Op 5 mei 2014 is er een groot onderzoek geweest onder bezoekers van Bevrijdingsfestivals. Deze festivals worden georganiseerd met het idee jongeren te betrekken bij vrijheid en het vieren van vrijheid. In totaal zijn vijf festivals onderzocht en hebben meer dan 1000 bezoekers van deze festivals meegewerkt aan deze studie. Uniek aan dit onderzoek was dat er zowel vragenlijsten afgenomen waren bij mensen die het festival nog moesten gaan bezoeken als bij mensen die het festival reeds verlieten. Hierdoor kon niet alleen inzicht verkregen worden in wat mensen dachten en deden op het festival, maar kon ook de vraag beantwoord worden in hoeverre er op het festival iets gebeurt wat een verandering in houding ten opzichte van vrijheid teweegbrengt.
Date: Data were collected on 5 May 2014 (the most recent Liberation Day in the Netherlands) on five Liberation Festivals (Amsterdam, Assen, Utrecht, Wageningen and Zoetermeer). When choosing which festivals to study, we made sure that all regions were represented (studies demonstrated that in the Netherlands regional factors influence individual attitudes see e.g. Savelkoul, Scheepers, Tolsma, & Hagendoorn, 2010). All festivals were visited by two or three interviewers. These interviewers received clear instructions on the goal of the study. All interviewers wore clothes with symbols of the university and received an interviewer identification card with the logo of the university and the organization responsible for organizing the two commemoration days in the Netherlands (National Committee 4 and 5 May). The questionnaires were also printed on official paper of the university. This made sure that the respondents saw that these interviewers represented official institutions. The respondents filled out the questionnaires themselves. It is known that self-administration lowers the chance of social desirable answering patterns (see e.g. Tourangeau, 1996). In general the level of cooperation was high and we received the feedback that the interviewers as well as the respondents liked participating in this study. It took about ten minutes to complete the questionnaire. In total 1117 respondents filled out the questionnaire.
Data is available in both SPSS (.sav) and STATA (.dta) formats.
