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VALU 1991 - SVT exit poll survey parliamentary election 1991

VALU91
https://doi.org/10.5878/001520
In connection with the elections in 1991 the first Swedish exit poll survey was carried out. Voters leaving the polling stations were asked to fill in a questionnaire with questions on: party voted for in the general and local elections; party voted for in the general election 1988; time for decision how to vote; placement on a political left-right scale; confidence in Swedish politicians; occupational group and union membership; prime minister if a bourgeois government; church attendance. The respondents also had to indicate how important a number of issues were for the decision how to vote. Purpose: Provide analytical support for the election night broadcast on Swedish television during the election night, and for other post-election analysis.
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Creator/Principal investigator(s):

  • Per Näsman - Royal Institute of Technology - Division of Safety Research
  • Hans Hernborn - Sveriges Television
  • Sören Holmberg - University of Gothenburg - Department of Political Science
  • Torbjörn Thedéen - Royal Institute of Technology - Division of Safety Research

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Swedish electorate

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Description of sampling:

With the help of statistics concerning completed postal voting in the 1988 election (Nils Johnson and Johan Weine), 10 post offices were selected to be included in VALU-91. At the selected post offices, those who voted by mail during a morning and an afternoon shift on the Thursday and Friday before election day were asked to fill in the survey. The morning session was three hours and the afternoon session one hour. The starting point for each session was chosen randomly. On election day, VALU-91 was carried out at 26 polling stations. This corresponded to 31 electoral districts. The electoral districts were distributed among the various regions in accordance with the size of the regions in terms of the number of eligible voters. This means, for example, that fewer electoral districts were selected in the two Norrland regions than in the other regions. Within each region, the constituencies that were to be included in VALU-91 were chosen by random stratified sampling (stratified by size and geographical location within the region). In this way, 26 electoral districts were selected. For each electoral district, a morning session of 2 hours and an afternoon session of 1 hour were then selected. The starting point of the session was chosen randomly.

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33

Number of individuals/objects:

2729

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Data collection Self-administered questionnaire

Mode of collection:

Self-administered questionnaire

Time period(s) for data collection:

1991-09-12 - 1991-09-15

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  • Sveriges Television

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  • Population group

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Structured questionnaire

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Publications

Citation:

Arndt, C. (2013). The Electoral Consequences of Third Way Welfare State Reforms: Social Democracy's Transformation and its Political Costs. Amsterdam University Press.

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  • ISBN:

    978-90-8964-450-3

Citation:

Hernborn, Hans, Holmberg, Sören & Näsman, Per (2006). Valu i allmänhetens tjänst. Stockholm: Sveriges television (SVT)

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Citation:

Hernborn, Hans (2002). Valu : Swedish exit polls. Stockholm: Sveriges television (SVT)

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Hernborn, Hans, Holmberg, Sören, Näsman, Per, & Thedéen, Torbjörn (2003) Valu : Sveriges Televisions vallokalsundersökningar. Stockholm: SVT.

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