The National SOM Survey 2004
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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 nineteenth 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; the surrounding world; media and possession of technical equipment; journalism and society; society, public service and democracy; animals and nature; knowledge and society; en
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)
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Accessibility status:
Responsible department/unit:
University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute
Creator/Principal investigator(s):
University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute
Identifiers:
SND-ID: SND 0827
Alternative title:
Riks-SOM 2004
Description:
Since 1986 the SOM-institute has been carrying out an annual nation-wide survey of Swedish opinions. This is accordingly the nineteenth 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; the surrounding world; media and possession of technical equipment; journalism and society; society, public service and democracy; animals and nature; knowledge and society; en
Language:
Swedish
Time period(s) investigated:
2004
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)
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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.) (2005) Lyckan kommer, lyckan går : trettio kapitel om politik, medier och samhälle : SOM-undersökningen 2004. SOM report no. 36. Göteborg: SOM Institute. ISBN 91-89673-05-9.
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ISSN:
0284-4788
ISBN:
91-89673-06-9
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Version 1.0:
2011-01-14
doi:10.5878/001180
The National SOM Survey 2004
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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: 2004-09-13 — 2005-02-04
Data collector: Kinnmark
Sample size: 6000
Number of responses: 3612
Non response size: 2388
Cause of non response — No contact/refusal: 1947
Cause of non response — Respondent unable to participate: 441
Source of the data: Population group
Variables:
1003
Number of individuals/objects:
3612