Unique identification number of the database: survey-022

Full title of the database: Oradea and Bihor 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: 2006-01-11

Datasheet’s bibliographical reference: Transylvanian Social Researches Databank: survey-022: Oradea and Bihor 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:

Bihor county DAHR, DAHR Executive Presidency

Database depositor:

DAHR Executive Presidency.

Database description: general conditions, local problems, trust in institutions, attitudes towards the local council and their decisions, media consumption; religiousness; NGO membership; migration, voter intentions at the 2004 local and parliamentary elections, mayor profile, the attitudes towards the EMNT and MPSZ.

Keywords:

politics

Party options, election

migration, migration potential

Data collection: April 2004

Geographical range of database: Bihor County

The unit of the analysis: person.

Target population: the Hungarian voters (18 years old or above) of Oradea and Bihor County.

Type of database: survey.

The temporal dimension of the database: cross-sectional.

Sample taking procedure: multi-scale, layered sampling. In Oradea there were combined election districts and the questionnaires were applied in these districts proportionally. We chose different streets and the questioners followed a specific scale.  In Bihor County we considered the town/village ratio and the ethnic distribution of the settlements.

Data collection procedure: questionnaire

Database weighting: the cases from Oradea are weighted (667) so in the ‘Bihor County sample’ they are represented proportionally. The archived database is representative of Bihor county.

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

The description of the database

Case number: 1325 questionnaires, but in weighted form 1018.

Variables: 307. – we deleted the opinion-data about the different politicians from the database

The format of the database: SPSS data file

Other materials connected to database:

Questionnaire

Research paper