Unique identification number of the database: survey-020

Full title of the database: Ethno barometer 2000. Interethnic relations in Romania. 

Person responsible for archiving the datasheet: Kiss Tamás.

Datasheet archiving date: 2006-01-14.

Datasheet’s bibliographical reference: Transylvanian Social Researches Databank, survey-020: Ethno barometer 2000. Interethnic relations in Romania

Research description

Research coordinator:

Horváth István

Marius Lazăr

Other scholars involved in the research:

Irina Culic

Raţ Cristina

Datasheet creator:

CCRIT (Research Center on Inter-ethnic Relations)

Financing institution:

United States Agency for International Development

Database depositor:

CCRIT.

Database description: language usage; command of languages; criteria for belonging to a nation; ethnic origin; ethnic auto- and hetero-stereotypes; attitudes towards a Hungarian University; societal distance-scale; ethnocentrism; expectations from the Romanian and Hungarian sate; the perception of conflict; geopolitical representations; migration intentions; media consumption; cultural consumption; NGO membership; political value scale.

Keywords:

Interethnic relations

national identity

migration

Data collection: May 2000

Geographical range of database: Transylvania.

The unit of the analysis: person.

Target population: inhabitants of Romania, the Hungarian inhabitants of Romania.

Type of database: survey.

The temporal dimension of the database: cross-sectional.

Sample taking procedure: multi-scale, layered sampling. The whole sample consisted of two sample-parts: total population of Romania (1253), and the Hungarian population of Romania (798). In the Romanian sample the Romanian population living in Covasna and Harghita counties was overrepresented (287 persons in the national sample against the justified 5 persons). The settlements were selected according to economic-cultural regions (Transylvania, Northwest, Banat, Moldova, Wallachia, Dobrudja, Bucharest), other characteristics of the settlements (size and administrative status). Ethnic proportions were also considered.

Data collection procedure: questionnaire.

Database weighting: the database was archived with weighted variables. This means that the Hungarian and Romanians living in Szeklerland are represented according to their real percentage (0,5, and 7,6 percent). The database is representative of the whole Romania. By choosing the esantion variable one can select the Hungarian respondents only.

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

Related publications:

The description of the database

Case number: 2051

Variable: 397

The format of the database: SPSS data file

Other materials connected to database:

Hungarian questionnaire

Research paper (in Romanian)

https://www.edrc.ro/docs/docs/Etnobarometru.pdf