Summary information

Study title

General Election in Northern Ireland, 2001

Creator

Sanders, D., University of Essex, Department of Government
Stewart, M., University of Texas (Dallas), School of Social Sciences
Clarke, H., National Election Study Project (Canada)
Whiteley, P. F., University of Bristol, Department of Politics

Study number / PID

4622 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-4622-1 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

 
The BES 2001 included a post-election telephone survey conducted with a sample of 1,053 electors resident in Northern Ireland.


Main Topics:

The following subjects were covered in the survey: political preferences and values, economic perceptions, social attitudes, dispositions to engage in different forms of political activity, attitudes towards political agreements concerning Northern Ireland and its political future, individual and household socio-demographic characteristics.

Topics

Not available

Methodology

Data collection period

12/06/2001 - 17/06/2001

Country

Northern Ireland

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

National

Universe

Northern Ireland electors during 12-17 June 2001.

Sampling procedure

Simple random sample
interviewing was conducted by Random Digit Dialling. Please see documentation for full details of sampling procedures.

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Telephone interview
CATI

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2003

Terms of data access

  The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

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