The identification number of the database: survey-019

Full title of the database: Interethnic relations in the Carpathian Basin 1997. Hungarian database.

Person responsible for archiving the datasheet: Kiss Tamás

Datasheet publisher organization: CCRIT

Datasheet archiving date: 2006-01-14

Datasheet’s bibliographical reference:  Transylvanian Social Researches Databank: survey-019, Inter-ethnic relations in the Carpathian basin 1997. Transylvanian Hungarian database.

Research description

Research coordinator:

Csepeli György,
      
Horváth István,

Marius Lazăr.

Other scholars involved in the research:

Budapest: Örkény Antal, Székelyi Mária;

Cluj-Napoca: Irina Culic, Magyari Nándor László.

The institute conducting the research:

ELTE-UNESCO Department for Minority Research,

CCRIT.

Financing institution:

Phare,

Ministry of Education.

Database depositor:

CCRIT.

The description of the database:

Social and political content of consciousness – fears, anomie, injustice - experiences, satisfaction, perception of homeland situation, Euro-Atlantic integration expectations, authoritarianism, prestige-concept-mindedness. National identity – nationalism, political and cultural national identity, ethnocentrism, national auto- and hetero stereotypes, morality. Majority – minority relations – social distance (Bogardus-scale), xenophobia, network of social connections, conflicts.

Data collection:
October-November 1997.

Place of questioning: Transylvania.

The unit of the analysis: persons.

Type of the database: survey.

The temporal dimension of the database: cross-sectional.

Sample taking procedure:

multi-scale, layered sampling. First the settlements were grouped according to their ethnical structure. Accordingly, 3 types were elaborated: with Hungarian majority, parity and with Romanian majority. Researchers took sample from every settlement type, taking in consideration the size of the settlement too. The samples were taken with the “Leslie Kish pattern”, where Hungarians and Romanians were treated as separate sampling units. The Romanian data survey has two sub-samples: the data file of the Transylvanian Hungarians and the data file of  Transylvanian Romanians.

Data collection procedure: questionnaire.

Database weighting: the database was archived without a weight-variable

Citing obligation: the data user must refer to database creators (ELTE UNESC Department for minority research, CCRIT).

NOTE: the database has Romanian labels

the description of the database:
case number: 1094.
Variable number: 664.

The format of the database: SPSS

other material related to the database:
Hungarian questionnaire.

Keywords:
interethnic relations
national identity
politics, political culture
migration, emigrational potential