Study of regionalization of the northern parts of Sweden 2008

Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Anders Lidström - Umeå University, Department of Political Science

Description:

In order to capture the views that the citizens in the northern parts of Sweden hold on regionalization and their opinions about the preconditions for development in the north, a citizen survey was carried out from September 2008. Among the citizens in the four northernmost counties, 4000 respondents have been randomly selected to take part in the survey. The questionnaire includes questions on territorial identities, regionalization, democracy, health care, regional development and consequences of globalization. Different versions of the questionnaire have been developed for each of the two new regions. The timing and to some extent also the questions have been coordinated with corresponding studies being carried out in the regions of Västra Götaland and Skåne by the SOM-institute at Göteborg University in order to make it possible to compare regionalization in the south, the west and the north in Sweden.

Subject area:

health care services and policies, social behaviour and attitudes, cultural and national identity (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords:

regionalism, national identity, community identification, globalization, internal politics

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Principal organisation:

Umeå University

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Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Anders Lidström - Umeå University, Department of Political Science

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SND-ID: SND 0884

Description:

In order to capture the views that the citizens in the northern parts of Sweden hold on regionalization and their opinions about the preconditions for development in the north, a citizen survey was carried out from September 2008. Among the citizens in the four northernmost counties, 4000 respondents have been randomly selected to take part in the survey. The questionnaire includes questions on territorial identities, regionalization, democracy, health care, regional development and consequences of globalization. Different versions of the questionnaire have been developed for each of the two new regions. The timing and to some extent also the questions have been coordinated with corresponding studies being carried out in the regions of Västra Götaland and Skåne by the SOM-institute at Göteborg University in order to make it possible to compare regionalization in the south, the west and the north in Sweden.

Language:

Swedish

Time period(s) investigated:

2008-09-22 — 2009-02-16

Geographic spread:

Geographic location: Västernorrland County, Jämtland County, Västerbotten County, Norrbotten County

Geographic description: Northern Sweden - Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Jämtland

Lowest geographic unit:

Municipality

Unit of analysis:

Population:

Unavailable

Time Method:

Sampling procedure:

Probability: Simple random

Subject area:

health care services and policies, social behaviour and attitudes, cultural and national identity (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords:

regionalism, national identity, community identification, globalization, internal politics

Available documentation:

Questionnaire Northern Sweden (Swedish)

Questionnaire Mid Sweden (Swedish)

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Lidström, A. (ed) (2009) Kan Norra Sverige regionaliseras? Beslutsprocesser och medborgarperspektiv. Forskningsrapporter i statsvetenskap vid Umeå universitet 2009:2. Umeå: Department of Political Science. ISBN 978-91-7264-864-7.
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Version 2.0:

2011-01-31 doi:10.5878/002384

Version 1.0:

2010-08-27 doi:10.5878/002383

Available documentation:

Codebook (Swedish)

Study of regionalization of the northern parts of Sweden 2008

Citation:

Anders Lidström. Umeå University, Department of Political Science (2011). Study of regionalization of the northern parts of Sweden 2008. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002384

Data format / data structure:

Numeric

Data collection:

Time period(s) for data collection: 2008-09-22 — 2009-02-16

Source of the data: Population group

Variables:

543

Number of individuals/objects:

2392

Response rate/participation rate:

64