New Korea Barometer Survey, 1997

UKDA study number:4007

Principal Investigators

Shin, D.C.
Rose, R.
Munro, N.
University of Strathclyde. Centre for the Study of Public Policy

Data Collector

Gallup Korea

Sponsors

Economic and Social Research Council
Korean Legislative Development Institute

Distributed by

UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.

September 1999

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Shin, D.C., Rose, R. and Munro, N., New Korea Barometer Survey, 1997 [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], September 1999. SN: 4007, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-4007-1.

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Copyright:
Professor Richard Rose

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4007 . New Korea Barometer Survey, 1997

Depositor:

Rose, R. , University of Strathclyde. Centre for the Study of Public Policy

Principal Investigators:

Shin, D.C. , University of Strathclyde. Centre for the Study of Public Policy

Rose, R. , University of Strathclyde. Centre for the Study of Public Policy

Munro, N. , University of Strathclyde. Centre for the Study of Public Policy

Data Collector:

Gallup Korea

Sponsors:

Economic and Social Research Council
Korean Legislative Development Institute
Grant Number: R000222308

Abstract:

The Centre for the Study of Public Policy (CSPP) has conducted a series of Barometer surveys in Eastern Europe to gauge mass response to democratization. This project extends this research to the Republic of Korea. Because democratization has become a global phenomenon in the past two decades along with economic liberalization and marketization, this raises fundamental questions about the primacy of universalist theories of change. Much attention has focused on Post-Communist European countries (PCE) experiencing the double transformation to democracy and a market economy and comparisons with prior, albeit less radical changes in Southern Europe and Latin America. The Republic of Korea can add to our understanding of worldwide change, for it has experienced rapid economic success in the global economy, and subsequent rapid democratization and then economic crisis.
While no country is 'typically' Asian, the Republic of Korea has an indubitable status as an Asian country - many centuries of history as an independent state, a Confucian and Buddhist tradition, and in its location between Japan and China in a non-geographical as well as a geographical sense. Korea began industrialization and entry into the global economy after Japan, but it has been spectacularly successful up to the 1997 economic crisis, becoming a member of OECD with a GDP per capita higher than any PCE country. It is a new democracy, as a military dictatorship ruled for decades before democratization began in the mid-1980s, and the first opposition candidate won a presidential election in 1997. Korea has parallels with Germany before 1990, as its neighbour North Korea still has an unreconstructed Communist regime.
This survey is the sixth in a series of New Korea Barometer surveys, which have been conducted by Professor Doh Chull Shin since 1988. The previous five surveys are not held at the Data Archive. More information about the survey series may be found on the CSPP website at http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/.

Main Topics:

The questionnaire covers attitudes toward democracy, employment, social capital, trust and distrust, and expectations of fair and honest treatment by public officials. The questionnaire combines questions regularly included in interviews in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, and also many questions asked in Professor Shin's previous five Korean surveys.

Coverage:

Dates of Fieldwork: 20 May 1997 - 30 June 1997
Country: Republic of Korea
Spatial Units: No information recorded
Observation Units: Individuals
Kind of Data: Numeric data; Individual (micro) level

Universe Sampled:

Location of Units of Observation: National
Population: Representative nationwide sample of all Koreans aged 20 years and over in 1997. The whole of the Republic of Korea is covered, except for the island of Che-Ju Do. The survey covers six regions (Do) and eight large cities.

Methodology:

Time Dimensions: Repeated cross-sectional study
N.B. Five previous surveys were conducted in the series, but this is the only one held at the Data Archive.
Sampling Procedures: Multi-stage stratified random sample
Number of Units: Results were marginally weighted by gender within age groups to match data from the Republic of Korea census.
(A) 1117 (target)
(B) 1116 (obtained) Weighted sample size
Method of Data Collection: Face-to-face interview

Language(s) of Written Materials:

Study Description: English
Study Documentation: English, Korean

Access:

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Date of First Release:

15 September 1999

Copyright:

Professor Richard Rose

File last updated:

11 October 2011