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The EES 2014 Post-Election Survey was implemented in a cooperative arrangement between the European Election Studies Association (EES-A) and the European Parliament (EP). The dataset is a combination of two sets of questions: Items marked with ´qp´ in the variable name are financed by and account for the EP; items marked with ´qpp´ in the variable name are financed by and account for the EES-A. 1. Voting: party choice and turnout: participation in the European Parliament elections; party preference; party voted for at the (General Election); if there was a general election tomorrow, which party would be voted for; how probable voting for selected parties; reason for (not)voting; time of vote decision; main reasons to vote and not to vote. 2. Party ID: closeness to any particular party. 3. Engagement and mobilization: watch a program about the election on television, read about the election in a newspaper, talk to friends or family about the election, attend a public meeting or rally about the election, look into a website concerned with the election; contacted by a candidate or party organization during the election campaign; interest in campaign; interest in local, national and EU politics; participated in a demonstration. 4. Media Usage: how often following the news; newspaper read and frequency of reading. 5. Institutions: European Parliament takes into consideration the concerns of European citizens; trust in the EU institutions; trust national parliament; important which candidates win seats and become MEPs in the European Parliament elections; important which political party gained the most seats in the European Parliament elections; the national Parliament takes into consideration the concerns of citizens; politics seems too complicated. 6. EU integration: country’s membership of EU is a good or bad thing; respondent´s attitude to European unification; perception of party regarding EU unification; attitudes towards enlargement of the European...