News - BES Resources
Here you will find a range of resources we think may be helpful in understanding British elections and in analysing BES data. We will be adding podcasts, powerpoint presentations and further information to make the analysis of BES data as straightforward as possible.
The following links may be helpful in accessing statistical software commonly used to analyse social science data:
• stata
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• Installing R
• RStudio
Professor Hermann Schmitt gives election keynote address in Iceland
Similar to Britain, Iceland has conducted an uninterrupted series of National Election Studies (ICENES) since 1984. The ICENES is an extensive study of the electoral and political behaviour of voters in Iceland. To mark the 30th anniversary of the ICENES a symposium was held at…
How can I analyse the British Election Study data on my computer...
Our data releases are currently in SPSS and Stata format. We will also be releasing an online analysis platform that will allow easy access to the data. If you prefer to work with the data directly but don’t have a copy of SPSS or Stata,…
2015 British Election Internet Panel Study Wave 1
The British Election Study is pleased to announce the release of the first wave of the Internet Panel. 20,881 respondents were interviewed by YouGov between 20th February 2014 and 9th March 2014. Download the data here. The study design aimed at sampling 12500 English, 5000…
New BES data available
New data from the British Election Study are now available. The data are based on an online sample of over 20,000 people surveyed between 20th February and 9th March 2014. More information about the first survey can be found here. The BES is one of the longest…
2015 British Election Study Internet Panel Study Wave 2 and Combined Wave...
The British Election Study is pleased to announce the release of the second wave of the Internet Panel. In total, 30,219 respondents took this survey, 26,870 of these also took wave 1. We are also pleased to release the first combined panel study file of…
Online data collection contract awarded to YouGov
The contract for the online data collection component of the British Election Study was awarded to YouGov following an open competitive tender process. YouGov will have responsibility for gathering the online internet panel sample of respondents between 2014 and 2017, ensuring maximum wave-on-wave retention rates…
Analysing the Effects of Individual Level Registration: BES Partnership with the Electoral...
The British Election Study is partnering with the Electoral Commission to analyse the impact of the switch to individual electoral registration (IER) which is being rolled out from Summer 2014. The partnership will involve two streams of work. (i) Individual level analyses explaining the determinants…
British Election Study Mapping Project Collaboration
As part of the successful Manchester-Oxford-Nottingham bid to run the 2015 British Election Study, the BES will include an innovative ‘mapping project’ designed by international BES collaborators Professor Cara Wong and Professor Jake Bowers (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) and Professor Daniel Rubenson…
About the BES Internet Panel Study
The new BES team is continuing in the footsteps of its predecessors by collecting data via a large online panel study. This BES Internet Panel (BESIP) will follow the same respondents as well as adding to their number to replace those who drop out of…