Swedish Party Membership Survey 2015, prepared dataset
type: Dataset
description: At the beginning of 2015, the party secretaries of six of the Swedish parliamentary parties (plus the Feminist Initiative, which is the only party outside the Riksdag represented in the European Parliament) agreed to participate in and conduct an online survey among their party members. The study was administered by the Laboratory of Opinion Research (LORE) at the University of Gothenburg. When the survey closed on July 3, a total of 10,392 party members had responded. The response rate varies between 9.52% (Christian Democrats) and 17.59% (Social Democrats). In the spring of 2022, the data file for SPMS 2015 was reworked to enable better possibilities of sharing data upon request. This entailed recoding of two variables (year of birth and year of entry into the party), as well as removal of all variables and response alternatives with free text fields. Below is a list of recoded and deleted variables. Further information can be found in the enclosed code books. The complete dataset is available with restricted access. Recoded variables: Q1 and Q61 Removed variables: Q67_TEXT; Q28_TEXT; Q140_TEXT; Q144_TEXT; Q142_TEXT; Q17_7_TEXT; Q21_TEXT; Q23_1_TEXT_edited; Q23_1_TEXT; Q23_2_TEXT; Q44_1_TEXT; Q44_2_TEXT; Q44_3_TEXT; Q26_2_TEXT; Q26_3_TEXT; Q26_4_TEXT; Q83_7_TEXT; Q72_4_TEXT; corrected_postcode; postcode; Q134 The data is available as a STATA dataset (.dta) as well as coded comma-separated values (.csv).
citation: CreativeWork
  name: Kölln, A.-K., & Polk, J. (2017). Emancipated party members: Examining ideological incongruence within political parties. In Party Politics (Vol. 23, Issue 1, pp. 18–29). https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068816655566
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creator: Ann-Kristin Kölln
creator: Jonathan Polk
date modified: 2025-05-15
date published: 2024-09-11
funding: Partimedlemmar i Sverige / Party Members in Sweden
  type: Grant
  description: Performed as a part of the 2014 Royal Commission of Democracy (Ju 2014:19)
  funder: Ministry of Justice
language: English
language: Swedish
is part of: https://doi.org/10.5878/q92d-2d76
keywords: Political behaviour and attitudes
keywords: Political Science (Excluding Peace and Conflict Studies)
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  term code: 50601
publisher: University of Gothenburg
size: QuantitativeValue
  unit text: cases
  value: 10392
size: QuantitativeValue
  unit text: variables
  value: 392
spatial coverage: Sweden
temporal coverage: 2015-05-01/2015-07-03
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Ann-Kristin Kölln
type: Person
affiliation: University of Gothenburg
family name: Kölln
given name: Ann-Kristin

University of Gothenburg
type: Organization
department: Department of Political Science

Jonathan Polk
type: Person
affiliation: Lund University
family name: Polk
given name: Jonathan

Lund University
type: Organization
department: Department of Political Science

Ministry of Justice
type: Organization

English
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alternate name: eng

Swedish
type: Language
alternate name: swe

Political behaviour and attitudes
type: DefinedTerm
description: Data on party political attitudes, political engagement and participation in the political process, voting behaviour, satisfaction with government. Use note: For data on specific political doctrines, use 'Political ideology'.
term code: Politics.PoliticalBehaviourAndAttitudes

POLITICS
type: DefinedTerm

MEMBERSHIP
type: DefinedTerm

DEMOCRACY
type: DefinedTerm

PARTY POLITICS
type: DefinedTerm
description: POLITICS BASED ON THE STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES OF A POLITICAL PARTY

POLITICAL PARTIES
type: DefinedTerm

Sweden
type: Place