Table 3 Voting at the election for the Council of Svalbard 1999, by different groups. In per cent of population groups

Svalbard Statistics 2001

3	Voting at the election for the Council of Svalbard 1999, by different groups. In per cent of population groups

	Labour Party	Conservative Party	Christian Democrativ Party	Interpolitical Joint List	Other


All	20	7	8	59	2

Sex
Male	20	8	8	57	2
Female	21	4	7	62	3

Age
18-24 years	15	-	15	67	3
25-44 years	18	4	6	66	3
45- years	25	12	9	47	1

Family phase
Single	20	9	6	57	4
Single with children	25	-	31	44	-
Couples without children	21	9	8	55	2
Couples with children	20	2	7	66	1

Education
Lower secondary education	24	24	6	47	-
Upper secondary education	24	7	11	53	2
Tertiary education 1	16	6	5	67	3
Tertiary education 2+	15	4	3	70	4

Period of residence
Up to 2 years	15	8	9	63	2
2 up to 4 years	14	1	4	71	5
4 up to 10 years	15	4	11	65	2
10 years and more	30	10	8	46	1

Income
Unknown	13	4	22	57	4
Under 100 000 kroner	28	6	11	56	-
100 000-199 999 kroner	20	2	5	66	-
200 000-299 999 kroner	18	5	8	60	4
300 000-399 999 kroner	29	8	6	54	1
400 000 kroner or more	12	10	7	64	1

Occupation sector
Government employees	15	2	7	71	2
Local government	6	4	4	81	4
Higher education	30	4	7	48	4
Mining and quarrying	46	14	3	30	1
Tourism	9	2	4	78	-
Other	15	8	12	59	3

Storting election 1997
Red Electoral Alliance	:	:	:	:	:
Socialist Left Party	20	3	3	70	5
Labour Party	41	1	6	49	2
Liberal Party	5	5	10	71	10
Christian Democratic Party	4	-	42	50	4
Coast Party	:	:	:	:	:
Centre Party	10	5	-	86	-
Conservative Party	10	37	2	51	-
Progress Party	15	5	15	60	-

¹	Based on interview of a sample of the population.
Source: Survey of social welfare in Longyearbyen 2000. Statistics Norway.
More information: http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/02/notat_200031/ .

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