Participation in politics

Changed on: 03/02/2010 02:00

Participation in politics
Personal characteristics	Periods	Favourite political party Socialist Party (%)	Voting behaviour Socialist Party (% of the voters)	Values Social security Extremely important (%)	Values Social security Very important (%)	Values Social security Important (%)	Values Social security Not sure (%)	Values Social security Unimportant (%)	Values Take part in major social decisions Extremely important (%)	Values Take part in major social decisions Very important (%)	Values Take part in major social decisions Important (%)	Values Take part in major social decisions Not sure (%)	Values Take part in major social decisions Unimportant (%)
Total personal characteristics	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Men	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Women	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
12-17 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18-24 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25-34 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
35-44 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
45-54 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
55-64 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
65-74 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
75 yrs and older	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
0-14 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
15-24 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25-44 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
45-64 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
65 yrs and older	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
0-14 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
15-19 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
20-24 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25-34 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
35-44 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
45-54 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
55-64 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
65-74 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
75-84 yrs	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
85 yrs and older	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Unknown	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Level of education: primary education	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Level of education: pre-vocational ed.	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Level of education: junior gen. sec. ed.	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Level of education: senior gen. sec. ed.	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Level of ed.: voc. colleges,universities	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Higher management	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other white-collar workers	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Self-employed	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Skilled manual labour	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Half-skilled and unskilled manual labour	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Unemployed labour force	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Attending school, training	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Disabled	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Early retirement, pension (58-64 yrs)	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Cares for household with minor(s)	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other socio-economic group	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
One-person household	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Member of a single-parent family	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Member of a couple without children	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Member of a couple with children	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Very high urbanisation rate	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
High urbanisation rate	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Moderately high urbanisation rate	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Low urbanisation rate	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Very low urbanisation rate	2004	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Source: cbs.

Explanation of symbols

Table explanation

Participation; political favour and voting behaviour, political
interest and opinions by personal characteristics
1997 - 2003
Changed on February 03 2010.
Frequency: Discontinued.

Description topics

Favourite political party

What political party would you vote for if Lower House elections were to
be held at the time of the interview?
The data refer to persons of Dutch nationality in the age category 18
years and older.
Source: Integrated System of Social Surveys (POLS): basis.

Socialist Party: Socialist Party.

Voting behaviour

People who participated in the POLS survey between 6 and 31 May 1998 were
asked to reveal the political party of their choice in the Dutch Lower
House elections.
Other political parties, for instance: Central Democrats,
General Union for Elderly People, Union 55+, etc.
The data refer to persons of Dutch nationality in the age category 18
years and older.
Source: Integrated System of Social Surveys (POLS): basis.

Socialist Party: Socialist Party.

Values

Four types of social values can be distinguished:
Priority to family values, i.e. being married, live for one's family, the
future of the children and a happy family life.
Priority to economic values: have a career, be prosperous, social security
Critical of society: Trying to reduce the current differences in income,
promoting social equality and a society in which everybody's vote counts.
Hedonism: priority: enjoy life and have fun.

Social security

The data refer to persons in the age category 18 years and older.
Source: Integrated System of Social Surveys (POLS): justice and
environment (REM).
The data are available from 1999.

Extremely important

Very important

Important

Not sure

Unimportant

Take part in major social decisions

The data refer to persons in the age category 18 years and older.
Source: Integrated System of Social Surveys (POLS): justice and
environment (REM).
The data are available from 1999.

Extremely important

Very important

Important

Not sure

Unimportant