The municipal and county council survey (KOLFU) 2008

KOLFU is a survey addressed to all members of Sweden's 20 county councils and 290 municipal councils (a total of about 13 500 people). KOLFU was conducted for the first time in 2008-2009 (KOLFU 2008). The actual number of respondents was 9 890.

KOLFU 2008 was conducted by a research team at the University of Gothenburg, while the company Detector AB was responsible for the fieldwork. The survey was conducted as part of the project "Politiker tycker om demokrati". The research team consisted of Mikael Gilljam (project manager), David Karlsson and Anders Sundell. KOLFU includes questions on the representatives' social background, their opinions on political issues, their view on the rules of democracy and the political process in their own municipality and county council.

The results from KOLFU 2008 are presented in the book "Politik på hemmaplan. Tiotusen fullmäktigeledamöter tycker om politik och demokrati" (Gilljam, et al., 2010a), among others.

Purpose:

The municipal and county council survey (KOLFU) 2008 aims to study Swedish local and regional political representatives' attitudes on democracy and politics.

KOLFU是一项面向瑞典20个郡议会与290个市镇议会全体成员的调研项目，总覆盖约13500名人员。KOLFU首次开展于2008-2009年（即KOLFU 2008），有效受访者共计9890人。

KOLFU 2008由哥德堡大学（University of Gothenburg）的研究团队主导执行，实地调研工作由Detector AB公司负责。本次调研作为“Politiker tycker om demokrati”（中文译：政客心系民主）项目的一部分开展。研究团队由米凯尔·吉尔雅姆（Mikael Gilljam，项目负责人）、大卫·卡尔松（David Karlsson）与安德斯·桑德尔（Anders Sundell）组成。KOLFU调研涵盖的议题包括：政治代表的社会背景、对各类政治议题的观点、对自身所属市镇及郡议会的民主规则与政治进程的看法。

KOLFU 2008的调研成果除其他出版物外，已收录于专著《Politik på hemmaplan. Tiotusen fullmäktigeledamöter tycker om politik och demokrati》（中文译：《本土政治：万名议员论政治与民主》，Gilljam等，2010a）。

调研目标：
2008年版KOLFU（市镇与郡议会调研）旨在探究瑞典地方与区域政治代表对民主与政治的态度。