Swedish Party Membership Survey 2019, complete dataset
https://doi.org/10.5878/6fyg-j462
In 2018, representatives from all Swedish parliamentary parties (plus the Feminist Initiative) agreed to take part in conducting an online survey among their party members. The questions are similar to those asked in the Swedish party membership survey in 2015. The survey was administered by the Laboratory of Opinion Research (LORE) at the University of Gothenburg.
At the end of the fieldwork period in the beginning of May 2019, a total of 20,605 party members had responded. The response rate varies between 9.4 percent (Feminist Initiative) and 29.9 percent (Christian Democrats).
In spring 2022, the data file for SPMS 2019 was reworked to enable better possibilities of sharing data upon request. This entailed the recoding of two variables (year of birth and year of entry into the party), as well as the removal of all variables and response alternatives with free text fields and postcode information. This is the complete dataset with restricted access.
The data is available as a STATA dataset (.dta) as well as coded comma-separated values (.csv).
Documentation files
Documentation files
Citation and access
Citation and access
Data access level:
Creator/Principal investigator(s):
Research principal:
Data contains personal data:
Yes
Type of personal data:
Indirect identifiers (year member; year of birth; open text fields). Contains public and political opinion.
Sensitive personal data:
Yes
Citation:
Method and outcome
Method and outcome
Unit of analysis:
Population:
Registered party members
Time method:
Sampling procedure:
Description of sampling:
In January 2019, the party secretaries received a link to the survey that was party-specific, but not person-specific. The parties sent out the link to the survey to all party members whose e-mail address they had access to via their own newsletters or e-mail lists. Only the Social Democrats chose to send the survey to a representative sample of the party's members (n = 6500). The Sweden Democrats could not find a way to send the survey to their members before all surveys were closed and are thus not included in the final product.
The gross sample size is 117,381 party members (L = 15,636; Mp = 10,719; S = 6,500; V =23,260; KD = 13,000; M =25,200; Fi = 6,000; C = 17,066)
Time period(s) investigated:
Variables:
328
Number of individuals/objects:
20605
Data collection - Självadministrerat frågeformulär: webbaserat
Data collection - Självadministrerat frågeformulär: webbaserat
Mode of collection:
Självadministrerat frågeformulär: webbaserat
Time period(s) for data collection:
2019-01-29 - 2019-05-03
Data collector:
- Göteborgs universitet
Öppnar nytt fönster hos ror.org.
ROR
Number of responses:
20605
Source of the data:
- Befolkningsgrupp
Geographic coverage
Geographic coverage
Geographic location:
Geographic description:
The survey covered the entire country of Sweden.
Lowest geographic unit:
Constituency
Highest geographic unit:
Country
Administrative information
Administrative information
Responsible department/unit:
Department of Political Science
Ethical Review
Ethical Review
Reviewer:
- Etikprövningsnämnd
Registration number:
1013-18
Funding
Funding
Funding agency:
- Vetenskapsrådet
Öppnar nytt fönster hos ror.org.
ROR
Award number:
2016-01810
Award title:
Political Party Member Responses to Organizational Change: Exit, Voice , and Loyalty
Topic and keywords
Topic and keywords
CESSDA topic classification:
Swedish Standard Classification of Research Subjects 2025:
Relations
Relations
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Är en fortsättning av:
Related research data:
Publications
Publications
Citation:
Evertsson, Kajsa, Kölln, Ann-Kristin & Polk, Jonathan (2019). Svenska partimedlemsundersökningen 2019. Valforskningsprogrammets rapportserie 2019:4. Göteborgs universitet: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.
Citation:
Polk, J., & Kölln, A.-K. (2018). Electoral infidelity: Why party members cast defecting votes. In European Journal of Political Research (Vol. 57, Issue 2, pp. 539–560). https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12238
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Metadata
Metadata
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