This study is part of the collection The Regional Western Sweden SOM survey
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute
Description
Since 1986 an annual nationwide survey, called SOM-survey, has been carried out at Göteborg University. In 1992 a similar survey was carried out in Western Sweden, i.e. Göteborg and eleven neighbour municipalities. The purpose of this survey was to shed light on opinions in Western Sweden and their development over time, and also to study how they relate to opinions in Sweden as a whole. The questionnaire was divided into five subject fields: mass media; politics and society; the municipality of Göteborg; energy, nuclear power and environment; and background. This questionnaire is partly a replication of the one used in the nationwide SOM-survey, but there is also a number of questions dealing with the situation in Göteborg and neighbouring municipalities. The questions about mass media dealt with how often the respondents read a number of daily papers; how often they listen to different radio channels; the trustworthiness of the reports of local events in a number of media; time spent daily viewing television, reading morning paper and reading evening paper; how often the respondent watch a n
... Show more..Subject area
Media, Environment and conservation, Energy and natural resources, Political behaviour and attitudes
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science, Media Studies
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
Map
Principal organisation
Accessibility status
Homepage
Responsible department/unit
University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute
Identifiers
SND-ID: SND 0460
Alternative title
Väst-SOM 1992
Description
Since 1986 an annual nationwide survey, called SOM-survey, has been carried out at Göteborg University. In 1992 a similar survey was carried out in Western Sweden, i.e. Göteborg and eleven neighbour municipalities. The purpose of this survey was to shed light on opinions in Western Sweden and their development over time, and also to study how they relate to opinions in Sweden as a whole. The questionnaire was divided into five subject fields: mass media; politics and society; the municipality of Göteborg; energy, nuclear power and environment; and background. This questionnaire is partly a replication of the one used in the nationwide SOM-survey, but there is also a number of questions dealing with the situation in Göteborg and neighbouring municipalities. The questions about mass media dealt with how often the respondents read a number of daily papers; how often they listen to different radio channels; the trustworthiness of the reports of local events in a number of media; time spent daily viewing television, reading morning paper and reading evening paper; how often the respondent watch a n
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Swedish
Time period(s) investigated
1992-10 — 1993-01
Geographic spread
Lowest geographic unit
Municipality
Highest geographic unit
Municipality
Unit of analysis
Population
Individuals aged 15-80 years residing in Göteborg or one of the eleven surrounding municipalities, Ale, Härryda, Kungsbacka, Kungälv, Lerum, Lilla Edet, Mölndal, Partille, Stenungsund, Tjörn and Öckerö.
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Subject area
Media, Environment and conservation, Energy and natural resources, Political behaviour and attitudes
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science, Media Studies
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
Is part of collection at SND
Associated documentation
Nilsson, Lennart (ed.) (1993) Västsvensk opinion : SOM-undersökningen Västsverige 1992. SOM report no. 10. Göteborg: SOM Institute.
SOM Institute publications
ISSN:
0284-4788
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Version 1.0
1994-12-01
https://doi.org/10.5878/002644
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Data collection
Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: paper
Time period(s) for data collection: 1992-10-26 — 1993-01-18
Data collector: Långedrags Informationskonsult
Sample size: 2800
Number of responses: 1603
Source of the data: Population group
Variables
403
Number of individuals/objects
1603
Response rate/participation rate
60.5