Sweden Now, 1972 (ICPSR 8498)

Version Date: Mar 23, 2017

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Principal Investigator(s):
Testologen, Ltd.

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08498.v2

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Summary

This is one of a series of consumer omnibus surveys conducted each year in Sweden. Among the main topics covered are: readership of different newspapers and periodicals, household ownership of a variety of consumer products, interest in purchasing additional consumer goods, and interest in pursuing a variety of recreational activities.

Citation

Testologen, Ltd. Sweden Now, 1972. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-03-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08498.v2

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1972

Date of Collection

1972-02-27 -- 1972-04-07

Data Collection Notes

  1. Codebook documentation is in Swedish. ICPSR has provided an English translation for the introduction and variable description list. These data were made available by the Swedish Social Science Data Service.

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Sample

Randomized sample selected from population records.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Swedish citizens ages 15-67.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

1988-06-01

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:
  • Testologen, Ltd. Sweden Now, 1972. ICPSR08498-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-03-23. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08498.v2

2017-03-23 The SPSS setup files were updated to conform to current standards. SAS and Stata setup files, as well as SPSS and Stata system files, a SAS transport (CPORT) file, a R data file, a tab-delimited data file, and a PDF codebook have been added to the collection.

1988-06-01 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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Weight

The data are not weighted, however here is one weight variable, V5 (DROP-OFF WEIGHTING), that users may wish to apply during analysis.

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Notes