Young People and European Parliament Elections 1999

The survey studied the attitudes of Finnish young people towards the European Union, and their participation in the European Parliamentary elections in June 1999. The Advisory Council for Youth Affairs (NUORA) followed the election behaviour of Finnish young people under 30 years of age in the 1999 parliamentary elections, the 1999 European Parliamentary elections and the presidential elections of the year 2000. By monitoring the voting behaviour of the youth, NUORA wanted to pay attention to young people's low turnout in elections, and to find out which factors contributed to this lack of interest. The survey covered topics such as the respondents' opinions on the functioning of democracy in Finland, in the European Union, and on the local level. The respondents' knowledge about the EU and the European Parliament, and their views on Finland's EU membership were surveyed. Further questions focused on their causes of concern, political and social activities, voting behaviour in the European Parliamentary elections, and reasons for abstaining from voting. Participation in voluntary organisations was studied. The respondents were asked how effective they considered certain political participation methods to be: voting in elections, contacting politicians or public officials, expressing opinions in the media, participating in demostrations, boycotting, participating in political parties' activities, etc. One question pertained to how certain the respondents were that they were going to vote in the forthcoming presidential elections in 2000. Finally, the respondents were asked whether they would give their consent to be contacted after the forthcoming presidential elections. Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, basic and vocational education, economic activity, occupational group, housing tenure, household compostition, type of neighbourhood, income level, vocational education of the parents, and own, spouse's and parents' unemployment periods. The dataset also contains several regional variables.

本调查旨在探究芬兰青年对欧盟的态度及其于1999年6月欧洲议会选举中的参与情况。青年事务咨询委员会（NUORA）追踪了1999年议会选举、1999年欧洲议会选举以及2000年总统选举中30岁以下芬兰青年的选举行为。通过监测青年的投票行为，NUORA旨在关注青年选举参与度较低的问题，并探寻导致这种缺乏兴趣的因素。调查涵盖了诸如受访者对芬兰、欧盟以及地方层面民主运作的看法、受访者对欧盟和欧洲议会的知识水平、以及对芬兰欧盟成员身份的观点等主题。进一步的问题聚焦于他们的忧虑来源、政治和社会活动、在欧洲议会选举中的投票行为以及不投票的原因。调查还研究了志愿组织参与情况。受访者被问及他们认为哪些政治参与方式是有效的：在选举中投票、联系政治家或公职人员、在媒体中表达观点、参与示威、抵制、参与政党活动等。其中一个问题涉及受访者对是否会在即将到来的2000年总统选举中投票的确定性。最后，受访者被问及是否同意在总统选举后与他们取得联系。背景变量包括受访者的性别、年龄、基础教育及职业教育、经济活动、职业群体、住房状况、家庭构成、邻里类型、收入水平、父母的职业教育以及本人、配偶和父母的失业期限。数据集还包含多个地区变量。