Follow-up on Finnish European Parliament Elections 1999

The survey studied election advertising in the Finnish European Parliamentary elections, and factors affecting voting behaviour. The survey was conducted as part of the "Changes in Finnish TV Election Campaigns" project. The respondents were asked whether they had seen election advertisements and television advertising, and if they had, for which party. The respondents were asked to evaluate the advertisements. They were also asked if they had voted, and which party they had voted for in the European Parliamentary elections and in the previous parliamentary elections. In addition, the respondents were asked for which party's candidate they would vote if elections were held at the time of the survey, and at what stage the respondents had made the decision to vote. In this study, the aim was to canvass how important certain issues were in determining the respondents' voting decisions, and whether the voting decision was more determined by the candidate's party or the candidate him/herself. Information sources used to support the respondents' voting decisions were surveyed. Non-voters were asked the reason for abstaining. Background variables included the respondent's gender, age group, year of birth, marital status, mother tongue, basic education, vocational education, working hours, industry of employment, employer type, trade union membership, household composition, economic activity of the household head, number of children aged under 21, household gross income, the respondent's self-perceived social class, political left-right self-placement, and which political party the respondent had voted for in the elections.

本调查针对芬兰欧洲议会选举中的选举广告及其影响投票行为的因素进行了研究。该调查是“芬兰电视选举宣传活动变迁”项目的一部分。受访者在调查中被告知是否观看了选举广告和电视广告，若观看，则询问其观看的是哪个政党的广告。受访者还被要求对广告进行评价。同时，调查询问受访者是否参与了投票，以及在欧洲议会选举和上一次议会选举中支持了哪个政党。此外，受访者还被问及，若在调查时进行选举，他们将投票给哪个政党的候选人，以及他们做出投票决定的具体阶段。本研究旨在探讨某些议题在决定受访者投票决策中的重要性，以及投票决策更多是受候选人所属政党的影响，还是候选人本人影响更大。调查还调查了支持受访者投票决策的信息来源。对于未投票者，询问其未投票的原因。背景变量包括受访者的性别、年龄组、出生年份、婚姻状况、母语、基础教育、职业教育、工作时间、就业行业、雇主类型、工会会员资格、家庭构成、户主的经济活动、21岁以下子女数量、家庭总收入、受访者自我感知的社会阶层、政治左右自我定位，以及受访者曾在选举中投票给哪个政党。