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Implementation of the Initiative against Mass Immigration

Ref. 12753

Methods

Method description

Media content analysis & Population survey analysis

Method (instruments)

Population, unit of observation

Newspaper articles on immigration: Claims by political actors.

Participant selection or sampling method (census, random sampling, other sampling method (specify))

The media data covers four Swiss newspapers: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Blick, Le Temps and Le Matin. The rationale of the selection is to include a tabloid newspaper and a quality newspaper in the two main language regions of Switzerland.

Other significant comments

The time frame is defined by the implementation period of the Swiss initiative ‘against mass immigration’ adopted on February 9, 2014 and the subsequent implementation law in December 2016.