Opinion '90

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Lennart Weibull - University of Gothenburg, Department of Journalism Media and Communication

Description

One of the topics of this survey is reading habits and attitude to the local information paper 'Vårt Göteborg', published by the municipality of Göteborg. Six times a year the paper is distributed freely to all households in Göteborg. The paper as a source of information is compared with other media. Another topic of this survey was the introduction of neighbourhood committees. The respondent had to give an opinion on how well informed she/he was about the neighbourhood committees, if there had been any information at all about the introduction of the committees, and if so, what kind of sources of information there had been. Other questions dealt with the respondents attitude to and knowledge about the committees. The third topic of this survey was the shipping company Stena Line from an environmental viewpoint. Questions were asked about what environmental actions one believed had been taken from the company and if one had paid attention to the campaign 'Levande Kattegatt'. Other questions dealt with the respondent's own environmental activities.

Subject area

Media, Information society, Environment and conservation, Government, political systems and organisations (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Principal organisation

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Lennart Weibull - University of Gothenburg, Department of Journalism Media and Communication

Identifiers

SND-ID: SND 0289

Description

One of the topics of this survey is reading habits and attitude to the local information paper 'Vårt Göteborg', published by the municipality of Göteborg. Six times a year the paper is distributed freely to all households in Göteborg. The paper as a source of information is compared with other media. Another topic of this survey was the introduction of neighbourhood committees. The respondent had to give an opinion on how well informed she/he was about the neighbourhood committees, if there had been any information at all about the introduction of the committees, and if so, what kind of sources of information there had been. Other questions dealt with the respondents attitude to and knowledge about the committees. The third topic of this survey was the shipping company Stena Line from an environmental viewpoint. Questions were asked about what environmental actions one believed had been taken from the company and if one had paid attention to the campaign 'Levande Kattegatt'. Other questions dealt with the respondent's own environmental activities.

Language

Swedish

Time period(s) investigated

1990-01-01 — 1990-03-31

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Geographic description: Göteborg

Unit of analysis

Population

Individuals aged 15-75 years and residing in Göteborg municipality

Time Method

Data contains personal data

No

Subject area

Media, Information society, Environment and conservation, Government, political systems and organisations (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Associated documentation

0289.html

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Publications

Nordström, L. (1991) Vårt Göteborg : en läsarundersökning ur ett användningsperspektiv. Göteborg: Department of journalism and mass communication.

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Opinion '90

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Lennart Weibull - University of Gothenburg, Department of Journalism Media and Communication

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Data collection

Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: paper

Time period(s) for data collection: 1990-01-01 — 1990-03-31

Data collector: University of Gothenburg, Department of Journalism Media and Communication

Source of the data: Population group

Variables

149

Number of individuals/objects

292

Published: 1992-01-01
Last updated: 2019-02-06