Alternative title
Åsikter om den offentliga sektorn och skatterna 1992
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Jonas Edlund - Umeå University, Department of Sociology
Björn Halleröd - University of Gothenburg, Department of Sociology and Work Science
Stefan Svallfors - Umeå University, Department of Sociology
Rune Åberg - Umeå University, Department of Sociology
Description
This survey inquiring the Swedish people´s attitudes towards their taxes was financed by the ministry of finance through the ´Kommittén för utvärdering av skattereformen´ (KUSK). For a number of statements occurring in the current Swedish debate the respondents had to state if they agreed or not. Other questions dealt with their opinion on public expenses and social service; if they wanted the amount of tax money spent on a number of different areas to increase, decrease or to be kept unchanged; how to finance education, medical service, child care and care of the elderly; and best suited to take care of education, medical service, child care, care of elderly, and social welfare. Furthermore, the respondents had to state how to distribute the responsibility for financing social insurances between the individual and the public sector; how common they believe it to be that social security benefits and social care services are misused. Respondents also had to report their own experiences of social services during the last three years. A number of questions dealt with opinions on the Swedish taxes
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Swedish
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Department of Sociology
Data contains personal data
No
Unit of analysis
Population
Individuals aged 18-74 years and residing in Sweden
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
1992-02-01 – 1992-05-01
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
County (NUTS3)
Research area
Economic policy, public expenditure and revenue, Social welfare policy, Social welfare systems/structures, Specific social services: use and availability, Social behaviour and attitudes
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Sociology
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
public sector, care of the elderly, fiscal policy, social welfare, public expenditure, social welfare expenditure, educational expenditure, child care, medical care, public services, privatization, taxation, social security benefits, education, social welfare finance, welfare economics, social welfare philosophy
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Svallfors, S. (1995) The End of Class Politics? Structural Cleavages and Attitudes to Swedish Welfare Policies. Acta Sociologica, 1995.
Svallfors, S. (1994) Svenskarna och välfärdspolitiken: opinionstrender 1970-93. Häften för kritiska studier, nr 2-3, 1994, s. 39-52.
Svallfors, S. (1994) Farväl till välfärdsstaten? Attityder till svensk välfärdspolitik 1986-92. In Har vi råd att avvara välfärden?. Stockholm: FKF debatt.
Åberg, R. (1993) Århundradets skattereform? Politik och opinion kring 1991 års skattereform. Stockholm: Norstedts.
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Svallfors, S. (1995) Den svenska välfärdsopinionen. Välfärdsbulletinen, nr 1, 1995.
Svallfors, S. (1994) Farväl till välfärdsstaten. TLM nr 19, 1994, s. 21-24.
Svallfors, S. (1995) Svenskarna och välfärdspolitiken: opinionstrender 1970-93. Stockholm: TCO.
Eger, M A. Even in Sweden: The effect of immigration on support for welfare state spending. Studentarbete vid Department of Sociology, University of Washington
Svallfors, S. (1995) Den stabila välfärdsopinionen : attityder till svensk välfärdspolitik 1986-1992. Report no 5, project Opinioner kring 1991 års skattereform. Umeå: Department of Sociology.
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Jonas Edlund - Umeå University, Department of Sociology
Björn Halleröd - University of Gothenburg, Department of Sociology and Work Science
Stefan Svallfors - Umeå University, Department of Sociology
Rune Åberg - Umeå University, Department of Sociology
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103
Number of individuals/objects
1346
Response rate/participation rate
76 (vägd)