The National SOM Survey 1996

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Since 1986 the research project ´Samhälle Opinion Massmedia´ (SOM) has been carrying out an annual nation-wide survey of Swedish opinions. This is accordingly the eleventh survey in this series. The questionnaire was divided into six subject fields: mass media; politics and society; Sweden´s relations to the rest of the world; energy, nuclear power and environment; leisure; and background. Most of the questions are replications of questions asked in one or several previous SOM-surveys. New media questions dealt with how often the respondent read local advertisement papers as well as daily papers on the internet. The respondent also had to state if a number of statements corresponded with qualities held by the morning and evening papers the respondent used to read, and to indicate if criticism directed towards daily papers could be applied on papers read by the respondent. Respondents were also asked about their opinion on the function of democracy in Sweden, attitudes towards proposals how to reduce unemployment, and to give their opinion on the possibility to reduce unemployment by 50 percent until year 2000. Furthermore the respondents had to rank the most important and second most important goals for Sweden to work towards during the coming ten years. Respondents were also asked if they could consider to undertake political assignments for the political party they sympathize with. Other questions dealt with qualities possessed by three different political parties and their party leaders as well as by three different mass media; attitudes towards referendum held in certain issues as well as general attitudes toward referenda; and different group´s influence on programs supplied by the non commercial television channels as well as the commercial channel TV4. Respondents had to state if they believed one in general can trust most people, they also had to tell how satisfied they were with their own life, and to tell their knowledge of foreign languages. Show less..

Subject area:

leisure, tourism and sport, international politics and organisations, media, environment and conservation, energy and natural resources, political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Political Science, Social Sciences, Media Studies (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords:

mass media, population migration, political party, energy, environment, unemployment, european union, political interest, local government services, nuclear energy, newspaper readership, membership, newspaper press, listening to the radio, television channels, refugees, languages, television advertising, leisure time activities, clubs, news, television news, television programmes, energy policy, nuclear wastes, journalism, health risks, risk, referendums, political party leaders, financial markets, wind power, terrorism, environmental policy, internal politics, CORS

Principal organisation:

University of Gothenburg

Accessibility status:

Access to data through SND
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SOM Institute - The National SOM surveys

Responsible department/unit:

University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute

Creator/Principal investigator(s):

University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute

Identifiers:

SND-ID: SND 0589

Alternative title:

Riks-SOM 1996

Purpose:

The main purpose of the surveys is to establish time series that enable researchers to analyse how various changes in society affect people's attitudes and behaviour.

Description:

Language:

Swedish

Time period(s) investigated:

1996

Instrument:

Questionnaire

Geographic spread:

Geographic location: Sweden

Lowest geographic unit:

County (NUTS3)

Highest geographic unit:

Country

Unit of analysis:

Individual

Population:

Individuals aged 15-80 years and residing in Sweden

Time Method:

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling procedure:

Probability: Simple random

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Is part of collection at SND:

The National SOM survey

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Questionnaire (Swedish)

Codebook (Swedish)

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Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (eds.) (1997) Ett missnöjt folk? : SOM-undersökningen 1996. SOM report no 18. Göteborg: SOM Institute. ISBN 91-972694-5-X.
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Oscarsson, Henrik (ed.) (2003) Demokratitrender. SOM report no. 32. Göteborg: SOM Institute. ISBN 91-89673-02-6.
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Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (eds.) (2004) Swedish Trends 1986-2004. Göteborg: SOM Institute.

Oscarsson, H. (1998) Den svenska partirymden : Väljarnas uppfattningar av konfliktstrukturen i partisystemet 1956-1996. Göteborg : Department of Political Science. ISBN: 91-628-3000-7.
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Version 2.0:

2011-01-14 doi:10.5878/002352

Version 1.0:

1998-04-01 doi:10.5878/002351

The National SOM Survey 1996

Citation:

University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute (2011). The National SOM Survey 1996. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002352

Data format / data structure:

Numeric

Data collection:

Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: paper

Time period(s) for data collection: 1996-09-30 — 1997-01-28

Data collector: Gallup

Sample size: 2841

Number of responses: 1779

Non response size: 1062

Source of the data: Population group

Variables:

547

Number of individuals/objects:

1779

Published in catalogue: 1998