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The study builds on a series of post general elections surveys conducted in Northern Ireland. In 2010 a similar survey was conducted, the <I<Northern Ireland General Election Attitudes Survey, 2010 (held under SN 6553), also known as the Westminster Election in Northern Ireland Survey. Essentially the 2015 study provides an opportunity to monitor electoral trends as well as elicit public opinion on a range of contemporary social and political issues relevant to Northern Ireland. The objectives of the 2015 study were to assess the following:how the electorate voted in Northern Ireland; voting behaviour and party choices;voting patterns within a sectarian divide;voting and 'normal' political concerns (e.g. health, etc.);perception of political parties and political leaders;views on devolving powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive;Views on post-conflict issues; andviews on 'dissident' groups.The dataset contains the views of a representative sample of 1,810 electors across Northern Ireland's 18 parliamentary constituencies on a wide range of electoral, political and religious attitudes, based upon interviews with these electors conducted within the six weeks immediately following the 2015 General Election. Further information about the study can be found on the Research Councils UK Gateway to Research The 2015 Northern Ireland general election survey: measuring political change in a power-sharing polity award webpage.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Face-to-face interview