Unique identification number of the database: survey-030

Full title of the database: Political attitudes, national self-images among the Hungarians in Transylvania – 1997.

Person responsible for archiving the datasheet: Kiss Tamás.

Datasheet publisher organization: Teleki László Institute, Budapest

Datasheet archiving: 2006-01-10.

Datasheet’s bibliographical reference: Transylvanian Social Researches Databank: survey-030: Political attitudes, national self-images among the Hungarians in Transylvania – 1997.

Research description

Research coordinator:

Kovács Éva.

Other scholars involved in the research:

Bárdi Nándor,

Misovicz Tibor,

Sorbán Angella.

Database establisher:

Teleki László Institute.

Financing institution:

Duna Television,

Teleki László Foundation.

Database depositor:

Teleki László Foundation

Database description: interest in politics; 1996 elections; the DAHR’s participation in the government; economic arrangements; attitudes towards the Hungarian-Romanian basic contract; opinion about the support of the Hungarian state for the Hungarians living outside its borders; Romanian parties, public personalities and the Hungarians; values; ethnic auto- and hetero-stereotypes; media consumption.  

Keywords:

Hungarian-Romanian basic treaty,

politics, political culture

interethnic relations

national identity

values

Data collection: May 1997.

Geographical range of database: Transylvania.

Target population: the Hungarians living in Transylvania

The unit of the analysis: person.

Type of database: survey.

The temporal dimension of the database: cross-sectional.

Sample taking procedure: 1.000 people were randomly selected from the electoral register. From this sample the data of 991 people were useful. The sample followed the regional distribution of the 1992 Romanian census data.

Data collection procedure: questionnaire

Database weighting: it is achieved without weighted variables.

Citing obligation: the data user will have to refer to the database creator (Teleki László Foundation) and the research coordinator (Kovács Éva).

Publications:

Kovács Éva – Misovicz Tibor – Bárdi Nándor: Politikai attitűdök az erdélyi magyarság körében. Regio 1998/1

Bárdi Nándor – Kovács Éva – Misovicz Tibor: Politikai attitűdök, nemzeti önképek az erdélyi magyarság körében. Magyar Kisebbség 2002/1

The description of the database

Case number: 991

Variables: 177

The format of the database: SPSS data file

Other materials connected to database:

Questionnaire

Research paper

Codes