Summary information

Study title

British Elections, 1963-1992

Creator

University of Essex, UK Data Archive

Study number / PID

3175 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-3175-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


This collection contains files from the national General Election Surveys conducted in Great Britain between 1963 and 1992 which are deposited in the Data Archive at the University of Essex.
There is machine readable documentation for most of the surveys. These include SPSS setup command files, frequency distributions, SPSS-generated codebooks and, when available, complete questionnaire-codebooks. Moreover, most datasets are also available in SPSS portable export format.
The studies included in this collection are Study Numbers 44; 359; 422; 666; 681; 830; 1093; 1365; 1533; 1591; 1604; 1614; 1852; 2005; 2278; 2568; 2591 (now superseded by SN:4000); 2981; 2983. For full titles see below under References to Related Studies.

Topics

Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Great Britain, Scotland, Wales

Time dimension

Compilation of files from the national General Election Surveys conducted in Great Britain betwen 1963 and 1992

Analysis unit

Individuals
National
Adults
Electors

Universe

No information recorded

Sampling procedure

See documentation for details

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1994

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

Not available