The Research Databank on Romanian Minorities

Hungarians living in Romania 1999


Unique identification number of the database: survey-017

Full title of the database: Hungarians living in Romania (1999).

Person responsible for archiving the datasheet: Kiss Tamás.

Datasheet archiving date: 2006-01-11.

Datasheet’s bibliographical reference: Transylvanian Social Researches Databank survey-017, Hungarians living in Romania (1999).

Research description

Research coordinator:

Horváth István

Marius Lazăr

Datasheet creator:

CCRIT (Research Center on Inter-ethnic Relations) 

Research financer:

DAHR Executive Presidency.

Database depositor:

CCRIT.

Database description: general conditions; local problems; trust in institutions; trust in political parties; political scale (self, DAHR); political scale of values; sensibility to problems; administration; migration; stereotypes of Hungarians from Hungary; politician profile; the DAHR presence in government; attitudes towards the Bolyai University; relations with the DAHR; NGO membership; data sheet of the settlement.

Keywords:

Party options, election

DAHR

politics

migration, migration potential

Data collection: The data had been collected between 16 and 28 February 1999. Two deceits were discovered during control, so additional data collection took place between 5 and 15 of March 1999.

Geographical range of database: Transylvania.

The unit of the analysis: person.

Target population: Hungarian voters (18 years old or above) of Transylvania.

Type of database: survey.

Temporal dimension of the database: cross-sectional.

Sampletaking procedure: multi-scale, layered sampling. The 1992 census data on 16 Transylvanian counties constituted the starting point, which was partially completed with data from 1995, by taking into consideration the settlements’ ethnic and age distribution, as well as the town /village ratio. The settlements can be grouped according to the following criteria: ethnical dominance, the settlement’s administrative status, town/village environment, historical-geographical and territorial distribution.

Data collection procedure: questionnaire

Database weighting: archived without weighted variables.

Citing obligation: the data user will have to refer to the database creators (CCRIT).

Database description

Case number: 743.

Variable: 174we deleted the opinion-data about the different politicians from the database

Database format: SPSS data file

Other materials connected to database:

Questionnaire

Research paper