Unique identification number of the database: survey-029

Full title of the database: The population of Covasna and Harghita counties. Aspects of interethnic coexistence (2000). 

Person responsible for archiving the datasheet: Kiss Tamás.

Datasheet publisher organization: CCRIT (Research Center on Inter-ethnic Relations)

Datasheet archiving date: 2006-01-14.

Datasheet’s bibliographical reference: Transylvanian Social Researches Databank, survey-029: The population of Covasna and Harghita counties. Aspects of interethnic coexistence (2000). 

Research description

Scholars involved in the research:

Horváth István,

Marius Lazăr.

Irina Culic,

Raţ Cristina

Toma Stefánia

Datasheet creator:

CCRIT (Research Center on Inter-ethnic Relations) 

Financing institution:

Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center.

Database depositor:

CCRIT.

Data collection: June-July 2000.

Geographical range of database: Harghita and Covasna counties.

The unit of the analysis: person.

Target population: the Romanian inhabitants of Covasna and Harghita counties

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: the Hungarian population of Harghita and Covasna counties (650), and the Hungarian population of Romania (632). The settlements have been placed into clusters according to their size, administrative status, ethnical composition, and random samples were selected from the clusters.

Data collection procedure: questionnaire

Database weighting: the database was achieved with weighted variables. This means that the Hungarian and Romanians from the two counties are represented according to their real proportion (18 %). In this form the database is representative for the whole population of Covasna and Harghita counties. By choosing the esantion variable one can select the Hungarian and Romanian respondents.

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

The description of the database:

Case number: 1282.

Variables: 326.

The format of the database: SPSS data file

Other materials connected to database:

Hungarian questionnaire

Research paper (in Romanian language)