The survey questions cover the content of attitudes towards the Sámi (including prejudices and positive as well as negative stereotypes), the underlying drivers (such as perceived conflict and predispositions), and potential countervailing factors that might mitigate stereotypes. Furthermore, we measure background factors that may influence these aspects – geography, in particular.
Such a framework enables us to explain variations in attitudes within the population and to identify causal mechanisms that can be addressed through policies and measures.
This set of questions is being used in a nationwide online survey, which also includes open-ended questions and survey experiments. The results will be published in a report.
