CSES Sweden modules V+VI 2018-2023
Since 1995, Sweden is part of the The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). CSES is a coordinated comparative collaboration of national research teams around the world that enables the systematic analysis of electoral behavior under globally varying institutional conditions. More than 200 scholars from over 60 nations collaborate to reach a better understanding of enduring and fundamental questions about electoral choice. The collaborative effort results in a very large number of research publications each year. A consolidated West-European multi-party democracy as Sweden represents an important case for comparative electoral researchers, not least because of the high data quality.
CSES is the most important long term international collaborative project for Swedish research on elections, opinion, and democracy. The proposed research infrastructure project aims to secure Sweden’s participation and in the CSES-collaboration in the years 2018-2023. In the Swedish case, the field work for the fifth and sixth module of the CSES will be carried out in conjunction with the general elections in 2018 and 2022. The application cover costs of planning and coordinating the field work, and to document and publish the data for the Swedish part of CSES. The infra structure project makes it possible for Sweden to actively participate in the decision making in conjunction with the open applications for themes of future CSES modules.
Final report
In connection with the 2018 and 2022 parliamentary elections in Sweden, the Swedish National Election Studies (SNES) planned, pretested, and carried out fieldwork for the Swedish component of the cross-national project The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). In order to achieve economies of scale and to increase sample sizes, CSES Sweden Modules V and VI were coordinated with the recurring Swedish National Election Studies, which are also conducted within the Swedish National Election Studies Program. For CSES Modules V and VI, Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson served as an elected member of the CSES Planning Committee, representing the Nordic teams of election studies in the design of the study.
Following both survey waves, the Swedish data were documented, processed, and delivered to CSES for archiving and deposition. CSES makes the cross-national data freely available to researchers and students for use in their own work. Complete CSES datasets from 2018 and 2022 have also been deposited with the Swedish National Data Service (SND).
The Swedish CSES data from the 2022 election have been integrated into the cross-national data file and have, since December 2025, been included in the latest update of the study.
Data from the study have already been extensively analyzed within within the framework of the Swedish National Election Studies Program’s regular publications (monographs, book chapters, reports, and fact sheets). Since the data are freely available to researchers worldwide (www.cses.org), it is difficult to track their use. CSES data are among the most frequently used cross-national datasets in the world, generating a large number of scholarly publications long after the studies have been conducted. Swedish data are included in the respective modules (I-VI) as well as in the integrated datasets that include all CSES modules since the project started in 1995.
Following both survey waves, the Swedish data were documented, processed, and delivered to CSES for archiving and deposition. CSES makes the cross-national data freely available to researchers and students for use in their own work. Complete CSES datasets from 2018 and 2022 have also been deposited with the Swedish National Data Service (SND).
The Swedish CSES data from the 2022 election have been integrated into the cross-national data file and have, since December 2025, been included in the latest update of the study.
Data from the study have already been extensively analyzed within within the framework of the Swedish National Election Studies Program’s regular publications (monographs, book chapters, reports, and fact sheets). Since the data are freely available to researchers worldwide (www.cses.org), it is difficult to track their use. CSES data are among the most frequently used cross-national datasets in the world, generating a large number of scholarly publications long after the studies have been conducted. Swedish data are included in the respective modules (I-VI) as well as in the integrated datasets that include all CSES modules since the project started in 1995.