Presidential Elections 2000, First Round

The survey focused on the 2000 presidential elections in Finland. The respondents were asked whether they had voted in the first round of the presidential elections in the year 2000 and for which candidate they had voted. They were also asked when they had made their voting decision and how the media, advertising, close friends, candidate selectors / voting advice applications on the Internet, or the candidate's campaign websites affected their voting decision. In addition, the respondents were presented with a list of various things and asked to say which of them affected their choice of candidate in the first round of the elections. Those who had not voted in the first round were asked the reason for abstaining. All respondents were asked about their opinion of the election campaign and advertising and whether they were going to vote in the second round of the elections, and for whom. The respondents were presented with statements about voting and the personality of the president, and they were asked to express their opinion about them. Finally, the respondents were asked which party they would vote for in parliamentary elections if the elections were held at that time, which party they had voted for in the previous parliamentary elections, and for which candidate they had voted in the previous presidential elections. Background variables included the respondent's gender, mother tongue, age, marital status, composition and income of the household, education, occupation, information on work, working hours, trade union membership, ownership of apartment, voting in elections, position on a left-right scale, social class, and dwelling place. The background variables have been updated in August 1999. The data also include a case id variable hl, which can be used to append this data to FSD1041.

本调查聚焦于芬兰2000年的总统选举。受访者在调查中被告知是否在2000年总统选举的第一轮投票中参与了投票，以及他们投给了哪位候选人。调查还询问了他们何时作出投票决定，以及媒体、广告、亲密朋友、候选人筛选器/网络投票建议应用或候选人的竞选网站如何影响他们的投票决定。此外，受访者还被呈现了一份各种事项的清单，并要求他们说明哪些事项影响了他们在第一轮选举中的候选人选择。未在第一轮投票的受访者被询问了他们不投票的原因。所有受访者均被询问了对选举活动和广告的看法，以及他们是否会在第二轮选举中进行投票，以及会为哪位候选人投票。受访者还被呈现了关于投票和总统人格的陈述，并要求他们表达对这些陈述的看法。最后，受访者还被询问，如果当时举行议会选举，他们将投票给哪个政党，他们在上一届议会选举中投票给了哪个政党，以及他们在上一届总统选举中为哪位候选人投票。背景变量包括受访者的性别、母语、年龄、婚姻状况、家庭构成和收入、教育、职业、工作信息、工作时间、工会会员资格、住宅所有权、选举投票情况、左右政治立场、社会阶层和居住地。这些背景变量于1999年8月进行了更新。数据还包括一个案例ID变量hl，可用于将此数据附加到FSD1041。