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The Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2021 has been an enterprise of the Foundation of Electoral Studies in The Netherlands (Stichting Kiezers Onderzoek Nederland; SKON) and Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

The Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies (DPES) are a series of national surveys carried out under the auspices of the Dutch Electoral Research Foundation (SKON). These surveys have been conducted since 1970. Many questions are replicated across studies, although each has questions not asked in the others. The major substantive areas consistently covered include the respondents' attitudes toward and expectations of the government and its effectiveness in both domestic and foreign policy, the most important problems facing the people of the Netherlands, the respondents' voting behavior and participation history, and his/her knowledge of and faith in the nation's political leaders.

The DPES data were collected by two different organizations and consists of five different surveys: a pre-election survey and post-election survey on a CBS sample collected by I&O research, and a pre-election and two post-election surveys within the LISS-panel collected by CentERdata.

Several variables have been excluded from the public data file in order to protect the privacy of individual respondents. Examples are municipality, zip code and information that identifies the respondent or their region in the open answers. These variables are available for scientific purposes only at CentERdata.

This dataset was updated with the files from the December 2022 v2.0 release and republished on February 2nd, 2023. The files from the v2.0 version are found in the subfolder '2022-12_v2''.

Date: 26-01-2021 - 17-05-2021
Issued: 2021