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Sifos Election Poll
Pre-Election
Polls and Election Outcome
Deviation from Trend (Margin of Error)
Deviation from Sampling Plan (Nonresponse)
TABLES
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Sifo's election polls, 1967--78. Party ranking expressed as percentages of interviewees with party sympathies 1
Note on upper age limit in the election poll 3
Party ranking in Sifo's election polls, 1967-78, expressed as trend values. Henderson's weighting of a nine-month trend cycle 4
Computer graph of party ranking, 1967-78, expressed as trend values 7
Computer graph of percentage support for The Right Party/Moderate Party and its deviation from trend, 1967-78 9
Computer graph of percentage support for Liberal Party and its deviation from trend, 1967-78 11
Computer graph of percentage support for Center Party and its deviation from trend, 1967-78 13
Computer graph of percentage support for Social Democratic Party and its deviation from trend, 1967-78 15
Computer graph of percentage support for Left Party Communists, 1967-78 and its deviation from trend 17
Sifo's election poll: deviations from party trends, 1967-78, expressed as percentages 19
Summary 21
No answers ("don't know"), nonresponse (no interview) and number of interviewees in Sifo's election poll, 1967-78 22
Note on use of substitutes in the event of nonresponse, 1967-72 24
Computer graph of nonresponse trend, 1972-78 25
Regression of the effects of nonresponse on Moderate Party's share in the election poll, 1972-76 26-27
Regression of the effects of nonresponse on Liberal Party's share in the election poll, 1972-76 28-29
Regression of the effects of nonresponse on Center Party's share in the election poll, 1972-76 30-31
Regression of the effects of nonresponse on Social Democratic Party's share in the election poll, 1972-76 32-33
Regression of the effects of nonresponse on Left Party Communists' share in the election poll, 1972-76 34-35
QUESTIONNAIRE
Cover of to questionnaire in Sifo's weekly omnibus. The interviewer receives the cover in advance,
before the questionnaire for the week is distributed, and uses it to book interviews and report on
attempts to contact, and nonresponse of, prospective interviewees 36-38
Questionnaire and ballot-papers for Sifo's election poll 39