Norwegian Election Study 2001

The Norwegian Election Research Programme was launched in the middle of the 1950's, under the direction of The Institute for Social Research. Henry Valen and Stein Rokkan were responsible for the programme. The programme cooperated with Norsk Gallup Institute A/S for sample survey data collection in the election studies covering the Storting elections in 1957, 1965, 1969 and 1973. Since 1977 the programme has cooperated with Statistics Norway (SSB) for the data collection for these studies. The election studies are intended to give statistical data for research covering elections and political processes in Norway. Since the start of the Norwegian Election Programme Professor Henry Valen has been the key administrator, but in 1985 Bernt Aardal took over as executive manager.

The 2001 survey was conducted in two parts, one survey before the election and another survey after the elcection, where the same sample was interviewed at both times. The background for this is that one wants to discover more about how the election campaign, and especially the media coverage of it, will affect the voters' preferences and behaviour. This is a merged file consisting of both the survey before and after the elecetion, with all valid units included.