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Local radio coverage of the election campaign 1979

SND-ID: SND 0116

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Lennart Brantgärde - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science

Description

A new medium took part in the 1979 election campaign: for the first time the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, represented by its subsidiary Swedish Local Broadcasting Corporation, had the possibility to cover all local election campaigns. Primarily the aim was to look into the amount of transmission time every local radio station had used for programs specific for one commune. The information was collected before and during the election campaign and is consequently a measure of transmissions planned by each local radio station.

Purpose:

Shed light on how local radio reported on the three concurrent elections: the parliamentary election, country council elections and local elections.

Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science

Funding

  • Funding agency: Swedish Council for Research in the Humanitie and Social Sciences
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Swedish municipalities

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Time period(s) investigated

1979-08 – 1979-09

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Lowest geographic unit

Municipality

Topic and keywords

Research area

Media, Elections (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

elections, local government elections, parliamentary elections, election broadcasting, local broadcasting, election campaigns

Publications

Brantgärde, L. (1979) Sveriges lokalradios bevakning av valrörelsen 1979. Report series 1979:5. Göteborg: Department of Political Science.
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Local radio coverage of the election campaign 1979

Associated documentation

Version 1.1

2012-07-16
https://doi.org/10.5878/001114

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Citation

Lennart Brantgärde. University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science (2012). Local radio coverage of the election campaign 1979. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.1. https://doi.org/10.5878/001114

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Lennart Brantgärde - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science

Time period(s) investigated

1979-08 – 1979-09

Collection methodology

Data are collected from the pre-announced plans for election coverage made by the local radio stations.

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Content coding
  • Description of the mode of collection: Data are collected from the pre-announced plans for election coverage made by the ocal radio stations.
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 1979–1979
  • Data collector: University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
  • Source of the data: Communications: Public

Variables

15

Number of individuals/objects

277

Published: 1982-01-01
Last updated: 2020-01-17