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The National SOM Survey 1987

SND-ID: SND 0228

This study is part of the collection The National SOM survey

Alternative title

Riks-SOM 1987

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute

Description

This dataset contains information from the second SOM-survey. The questionnaire was divided into seven subject fields: Mass media; politics and society; energy and nuclear power; Sweden´s relation to other countries; housing and interests; social background; and music. Many of the questions are replications of questions asked in SOM86, some of the questions put in SOM86 are excluded and a number of questions are added. These new questions deal with: important content in morning papers; etical rules in news service; advertisement; the most important problems of society; quality of party leaders; privatisation; government control of municipalities, trade and industry, and the individual; confidence in different groups in regard to foreign policy; government consideration to different groups in regard to foreign policy; televison treatment of those in power in a number of countries; comparisons between morning papers and television; respondent´s activities during the last 12 months; statements about respondent´s work; changes in the economic situation for the respondent and for the country; and m

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Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

Department of Political Science

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Swedish citizens aged 15-75 years and residing in Sweden

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Time period(s) investigated

1987

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Lowest geographic unit

County (NUTS3)

Highest geographic unit

Country

Topic and keywords

Research area

Media, Environment and conservation, Energy and natural resources, Political behaviour and attitudes, International politics and organisations, Leisure, tourism and sport (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science, Media Studies (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

elections, housing, mass media, defence, participation, public sector, international relations, energy, environment, planning, leisure time, job satisfaction, political interest, nuclear energy, newspaper readership, membership, listening to music, state control, television news, energy policy, radioactive wastes, equipment, local press, professional ethics, foreign policy, economic aid, privatization, advertising, press advertising, economic conditions, risk, internal politics, political parties, political leaders, leisure time activities, organizations, refugees, cors

Publications

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Oscarsson, Henrik (ed.) (2003) Demokratitrender. SOM report no. 32. Göteborg: SOM Institute. ISBN 91-89673-02-6.
SOM Institute publications | Libris
ISBN: 91-89673-02-6
ISSN: 0284-4788

Berg O. (2008) Attityder kring kärnkraft i Sverige : en studie av förändringar i attityder från folkomröstningen 1980 fram till år 2006. C-uppsats, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet

Oscarsson, H. (1998) Den svenska partirymden : Väljarnas uppfattningar av konfliktstrukturen i partisystemet 1956-1996. Göteborg : Department of Political Science. ISBN: 91-628-3000-7.
Libris
ISBN: 91-628-3000-7
ISSN: 0346-5942

Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (eds.) (2004) Swedish Trends 1986-2004. Göteborg: SOM Institute.

Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (eds.) (1995) Swedish Opinion. Göteborg: SOM Institute. ISBN 91-972694-0-9.
SOM Institute publications
ISBN: 91-972694-0-9

Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (eds.) (1988) SOM-undersökningen 1987 : genomförande, deltagande, huvudresultat. SOM report no 2. Göteborg: Department of Political Science.
SOM Institute publications
ISSN: 0284-4788

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The National SOM Survey 1987

Associated documentation

Version 1.0

Citation

University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute (1990). The National SOM Survey 1987. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002345

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: paper
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 1987-10-14–1988-02-10
  • Data collector: University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
  • Instrument: Questionnaire National SOM 1987 (Structured questionnaire)
  • Source of the data: Population group

Variables

352

Number of individuals/objects

2501

Response rate/participation rate

70%

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The National SOM survey

Published: 1989-01-01
Last updated: 2019-08-20