Here are some examples of our survey research:

The Civil Society in the Welfare State

A monograph authored by Karin Busch Zetterberg entitled Civilsamhället i socialstaten, published 1996 by the City University Press, Stockholm, deals with private transfers and private care in a nation in which the government runs a comprehensive welfare system. Fieldwork by Demoskop AB. A summary in English is available here.

Sports and Exercizes

A government report, Motion och idrott 1997, (available as an Acrobate file from the Swedish government). Chapter 7 of this report contains an analysis of sports and exercise and sport equipment in terms of values held by the population. Author: Karin Busch Zetterberg.  Fieldwork by Temo AB.

How much alcohol do you drink?

It is well known that answers to standard survey questions on alcohol consumption contain a substantial underreporting. Less than half of the actually sold alcohol in a country may be reported as consumed by survey questions. A major methodological project called KALK  searched remedies for this situation. Its main survey has 11.000 respondents. Every day for one year a sub-sample has been asked: "How much did you drink yesterday?". Special questions deal with moon shining, smuggling, and other non-taxed alcohol. Supplementary surveys deal with repeated offenders of drunken driving and patients in clinics for alcoholics.

The sponsors of this project include most major commercial, administrative, medical and social science interests in alcohol research in Sweden. Fieldwork has been carried out by GfK Sweden and Statistics Sweden.

The project steering group consists of

Björn Hibell (björn.hibell (bjorn.hibell@can.se) of CAN,
Eckhart Kühlhorn (kuhlhorn@sociology.su.se) of the University of Stockholm (chairman),
Stig Larsson (stig.larsson@burlow.telia.com) of Lund University, and
Hans L Zetterberg (hans.l.zetterberg@valuescope.com).of ValueScope 

Project administrator is Mats Ramstedt, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, phone +46 8 16 34 08, fax +46 8 612 55 80, e-mail mrams@sociology.su.se.

A paper by the research group entitled "How Much Alcohol Do You Drink? -- A Test Case for Survey Research" presented to the WAPOR symposium on "Quality in Survey Research" in June 1998 is available here.