Unique identification number of the database: survey-025

Full title of the database: Timişoara and Timiş county 2004. Public life and general conditions.

Person responsible for archiving the datasheet: Kiss Tamás.

Datasheet publisher organization: Max Weber Sociological Centre

Datasheet archiving date: 2006-01-04

Datasheet’s bibliographical reference: Transylvanian Social Researches Databank: survey 025,Timişoara and Timiş county 2004. Public life and general conditions. 

Research description

Research coordinator:

Kiss Tamás

Csata Zsombor

Kiss Dénes

Datasheet creator:

Max Weber Sociological Centre

Research financer:

Timiş County DAHR

Database depositor:

Max Weber Sociological Centre.

Database description: general conditions, migration, ethnic conflict-perception, social network, value-scale (modified version of the Rokeach test), ethnic auto- and hetero-stereotypes, elements of national belonging, religiousness, political interests, aspects influencing party preferences, effects of campaign tools, voter intentions at the 2004 local and parliamentary elections, voter intentions, trust in political parties, DAHR, expectations from the DAHR, local and national politician profile, political scale (self, DAHR), local and national problems, attitudes towards autonomy, media consumption, language use.

Keywords:

politics

Party options, election

Interethnic relations

National identity

migration

Data collection: September 2004

Geographical range of database: Temis County

The unit of the analysis: person.

Target population: the Hungarian voters (18 years old or above) of Timis county.

Type of database: survey.

The temporal dimension of the database: cross-sectional.

Sample taking procedure: multi-scale, layered sampling. In the case of Timişoara the voting registers constituted the starting point: from there we selected a 26.000 case sample frame consisting of the seemingly Hungarian names  (according to the first and last names). The questioners had to interview only the people appearing in the lists. In Timis County we considered the town/village proportion and the ethnic distribution of the settlement. In those settlements where the proportion of Hungarians was at least 40%, the questioners followed a scale, while in the settlements with Hungarian population between 10-40% they had specific lists. In the case of the settlements with Hungarian population below 10% the questioners had to interview everyone.

Data collection procedure: questionnaire

Database weighting: the database is weighted by age, settlement, settlement type and the homogeneity/heterogeneity of marriage (suly3 variable). We had to lower weight the homogenous marriages (see research paper). The archived version is representative of Timis county. By selecting the specific data it will be representative of Timisoara as well.

Citing obligation: the data user will have to refer to the database creators Max Weber Sociological Centre

The description of the database

Case number: 1048 questionnaires, but in weighted form 671.

Variables: 504. – we deleted the opinion-data about the different politicians from the database

The format of the database: SPSS data file

Observation: some of the string variables were not codified

Other materials connected to database:

Questionnaire

Research paper