The municipal and county council survey (KOLFU) 2008

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Mikael Gilljam - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science

David Karlsson - University of Gothenburg, School of Public Administration

Anders Sundell - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Description

KOLFU is a survey addressed to all members of Sweden's 20 county councils and 290 municipal councils (a total of about 13 500 people). KOLFU was conducted for the first time in 2008-2009 (KOLFU 2008). The actual number of respondents was 9 890.

KOLFU 2008 was conducted by a research team at the University of Gothenburg, while the company Detector AB was responsible for the fieldwork. The survey was conducted as part of the project "Politiker tycker om demokrati". The research team consisted of Mikael Gilljam (project manager), David Karlsson and Anders Sundell. KOLFU includes questions on the representatives' social background, their opinions on political issues, their view on the rules of democracy and the political process in their own municipality and county council.

The results from KOLFU 2008 are presented in the book "Politik på hemmaplan. Tiotusen fullmäktigeledamöter tycker om politik och demokrati" (Gilljam, et al., 2010a), among others.

Purpose:

The municipal and county council survey (KOLFU) 2008 aims to study Swedish local and regional political representatives' attitudes on de

Language

Swedish

Method and outcome

Unit of analysis

Individual

Population

Members of the Swedish municipal and county councils

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Time period(s) investigated

2008 – 2009

Variables

260

Number of individuals/objects

9890

Response rate/participation rate

69%

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Data collection

Mode of collection: Interview
Description of the mode of collection:
KOLFU is a survey addressed to all members of Sweden's 20 counties and 290 municipalities (a total of about 13 500 people). KOLFU was conducted for the first time in 2008-2009 (KOLFU 2008). The actual number of respondents was 9 890.
KOLFU 2008 was conducted by a research team at the University of Gothenburg, while the company Detector AB was responsible for the fieldwork. The survey was conducted as part of the project ""Politiker tycker om demokrati"". The research team consisted of Mikael Gilljam (project manager), David Karlsson and Anders Sundell. KOLFU includes questions on the representatives' social background, their opinions on political issues, their view on the rules of democracy and the political process in their own municipality and county council.
Time period(s) for data collection: 2008 – 2009
Data collector: Detector Corp.
Sample size: 13500
Number of responses: 9890
Source of the data: Population group

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Geographic description: Swedish municipalities and counties

Lowest geographic unit

Country

Highest geographic unit

Country

Administrative information

Funding

Funding agency: Swedish Research Council
Funding agency's reference number: 421-2005-1350

Topic and keywords

Research area

Politics (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Social sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Political science (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Keywords

Local government policy, Political behaviour, Democracy, Internal politics, Political representation, Political parties, Regional policy, Politicians, Representative democracy

Publications

Published: 2015-11-26

Last updated: 2020-01-17