Alternative title
Riks-SOM 2003
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
Language
Swedish
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
University of Gothenburg, SOM InstituteData contains personal data
No
Unit of analysis
Population
Individuals aged 15-85 years and residing in Sweden
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
2003
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
Municipality
Highest geographic unit
Country
Research 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, 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, households, clubs, libraries, leisure time activities, mass media use, renewable energy, trust in government, radio listening, reading (activity)
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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Libris
SOM Institute publications
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ISSN:
0284-4788
ISBN:
91-89673-04-2
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Associated documentation
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https://doi.org/10.5878/002336
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Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute
Variables
1006
Number of individuals/objects
3675
Response rate/participation rate
66