Survey of Peoples' Attitudes Towards Their Municipality, 1996

This is a project that was carried through by SSB on assignment from the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. The aim of the survey was to illuminate the relationships between individuals and their municipality. The survey grasps three sides of individual relations to the municipality - the individual as consumer, payer and citizen.

A similar survey was carried through in 1993. The sample from 1993 has been used as a basis for drawing the sample for the 1996-survey, so that a considerable portion of the sample constitute a panel.

The data collection was carried through in two phases, in which the first phase was carried through by telephone interviews and the second phase was by postal questionnaires. Variables 1-153 are from the telephone phone part of the survey while the variables 154-398 are from the postal part.

The data material should create opportunities for analyzing the consequences of various municipal sizes. Hence, the sample has been stratified in accordance with municipal size. In order to achieve a sufficiently large number of respondents within each municipal size it has been drawn about as many respondents from each size category. The material is representative if one analyzes the various stratums individually or compares them, but if one is to merge the various stratums one has to weigh the material because the various stratums have different sizes in the Norwegian population.

本项目由挪威中央统计局（SSB）受奥斯陆大学政治科学系委托执行。本次调查旨在厘清个体与其所在市镇的关联关系，涵盖个体作为消费者、纳税人与公民三种身份与市镇的互动维度。1993年曾开展过同类调查，1993年的调查样本被用作1996年本次调查的抽样基准，因此本次样本中有相当比例属于面板样本。本次数据采集分为两个阶段：第一阶段采用电话访谈方式，第二阶段采用邮寄问卷方式。其中变量1至153来自电话访谈部分，变量154至398来自邮寄问卷部分。本数据集旨在为分析不同市镇规模带来的各类影响提供研究契机，因此本次调查按照市镇规模进行分层抽样。为确保各规模层级内拥有足够的受访者数量，每个规模类别均抽取了大致相当的样本量。若仅针对各分层层级单独开展分析或进行层级间比较，本数据集具备代表性；但若需合并所有分层层级开展研究，则需对数据进行加权处理，因为挪威人口中各分层层级的规模存在差异。