Sweden Now, 1978 (ICPSR 8504)
Version Date: Mar 27, 2017 View help for published
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Testologen, Ltd.
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08504.v2
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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, shopping habits, interest in social issues, and interest in pursuing a variety of recreational activities.
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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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Randomized sample selected from population records.
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Universe View help for Universe
Swedish citizens ages 15-70.
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mail surveys
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1988-06-01
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- Testologen, Ltd. Sweden Now, 1978. ICPSR08504-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-03-27. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08504.v2
2017-03-27 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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The data are not weighted, however there is one weight variable, V5 (DROP-OFF WEIGHTING), that users may wish to apply during analysis.
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Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
- The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. Please see version history for more details.

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