On the basis of a government decision, Statistics Sweden conducts a party preference survey to shed light on the current situation for political opinions in the country. The survey has been conducted every year in May and November since 1972. The public's attitudes towards the EU have been included since 1992, while attitudes towards the EMU/euro have been a part of this survey since 1997.
A sample of about 9 000 persons are interviewed by telephone for each survey round. Statistically scientific methods and the size of the sample guarantee high quality in the reported estimations.
For each survey round party preferences are presented according to sex, age, civil status, number of children, income, region, socio-economic background, employment status, sector, trade union membership, type of housing, degree of density, level of education and foreign/Swedish background. In addition, estimations are made of election results "if an election were held today" and net flows between surveys. |
