The 2013 Norwegian Sámi Parliamentary Election Study

• Main Author: Saglie, Jo
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NSD – Norwegian Centre for Research Data 2016
• Subjects: Politics; Elections; sami
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18712/nsd-nsd2302-v4; http://search.nsd.no/study/NSD2302/?version=4

The first Norwegian Sami Parliamentary Election was conducted in 2009. The survey was also conducted in 2013, and was done in cooperation with a similar study of the elections to the Swedish Sami parliament the same year, so that comparative analyses are possible. This was a voter survey; the sample was drawn among registered in the Sami Parliament's electoral roll. The questions dealt among other things with questions of disagreement between political parties, Sami Parliament legitimacy, electoral participation and voting, campaigning and voter information sources. The respondents could answer the survey by pen and paper, over the web or over the telephone. In addition to the variables from the questionnaire, the data file contains the following variables: “Samekrets”, “vekt”, “vekt valgdeltakelse”, “kommune” (only the 13 municipalities were more than 250 persons were included in the electoral register are included as separate values, whereas all other municipalities were merged into one unified category), “valgting” and “forvaltningsområdet”. The variable “kjønn” exist also as an electoral register variable, in addition to being asked in the questionnaire. The principal investigator recommends using the variable from the electoral register, because of withdrawals from the questionnaire. The variable “alder/fødselsår” exists also both as an electoral register variable and in the questionnaire. The variable from the questionnaire (question 41) is deleted to secure anonymizing of the data, while the “fødselsår” variable is grouped in broader categories. The variable “alder_kat” in the data file represent year of birth and not the age of the respondents at the time of responding. The variable for income (question 47) and the question regarding participation in the election campaign (question 12) are also grouped in broader categories in regard to anonymizing. The data file does in addition contain the encoding of 11 variables to a scale from 0 to 10. These variables have in common that they've all been encoded in two different ways in the data collection. It was used a scale from 0 to 10 in the paper/internet edition of the questionnaire. A scale from 1 to 10 was mistakenly used in the telephone questionnaire. In the encoded versions of the variables, the scale 1-10-variables (from the telephone questionnaire) are extended to scale 0-10. 1 were encoded to 0; 2 to 1,11; 3 to 2,22; ect. The initial variables are also included in the data file. This concern the following variables: “Q3_1” was encoded to «trust_Kommunestyre», “Q3_2” was encoded to “trust_Storting”, “Q3_3” was encoded to “trust_Sameting”, “Q3_4” was encoded to “trust_Regjeringen”, “Q3_5” was encoded to “trust_Domstolene”, “Q5_1” was encoded to “left_right_scale”, “Q9_1” was encoded to “trust_interpersonal”, “Q9_2” was encoded to “trust_people_in_area”, “Q9_3” was encoded to “trust_sami_more”, “Q31_1” was encoded to “belonging_local”, “Q31_2” was encoded to “belonging_Sap”.