British Election Study, 2015: Internet Panel, Waves 1-14, 2014-2018

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The British Election Study (BES) is one of the longest running election studies world-wide having taken at every general election since 1964. The BES explores why people choose to vote (or not) and why they support one party rather than another, as well as wider questions about democracy and political participation. The BES has included panel studies in a relatively small number of recent periods. These panel studies follow the same survey respondents over time in panel study 'waves' of data. Each wave can also be used as a cross-section and surveys include filter variables to find out which respondents are interviewed in all waves, in just one wave or some waves. Panel studies are particularly useful to study within-person change and the evolution of political preferences and electoral behaviours. For more information see the British Election Study website.The British Election Study, 2015: Internet Panel, Waves 1-14, 2014-2018 contains data on waves 1-14 of the 2015 BES, starting in February 2014 and going through to May 2018. The data includes three waves each for the 2015 General Election, the 2016 EU referendum, and the 2017 General Election. The 2014-15 panel also forms part of an ongoing panel survey with waves that cover the 2016 EU referendum, the 2016, 2017 and 2018 local and regional elections, and the 2017 General Election. Full details of the methodology and fieldwork are available in the technical report/codebook that accompanies the data release. The data includes boosted samples for Scotland and Wales. There are approximately 30,000 respondents in each wave.Latest edition informationFor the second edition (July 2019) an updated data file and accompanying documentation covering Waves 1-14, were deposited. Users who need to access the previous edition for replication purposes should contact the UK Data Service Helpdesk at help@ukdataservice.ac.uk.

Main Topics:

Issues facing the country; electoral behaviour and attitudes toward voting; party identification; views on taxation, government spending, economy/national debt, leaders, immigration, European Union and the NHS; Media usage; political efficacy and trust; campaigning; politicians and trust; values, likelihood of voting for each party; political knowledge; demographics, user-defined experiments and requested content.

Volunteer sample

Web-based interview

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8202-2
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=1c2a3c9d957ecceba006dc915002d0969909472aa0ad387aec932f07c4ae8745
Provenance
Creator Fieldhouse, E., University of Manchester, School of Social Sciences; Green, J., University of Oxford, Nuffield College; Evans, G., University of Oxford, Nuffield College; Schmitt, H., University of Manchester, School of Social Sciences; van der Eijk, C., University of Nottingham, School of Social Studies; Mellon, J., University of Manchester, School of Social Sciences; Prosser, C., University of Manchester, Department of Politics
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2017
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
Rights Copyright E. Fieldhouse, J. Green, G. Evans, H. Schmitt, C. van der Eijk, J. Mellon and C. Prosser; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p>
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; Humanities; Jurisprudence; Law; Philosophy; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Great Britain