Summary information

Study title

British General Election Study, 2001: Campaign Panel

Creator

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

Study number / PID

4621 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-4621-1 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

 
This dataset comprises data from the BES 2001 election campaign telephone survey, including filters and weights for constructing the seven-day rolling cross-sections, and in addition, constituency-level information for aggregate analysis.

Approximately 150 telephone interviews were conducted for the campaign panel survey each day. Respondents interviewed in the pre-election rolling cross-section survey were re-interviewed immediately after the election.


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, individual and household socio-demographic characteristics.

Topics

Not available

Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study
includes two waves (pre- and post-election).

Analysis unit

National

Universe

Electors in Great Britain during 2001.

Sampling procedure

Simple random sample
interviewing was conducted by Random Digit Dialling to ensure that ex-directory households were included. For full details of sampling procedures used, please see documentation.

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Telephone interview

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.

Related publications

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