Alternative title

Klass-SOM 2008

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute

Description

The Class SOM questionnaire consisted of typical SOM questions about politics, society, media and leisure habits but also a large set of work-related questions.
The study was carried out alongside National SOM 2008

Purpose:

The purpose of the survey is to explore working life and job conditions in Sweden

Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

SOM Institute

Funding

Funding agency: Swedish Research Council
Funding agency's reference number: 2007-2320

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Individual

Population

Individuals aged 16-85 years and residing in Sweden

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Lowest geographic unit

Municipality

Highest geographic unit

Country

Topic and keywords

Research area

Media, LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT, Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Sociology, Political Science, Media and Communications (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

internal politics, cors

Publications

Oskarson, Maria,Bengtsson, Mattias & Berglund, Tomas (eds.) (2010). En fråga om klass: levnadsförhållanden, livsstil, politik. SOM report nr 49. Malmö: Liber. ISBN: 978-91-47-09507-0.
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ISBN: 978-91-47-09507-0

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Dataset

The Class SOM Survey 2008

Associated documentation

Klass-SOM 3 2008 fomulär.pdf

Skannerbok Klass-SOM 2008.pdf

Version 1.0

2016-04-13
https://doi.org/10.5878/002852

Citation

University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute (2016). The Class SOM Survey 2008. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002852

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

University of Gothenburg, SOM Institute

Data collection

Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: paper
Time period(s) for data collection: 2008-09-19–2009-02-02
Data collector: Klangen försvarsmedia
Sample size: 4000
Number of responses: 2374
Source of the data: Population group

Variables

433

Number of individuals/objects

2374

Response rate/participation rate

63.6%