The National SOM Survey 2003
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Creator/Principal investigator(s):
University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute
Description:
Since 1986 the SOM-institute has been carrying out an annual nation-wide survey of Swedish opinions. This is accordingly the eighteenth survey in this series. The SOM-institute is a collaboration between three departments at Göteborg University: the Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication, the Department of Political Science, and the School of Public Administration. Since 1998 the survey includes two nation representative samples and uses two different mail questionnaires. One of the questionnaires mainly deals with questions on politics, economy and working life, while the other mainly deals with media, culture and health. One third of the questions asked in the two questionnaires are common for both samples, for example questions about media habits, political attitudes, leisure activities, and social background.
The questionnaire on politics include twelve different subject fields: news; politics and society; Sweden and the surrounding world; mass media, the internet, and possession of technical equipment; society, public service and democracy; consumption and society; knowledge and
Subject area:
media, political behaviour and attitudes, elections, leisure, tourism and sport
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science, Media Studies
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords:
mass media, population migration, energy, environment, mass media exposure, health, trust, immigrants, european union, political interest, local government services, nuclear energy, membership, party identification, trade union membership, public services, reading, household composition, listening to the radio, radio news, television news, political allegiance, labour and employment, educational background, political participation, television viewing, research, internal politics, political parties, internet use, european economic and monetary union, political leaders, attitude change, clubs, libraries, leisure time activities, mass media use, renewable energy, trust in government
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Responsible department/unit:
University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute
Creator/Principal investigator(s):
University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute
Identifiers:
SND-ID: SND 0813
Alternative title:
Riks-SOM 2003
Description:
Since 1986 the SOM-institute has been carrying out an annual nation-wide survey of Swedish opinions. This is accordingly the eighteenth survey in this series. The SOM-institute is a collaboration between three departments at Göteborg University: the Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication, the Department of Political Science, and the School of Public Administration. Since 1998 the survey includes two nation representative samples and uses two different mail questionnaires. One of the questionnaires mainly deals with questions on politics, economy and working life, while the other mainly deals with media, culture and health. One third of the questions asked in the two questionnaires are common for both samples, for example questions about media habits, political attitudes, leisure activities, and social background.
The questionnaire on politics include twelve different subject fields: news; politics and society; Sweden and the surrounding world; mass media, the internet, and possession of technical equipment; society, public service and democracy; consumption and society; knowledge and
Language:
Swedish
Time period(s) investigated:
2003
Instrument:
Merged questionnaire (1-2) (Questionnaire)
Geographic spread:
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit:
Municipality
Highest geographic unit:
Country
Unit of analysis:
Population:
Individuals aged 15-85 years and residing in Sweden
Time Method:
Sampling procedure:
Subject area:
media, political behaviour and attitudes, elections, leisure, tourism and sport
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science, Media Studies
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords:
mass media, population migration, energy, environment, mass media exposure, health, trust, immigrants, european union, political interest, local government services, nuclear energy, membership, party identification, trade union membership, public services, reading, household composition, listening to the radio, radio news, television news, political allegiance, labour and employment, educational background, political participation, television viewing, research, internal politics, political parties, internet use, european economic and monetary union, political leaders, attitude change, clubs, libraries, leisure time activities, mass media use, renewable energy, trust in government
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Available documentation:
Publications
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
Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (eds.) (2004) Swedish Trends 1986-2004. Göteborg: SOM Institute.
Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (eds.) (2004) Ju mer vi är tillsammans : tjugosju kapitel om politik, medier och samhälle : SOM-undersökningen 2003. SOM report no. 34. Göteborg: SOM Institute. ISBN 91-89673-04-2.
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ISSN:
0284-4788
ISBN:
91-89673-04-2
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Version 1.0:
2011-01-14
doi:10.5878/002336
The National SOM Survey 2003
Suggested citation:
University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute. University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute (2011). The National SOM Survey 2003. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002336
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: 2003-09-15 — 2004-02-17
Data collector: Kinnmark
Sample size: 6000
Number of responses: 3675
Non response size: 2325
Cause of non response — Respondent unable to participate: 450
Cause of non response — No contact/refusal: 1876
Source of the data: Population group
Variables:
1006
Number of individuals/objects:
3675
Response rate/participation rate:
66%