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The National SOM Survey 2003

SND-ID: snd0813-1. Version: 1.0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/002336

Is part of collection at SND: The National SOM survey

Citation

Alternative title

Riks-SOM 2003

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute

Research principal

University of Gothenburg - SOM Institute rorId

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

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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 society; environment and energy; industry and work; activities and interests; work life; and background questions. The media questionnaire is divided into ten subject fields: news and daily papers; politics and society; radio and television; possession of technical equipment, the internet and other media; books, periodicals, and libraries; 'Your view on the morning paper and other media'; activities and interests; work life; background questions; and 'Your yesterday'.

Purpose:

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

Data contains personal data

No

Language

Method and outcome

Unit of analysis

Population

Individuals aged 15-85 years and residing in Sweden

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random
Tre parallel nationally representative sub-surveys based on a sample of 3000 individuals each

Time period(s) investigated

2003 – Ongoing

Variables

1006

Number of individuals/objects

3675

Response rate/participation rate

66%

Data format / data structure

Data collection
  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: paper
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2003-09-15 – 2004-02-17
  • Data collector: Kinnmark
  • Instrument: Merged questionnaire (1-2) (Questionnaire)
  • 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
Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Lowest geographic unit

Municipality

Highest geographic unit

Country

Administrative information

Responsible department/unit

SOM Institute

Publications

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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

Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (eds.) (2004) Swedish Trends 1986-2004. Göteborg: SOM Institute.

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

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Versions

Version 1.0. 2011-01-14

Version 1.0: 2011-01-14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/002336

Is part of collection at SND

Published: 2011-01-14
Last updated: 2020-01-23