Finnish eOpinion Panel 2011

The data cover public opinion on Finnish parliamentary elections held in 2011, collected in seven separate collection rounds from the same respondents. The respondents' views on politics and changes in these views were charted both before and after the elections. In the first round, the respondents were asked about their interest in politics, self-placement on the left-right axis, satisfaction with life and trust in other people. Party preference and opinions on party leaders were investigated. In the second round of data collection, trust in different institutions and political parties was charted. Moreover, the respondents were asked to rate how good or bad several suggestions about the Finland of the future were (e.g. "Finland with smaller income disparity", "Finland in which law and order have more significance"). Views were probed on the preferred government coalition and prime minister after the 2011 parliamentary elections. Further questions charted whether the respondents were going to vote in the parliamentary elections and which party or parties they considered voting for. The third collection round included several statements charting the respondents' personal characteristics and preferences (e.g. "Abstract ideas are of no interest to me", "I often worry over things", "I'm interested in other people"). The respondents were asked whether they considered themselves to be a supporter of a certain party and to what extent they thought the Government formed after the 2007 elections had listened to the people, tried to clarify its policy decisions to them and attempted to fulfil their wishes. The final questions in this round probed how different the policies of different parties had seemed and how much the respondents liked each party. The questions in the fourth collection round charted how much the respondents had followed the approaching parliamentary elections in different media and what forms of civic participation the respondents had or would be willing to engage in. Internet use and the frequency of visiting different web sites relating to the elections in the previous two weeks were investigated. The respondents were asked to what extent they agreed with several statements concerning politics, elections and political parties. Satisfaction with the state of democracy in Finland was surveyed. In the fifth collection round, opinions on the different forms of political decision-making were charted as well as whether the respondents had followed certain campaign debates on TV. A number of statements about political hot topics were presented (e.g. "Finland should support other EU countries with financial difficulties"). The respondents' opinions on the increase in work-related immigration were investigated as well as what they thought the attitudes of different political parties towards the issue were. The sixth collection round charted whether the respondents had used candidate selectors / voting advice applications on the Internet before the parliamentary elections, which selectors they had used, how relevant they felt the questions in each selector were, whether they had followed certain campaign debates and election programmes on TV and how much they liked or disliked the party leaders. The final questions in this collection round charted whether the respondents had voted in advance or whether they were going to vote at all and which party they had or were going to vote for. In the final collection round, conducted after the elections, the respondents were asked, again, how often they had visited web sites relating to the elections in the previous two weeks. Further questions probed where they had received information that supported their voting decision, whether they had voted in the elections, the representative of which party they had voted for and whether they had considered voting for a member of another party. Finally, the respondents were asked which, the party or the candidate, had been more important when voting, how easy it had been for them to select the party and candidate they had voted for and which parties they thought should form the new coalition government. Background variables included the respondent's mother tongue, gender, electoral district, age, level of education and employment status.

本数据集涵盖了2011年芬兰议会选举的公众舆论，数据来源于对同一受访者在七个独立收集回合中的调查。受访者对政治的看法及其观点的变化在选举前后均得到了详细记录。在第一轮收集中，受访者被询问其对政治的兴趣、在左右政治轴上的自我定位、对生活的满意度和对他人的信任程度。调查还探究了他们的政党偏好以及对政党领导人的看法。在第二轮数据收集中，调查了受访者对不同机构和政党的信任度，并让他们对关于未来芬兰的若干建议（例如：“收入差距更小的芬兰”、“法律和秩序更为重要的芬兰”）的好坏进行了评价。此外，调查了受访者对2011年议会选举后理想政府联盟和总理的看法。进一步的问题调查了受访者是否打算参加议会选举以及他们考虑投票的政党。第三轮收集包含了描述受访者个人特征和偏好的若干陈述（例如：“我对抽象观念不感兴趣”、“我经常为事情担忧”、“我对他人感兴趣”）。受访者被问及他们是否认为自己支持某个政党，以及他们认为2007年选举后组成的政府有多少程度是倾听民意、试图向他们阐明政策决定并尝试满足他们的愿望。本回合的最后问题探究了不同政党政策的不同之处以及受访者对每个政党的喜好程度。第四轮收集调查了受访者对即将到来的议会选举在不同媒体上的关注程度以及他们愿意参与何种形式的公民参与。调查了受访者在过去两周内访问与选举相关的不同网站的频率。受访者被问及他们对有关政治、选举和政治党派的若干陈述的认同程度，并对芬兰民主现状的满意度进行了调查。在第五轮收集中，调查了受访者对不同形式政治决策的看法以及他们是否在电视上关注了某些竞选辩论。呈现了一系列关于政治热点话题的陈述（例如：“芬兰应该支持其他欧盟国家中的经济困难国家”）。调查了受访者对工作相关移民增加的看法，以及他们认为不同政党对此问题的态度。第六轮收集调查了受访者在议会选举前是否使用了候选人选择器/投票建议应用程序，他们使用了哪些选择器，他们认为每个选择器中的问题有多相关，他们是否在电视上关注了某些竞选辩论和选举节目，以及他们对政党领导人的喜好程度。本回合的最后问题调查了受访者是否提前投票或是否打算投票，以及他们将投票给哪个政党。在最后的收集回合中，即选举之后，受访者再次被问及他们在过去两周内访问与选举相关的网站的频率。进一步的问题探究了他们从何处获取支持其投票决定的信息，他们是否参与了选举，他们投票给了哪个政党的代表，以及他们是否考虑过为另一政党的成员投票。最后，受访者被问及在投票时，政党或候选人哪个更重要，他们选择投票的政党和候选人有多容易，以及他们认为哪些政党应该组成新的联合政府。背景变量包括受访者的母语、性别、选区、年龄、教育水平和就业状况。