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This dataset comprises the Northern Ireland element of the 2004 European Election Study (EES) project. In that year, 23 European Union (EU) states took part in the EES. A core questionnaire was used for the survey in each country, and for the Northern Ireland wave, additional questions relating to party identification were included. Thus, the key aims of the Northern Ireland survey were not only to analyse voting behaviour in a pan-European context, but also to tease out the implications of domestic party identification. A separate 2004 EES survey for Great Britain was also conducted, and is held at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) under SN 5341 European Election Study, 2004: Great Britain. Further details on the EES may be found on the European Election Studies web site. Some data from the 1989, 1994 and 1999 EES are also available from UKDA (see 'Related Studies' section).

Main Topics:

Topics covered include perception of problems in Northern Ireland, television channels and news programmes viewed regularly, newspaper readership, media election coverage, political party allegiance, voting intention, political attitudes, age economic activity, gender, household composition, religious affiliation and attendance, attitudes to social, political and religious issues, left-right political opinions, and trust of other EU (and EU candidate) countries.

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

Face-to-face interview