Wave 6 of the 2014-2023 British Election Study Internet Panel
The 2015 post-election wave of the 2014-2023 British Election Study Internet Panel. Version 3.9.
Fieldhouse, E., J. Green., G. Evans., H. Schmitt, C. van der Eijk, J. Mellon & C. Prosser (2015) British Election Study Internet Panel Wave 6. DOI: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-8202-2You need to log in to download BES files. Sign in or register for a free account
- Age completed formal education
- Age group
- Are you an employee or self-employed/an independent contractor?
- Are you, or have you ever been, a member of any Political party?
- Attention to Politics
- Best party on most important issue
- Bought - or refused to buy – any products for political or ethical reasons?
- Cares for pre-school age children
- Cares for school age children
- Cares for sick, disabled or elderly adults
- Certainty about Conservatives' position on EU
- Certainty about Conservatives' position on redistribution
- Certainty about Green's position on EU
- Certainty about Green's position on redistribution
- Certainty about Labour's position on EU
- Certainty about Labour's position on redistribution
- Certainty about Liberal Democrats' position on EU
- Certainty about Liberal Democrats' position on redistribution
- Certainty about own position on EU
- Certainty about own position on redistribution
- Certainty about UKIP's position on EU
- Certainty about UKIP's position on redistribution
- Christians
- Church attendance
- Coalition governments are more effective than single party governments
- Coalition governments are more in tune with the public than governments formed o
- Conservatives contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Conservatives united or divided
- Contacted a politician, government or local government official?
- Country
- Country of birth
- Daily newspaper readership
- Delivering Leaflets
- Did you supervise or were you responsible for the work of any other people?
- Do you generally think of yourself as a little closer to one of the parties than
- Do you have any long-term illness, health problem or disability which limits you
- Do you have any regrets about how you voted in the general election?
- Do you own or rent the home in which you live?
- Do you supervise or are you responsible for the work of any other people?
- Do you think that the amount of money families on welfare receive is too high or
- Do you use Facebook?
- Do you use Twitter?
- Done any work on behalf of a political party or action group?
- Doorstep Canvassing
- During the election campaign, did you get news about politics and the election t
- During the election campaign, did you get news about politics and the election t
- During the election campaign, did you help any of the political parties with the
- Economic optimism indicator: good time to buy big household items
- Education qualification (highest attained)
- Employers should be allowed to hire workers on zero-hour contracts
- England
- Equal opportunities for ethnic minorities gone too far | not far enough
- Equal opportunities for women gone too far |not far enough
- Equal opportunities to gays and lesbians gone too far | not far enough
- Ethnic minorities
- Ethnicity
- European Integration scale (1990s version): Conservatives
- European Integration scale (1990s version): Greens
- European Integration scale (1990s version): Labour
- European Integration scale (1990s version): Liberal Democrats
- European Integration scale (1990s version): Plaid Cymru
- European Integration scale (1990s version): self
- European Integration scale (1990s version): SNP
- European Integration scale (1990s version): UKIP
- European Integration scale (ESS version): Conservatives
- European Integration scale (ESS version): Greens
- European Integration scale (ESS version): Labour
- European Integration scale (ESS version): Liberal Democrats
- European Integration scale (ESS version): Plaid Cymru
- European Integration scale (ESS version): self
- European Integration scale (ESS version): SNP
- European Integration scale (ESS version): UKIP
- Financial situation of your household
- Gay, lesbian, bisexual or, transgender people
- Gender
- General economic retrospective evaluation: country
- General economic situation in this country
- General Election vote 2005
- General Election vote 2010
- General election vote intention (recalled vote in post-election waves)
- Generally speaking, do you think of yourself as Labour, Conservative, Liberal De
- Generally speaking, how willing are you to take risks?
- Given any money to a political party, organization or cause
- Given any money to a political party, organization or cause
- Going to vote is a lot of effort
- Gone on strike or taken industrial action?
- Gone too far: cuts to local services in my area
- Gone too far: cuts to NHS spending
- Gone too far: cuts to public spending
- Green Party contacted by email
- Green Party contacted by letter/leaflet
- Green Party contacted by SMS
- Green Party contacted by telephone
- Green Party contacted in other ways
- Green Party contacted in street
- Green Party Contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Green Party united or divided
- Green Party visited home
- Handle most important issue: Conservatives
- Handle most important issue: Green Party
- Handle most important issue: Labour
- Handle most important issue: Liberal Democrat
- Handle most important issue: UKIP
- Have any of the political parties contacted you during the previous 7 days?
- Have felt angry about Conservatives
- Have felt angry about Greens
- Have felt fear about Conservatives
- Have felt fear about Greens
- Have you worked in a paid job in the past?
- Helping Out at the Campaign Office
- Highest Qualification
- Hopeful
- Hopeful
- Household size
- Household size - number of children
- How many people work for your employer at the place where you work?
- How many people worked for your employer at the place where you worked most rece
- How much influence do you think the party that you voted for will have in the ne
- I visited the polling station on my own
- I visited the polling station with another person who voted
- I visited the polling station with someone who did NOT vote
- I voted by post
- If regrets vote: How do you wish you had voted?
- Immigration level increase/decrease
- In the recent General Election, did the candidate that you voted for get elected
- Income - gross household
- Income - gross personal
- Income source: Dependent on parents/other relatives
- Income source: don't know
- Income source: Earnings from employment (own or spouse/partner)
- Income Support or family credit
- Increases in tuition fees for University students
- Interest from savings or investments
- Interest in General Election
- Interview Start Time
- Invalidity, sickness or disabled pension or benefit(s)
- Is $registeredOther the postcode of your current address?
- Is your name on the electoral register?
- It doesn't matter which political party is in power
- It is every citizen's duty to vote in an election
- It is more difficult to know who to blame when parties govern in coalition
- It is often difficult for me to understand what is going on in government and po
- It takes too much time and effort to be active in politics and public affairs
- Jobseeker's Allowance / Unemployment benefit
- Knows Ed Miliband's job
- Knows George Obsborne's job
- Knows John Bercow's job
- Knows Nick Clegg's job
- Knows Theresa May's job
- Labour contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Labour emotions: Afraid
- Labour emotions: Angry
- Labour emotions: Hopeful
- Labour united or divided
- Left-right value: Big business takes advantage of ordinary poeple Waves 7-9
- Left-right value: Government should redistribute incomes Waves 7-9
- Left-right value: Management will always try to get the better of employees
- Left-right value: Ordinary working people do not get their fair share Waves 7-9
- Left-right value: There is one law for the rich and one for the poor Waves 7-9
- Left/right position: Conservative
- Left/right position: Greens
- Left/right position: Labour
- Left/right position: Lib Dems
- Left/right position: Plaid Cymru
- Left/right position: Self
- Left/right position: SNP
- Left/right position: UKIP
- Lib Dems contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Lib-Auth value: Censoring necessary to uphold moral standards Waves 7-9
- Lib-Auth value: For some crimes, death penalty most appropriate sentence Waves
- Liberal Democrats emotions: Afraid
- Liberal Democrats emotions: Angry
- Liberal Democrats emotions: Hopeful
- Liberal Democrats united or divided
- Like/dislike: Bennett
- Like/dislike: British National Party (BNP)
- Like/dislike: Clegg
- Like/dislike: Conservatives
- Like/dislike: David Cameron
- Like/dislike: Green Party
- Like/dislike: Labour
- Like/dislike: Liberal Democrats
- Like/dislike: Miliband
- Like/dislike: Nigel Farage
- Like/dislike: Plaid Cymru
- Like/dislike: Scottish National Party
- Like/dislike: Sturgeon
- Like/dislike: United Kingdom Independence Party
- Like/dislike: Wood
- Listened to or watched a party election broadcast
- Measures to protect the environment
- Most important issue category (auto-coded)
- Most people I know usually vote in general elections
- Muslims
- Never went to private school
- No caring responsibilities
- Non-electoral participation: Don't know
- None of these
- None of these
- None of these
- None of these
- None of these parties contacted you in last 4 weeks
- NS-SEC social class analytic categories
- Occupational pension(s) - from previous employer(s)
- Opinion on necessity of deficit reduction in next 3 years
- Other party contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Other source
- Other state benefit
- Parties and politicians in the UK are more concerned with fighting each other th
- Parties cannot deliver on their promises when they govern in coalition
- Party ID if no party to first ID question
- Party identification
- People should vote for the party they like, even if it will not win
- People who break the law should be given stiffer sentences
- People who come from the area they represent
- People with disabilities
- People with university degrees
- Personal economic retrospective evaluation: household
- Plaid Cymru contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Plaid Cymru emotions: Afraid
- Plaid Cymru emotions: Angry
- Plaid Cymru emotions: Hopeful
- Plaid Cymru emotions: None of these
- Plaid Cymru united or divided
- Politicians don't care what people like me think
- Preferences for English powers | English votes on English laws
- Private companies running public services
- Probability of voting for BNP
- Probability of voting for Conservatives
- Probability of voting for Green party
- Probability of voting for Labour
- Probability of voting for Liberal Democrats
- Probability of voting for Plaid Cymru
- Probability of voting for Scottish National Party
- Probability of voting for UKIP
- Proud
- Proud
- Proud
- Proud
- Proud
- Read a campaign leaflet/letter, text message or email from a political party
- Reason not reg: Don't know
- Reason not reg: I didn't know how to register
- Reason not reg: I didn't want other people to know details
- Reason not reg: I got left off by mistake
- Reason not reg: I have recently moved
- Reason not reg: I just couldn't be bothered
- Reason not reg: I'm not entitled to vote
- Reason not reg: I'm not interested in elections
- Reason not reg: Never received the application form
- Reason not reg: None of these reasons
- Redistribution scale: Conservatives
- Redistribution scale: Greens
- Redistribution scale: Labour
- Redistribution scale: Liberal Democrats
- Redistribution scale: Plaid Cymru
- Redistribution scale: Self
- Redistribution scale: SNP
- Redistribution scale: UKIP
- Reduce deficit by taxation/spending cuts
- Region
- Religious affiliation
- Religious denomination
- Respondent filled in registration form, or someone else
- Satisfaction with English democracy
- Satisfaction with EU democracy
- Satisfaction with Scottish democracy
- Satisfaction with the current system of registration
- Satisfaction with UK democracy
- Satisfaction with Welsh democracy
- Schools should teach children to obey authority
- Scotland
- Scotland Q only: Expectations about Scottish powers
- Scotland Q only: Independence referendum vote intention
- Scotland Q only: Preferences for Scottish powers
- Scotland Q only: Vote intention for Scottish Parliament | constituency
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: Defence
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: NHS
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: Police
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: Schools
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: Tax
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: Welfare benefits
- Scottish regional vote
- Scottishness: Conservatives
- Scottishness: Greens
- Scottishness: Labour
- Scottishness: SNP
- Should there be another Scottish independence referendum within 10 years
- Signed a petition not on the Internet?
- Signed a petition on the Internet?
- SNP contacted by email
- SNP contacted by letter/leaflet
- SNP contacted by social media
- SNP contacted by telephone
- SNP contacted in other ways
- SNP contacted in street
- SNP contacted you in last 4 weeks
- SNP emotions: Afraid
- SNP emotions: Angry
- SNP emotions: Hopeful
- SNP emotions: None of these
- SNP emotions: Proud
- SNP visited home
- Someone else voted for me (proxy voting)
- Speaks Welsh?
- State retirement or widow's pension(s)
- Strength of party identification
- Student grant or loan
- Taken part in a public demonstration?
- Taking Numbers at Polling Stations
- Telephoning Electors
- There will be times when you don't have enough money to cover your day to day li
- Thinking about the outcomes of general elections, which of these statements is m
- Thinking back to the last UK General Election on May 7th 2015, a lot of people
- Thinking overall about how the party leaders performed during the election campa
- Thinking overall about how the party leaders performed during the election campa
- Time follows politics in newspapers (including online)
- Time follows politics on the internet (not including newspapers)
- Time follows politics on the radio
- Time follows politics on TV
- Time follows politics talking to other people
- Tone: Conservatives
- Tone: Greens
- Tone: Labour
- Tone: Liberal Democrats
- Tone: Plaid Cymru
- Tone: SNP
- Tone: UKIP
- Tried to persuade somebody which party they should vote for
- Trust MPs in general
- UKIP contacted you in last 4 weeks
- UKIP emotions: Afraid
- UKIP emotions: Angry
- UKIP emotions: Hopeful
- UKIP emotions: None of these
- UKIP emotions: Proud
- UKIP united or divided
- Understands the important political issues facing our country
- Vote intention in referendum on EU membership
- Vote method: Don't know
- Voting for small parties is wasting a vote
- Voting is an enjoyable experience
- Wales
- Wales Q only: Preferences for Welsh powers
- Wales Q only: Preferences for Welsh powers
- Wales Q only: Vote intention for Welsh Assembly | constituency
- Wales Q only: Which insitution should decide: Tax
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: Defence
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: Justice
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: NHS
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: Police
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: Schools
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: Welfare
- Weight variable for the GB sample as a whole (Everyone who took wave 2)
- Went to private primary/middle school
- Went to private secondary school
- Were you an employee or self-employed/an independent contractor?
- What about the local elections on the same day? Did you manage to vote in your l
- What is your marital status?
- What subject did you most recently study at University?
- What subject do you currently study at University?
- Which of these is the main source of income for you (and your wife / husband / p
- Which parties helped: Conservatives
- Which parties helped: don't know
- Which parties helped: Greens
- Which parties helped: Labour
- Which parties helped: Liberal Democrats
- Which parties helped: Other
- Which parties helped: Plaid Cymru
- Which parties helped: SNP
- Which parties helped: UKIP
- Which party are you a member of?
- Which party did you vote for in the local elections?
- Which party were you most recently a member of?
- Why did you vote for the party that you did?
- Women
- Work type
- Working status
- Working-class people
- Worst leader in the campaign
- You will be out of a job and looking for work
- Young people
- Young people today don't have enough respect for traditional British values