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Media panel 1976/77 - V61-9

https://doi.org/10.5878/vzax-1b71
The Media Panel Program (MPP) is located at the University of Lund in Sweden. It is a long-term research program focused on basic aspects of the mass media use by Swedish children, adolescents and young adults, as well as on the causes, consequences and effects of that media use. The program was founded by professors Karl Erik Rosengren and Sven Windahl in 1975, after a series of preliminary studies. Since 1995, the program has been directed by professor Ulla Johnsson-Smaragdi. Data have been collected in Malmö (an industrial city in southern Sweden; some 230 000 inhabitants) and Växjö (a college and cathedral town in southern Sweden; some 60 000 inhabitants). The techniques used for data collection include mail and classroom questionnaires, personal interviews, essays written by school children at school, archival data, focused interviews, and long, in-depth conversations with a small number of type-representative individuals. For children and adolescents in grade 3-9 (age 10 to 16) in the compulsory school system, class room questionnaires were used. For older adolescents and young adults, as well as for parents, mail questionnaires were used. School grades and similar data were culled from school archives. During a long period of continuous research the MPP group has produced a data bank in which a large mass of data related to individual media use, its causes, effects and consequences are stored, covering a number of cohorts and panels of children and adolescents passing through the school system and into work or continued studies during their early adulthood. In all, the bank contains data about: some 5 000 children, adolescents and young adults; their family background, activities and relations; their relations to peers and their school experiences (including school grades etc.); their media use, life styles, present occupation and activities, as well as their plans for the future. Relevant data from their parents have also been collected on several occasions. Year of data collection 1976/1977. Cohort: Växjö, born in 1961, grade 9
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Creator/​Principal investigator(s):

  • Karl Erik Rosengren - Lund University - Department of Sociology
  • Sven Windahl - Växjö University - School of Social Sciences
  • Ulla Johnsson-Smaragdi - Lund University - Media and Communication Studies
  • Ingrid Höjerback - Lund University - Media and Communication Studies
  • Inga Sonesson - Lund University - Media and Communication Studies

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Data contains personal data:

No

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Method and outcome

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Variables:

485

Number of individuals/​objects:

244

Data format/​data structure:

Data collection Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Mode of collection:

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Description of the mode of collection:

Barnen hade att besvara två delformulär, vilka var och en beräknades ta en lektionstimme i anspråk. Insamlingen lades upp på så sätt att alla barnen i en första insamlingsomgång fick besvara del I. Denna del tog de två första veckorna i anspråk. Därefter började en ny insamlingsomgång med del II, vilken genomfördes under 3:e och 4:e insamlingsveckorna. Postenkäten till föräldrarna skickades ut i två omgångar. Tillsammans med formuläret fanns även ett informationsbrev om undersökningen och att de och deras barn skulle medverka. Formulären sändes så att föräldrarna skulle få dem på lördagen före den vecka då deras barn första gången deltog i enkätinsamlingen i skolan. Ungefär hälften av postenkäterna skickades ut i en första omgång. Under den följande veckan gjordes resterande enkäter klara och sändes iväg på fredagen. Föräldrarna fick på så vis informationsbrevet om enkäten och sitt formulär strax innan deras barn deltog i enkäten.

Time period(s) for data collection:

1976-10 - 1976-11

Data collector:

  • Lund University, Department of Sociology

Source of the data:

  • Population group

Geographic coverage

Geographic location:

Geographic description:

Växjö, Malmö

Administrative information

Responsible department/​unit:

Department of Sociology

Funding

Funding agency:

  • Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research

Funding agency:

  • Swedish Council for Research in the Humanitie and Social Sciences

Funding agency:

  • Swedish Council for Social Research

Funding agency:

  • National Swedish Board of Education

Funding agency:

  • Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation

Topic and keywords

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Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2025:

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Relations

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Publications

Citation:

Johnsson-Smaragdi, U. (1978) Grundskolepanelen. Arbetsrapport. Lund: Kommunikationssociologi.

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Johnsson-Smaragdi, U. (1978) Grundskolepanelen. Work report. Lund: Kommunikationssociologi.

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Johnsson-Smaragdi, U. (1978) Grundskolepanelen. Internal report. Lund: Kommunikationssociologi.

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Rosengren, K.E., & Windahl, S. (1978) Media Panel. A Presentation of a Program. Lund: Kommunikationssociologi.

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Citation:

Sonesson, I. (1979) Förskolebarn och TV. (Avhandling). Lund: Kommunikationssociologi.

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  • ISBN:

    9789124295844

Citation:

Sonesson, I. (1979) TV-vanor och TV-relationer hos förskolebarn med sociala och personliga problem. Lund: Kommunikationssociologi.

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