Swedish Party Membership Survey 2015, complete dataset

SND-ID: SND 1072

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Ann-Kristin Kölln - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science orcid

Jonathan Polk - Lund University, Department of Political Science orcid

Description

In the early part of 2015, the party secretaries of six of the eight Swedish Riksdag parties (plus the Feminist Initiative as the only other Swedish party represented in the European Parliament) agreed to take part in an online survey of their memberships, which would be administered through the Laboratory of Opinion Research (LORE) at the University of Gothenburg.

In May, these party secretaries distributed individualized links to an otherwise identical web-survey to their members via email. All parties, except for the Social Democrats, sent out the survey to the entire membership list. The Social Democrats sent the survey to a large randomly drawn sample from their membership list. When it was closed on July 3, a total of 10,392 Swedish party members had completed the survey.

Purpose:

The purpose of the Swedish party membership survey is to allow researchers to investigate much more specific and rich questions about party members in Sweden. The survey questions are grouped into six modules: socio-demographic, general political attitudes, reasons for and extent of enrolment, position with

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Language

English

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

Department of Political Science

Funding

  • Funding agency: Ministry of Justice rorId
  • Project name on the application: Partimedlemmar i Sverige / Party Members in Sweden
  • Funding information: Performed as a part of the 2014 Royal Commission of Democracy (Ju 2014:19)
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

Yes

Sensitive personal data

Yes

Type of personal data

Indirect identifiers (year of membership; year of birth; open text fields). Contains public opinion.

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

registered party members

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration
Party secretaries distributed individualized links to an otherwise identical web-survey to their members via email. All parties, except for the Social Democrats, sent out the survey to the entire membership list. The Social Democrats sent the survey to a large randomly drawn sample from their membership list.

The gross sample size is 105,632 party members (Fp/L = 11,807; Mp = 18,772; S = 7,500; V =16,009; KD = 9,797; M =20,007; Fi = 22,240)

Time period(s) investigated

2015-05-01 – 2015-07-03

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Geographic description: The survey covered the entire country of Sweden.

Lowest geographic unit

Constituency

Highest geographic unit

Country

Topic and keywords

Research area

Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Publications

Kölln, Ann-Kristin and Jonathan Polk. 2017. "Emancipated party members: Examining ideological incongruence within political parties" Party Politics. 23(1): 18-29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068816655566

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Dataset
Swedish Party Membership Survey 2015, complete dataset

Description

In the early part of 2015, the party secretaries of six of the eight Swedish Riksdag parties (plus the Feminist Initiative as the only other Swedish party represented in the European Parliament) agreed to take part in an online survey of their memberships, which would be administered through the Laboratory of Opinion Research (LORE) at the University of Gothenburg.

In May, these party secretaries distributed individualized links to an otherwise identical web-survey to their members via email.

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Version 2

2022-07-21
https://doi.org/10.5878/kemp-jx26

Variable(s) corrected : Corrected variable labels in STATA file

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Citation

Ann-Kristin Kölln, Jonathan Polk. University of Gothenburg (2022). Swedish Party Membership Survey 2015, complete dataset. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2. https://doi.org/10.5878/kemp-jx26

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Text

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Ann-Kristin Kölln - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science orcid

Jonathan Polk - Lund University, Department of Political Science orcid

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: web based
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2015-05-01–2015-07-03
  • Number of responses: 10392
  • Source of the data: Population group

Variables

190

Number of individuals/objects

10392

Published: 2018-12-05
Last updated: 2022-07-21