riksdag (parliamentary) elections in the period 1956-1970. This study carried out an electorate survey in two stages with two different subsamples. Respondents in Subsample A were interviewed before the election, and were asked to complete a short mail-in questionnaire after the election. Subsample B was only interviewed in the weeks immediately following the election. Information was gathered about the respondents' communities, their position and mobility within those communities, and their exposure to the information media (television, local and national newspapers, radio, magazines, and political pamphlets). Respondents were also asked to rate their interest in various topics such as crime, political news, international news, sports, editorials, and economics, and to relate their opinions on the media and these topics to the 1960 election. Questions also probed respondents' reactions to existing political issues and to the government's related policies. Demographic data include sex, marital status, year of marriage, year of birth, income, spouse's income, and family income.

Citation

Saerlvik, Bo. Swedish National Election Study, 1960. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07366.v1

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Funding

University of Goteborg. Institute of Political Science, Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1960

Date of Collection

1960 (fall)
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Sample

Two-stage probability sample drawn from the Swedish Central Bureau of Statistics' sampling framework, consisting of a nationwide net of primary sampling units. Within 70 primary sampling units, names were drawn from population registers using a procedure that excluded persons not eligible to vote. For the purposes of this study, the resulting sample was split into two subsamples of equal size.

Universe

Swedish citizens born during the period 1880-1938 and eligible to vote.

Data Source

personal interviews and mailback questionnaires

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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:
  • Saerlvik, Bo. Swedish National Election Study, 1960. ICPSR07366-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 197?. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07366.v1
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