The Regional Western Sweden SOM Survey 2024

The Regional Western Sweden SOM Survey has been conducted yearly since 1992, but was initially limited to residents of Gothenburg and its surrounding municipalities. In 1998, the survey was extended to include the entire Västra Götaland County plus the municipality of Kungsbacka. The purpose of the regional surveys is to enable SOM researchers to study attitudes and behaviour linked to local and regional issues. They emphasise public services and media, although many of the questions are identical with those used in National SOM in order to make the answers comparable both between the regions and with Sweden at large. The dataset has been modified slightly in relation to the codebook in order to reduce the risk of backdoor identification. The following changes have been made: Removed variables: mtidn1, komprob_txt, regprob_txt, anparti, angrupp, ankom, ansex, kommun, f72, so, sdn, mellanomr20, mellanomr. Added variables: samhällsgrupp. Aggregated variables: f64c. The SOM Institute also has an online tool for data analysis, where you can work with data from the national SOM surveys directly in your web browser. You can find it at https://som-institutet.se/dataanalysOpens in a new tab