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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,…
Room for switching: European Parliament Vote Intentions
According to a Telegraph/ICM poll published on 19 April, the upcoming European Parliament elections lead to a dismal result for the Conservative party, which is predicted to finish third, after Labour and UKIP. We take no aim with the findings of this poll and the…
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…
Thatcher’s Legacy Still Looms Large: The North-South divide in Britain’s electoral support
During the 1980s Britain witnessed an unprecedented geographical polarisation of voting behaviour and political attitudes. The term North-South divide became popular parlance, not just in the field of economics but also in British politics, as ‘the North’ – defined approximately by an imaginary line from…
Turnout in the European Parliament election: Why do so many people abstain?
Evidence from British Election Study Internet Panel Wave One conducted in Feb/March 2014 There is a bit of a clash between different explanations of the particularly low level of participation in European Parliament elections. Some say it’s all due to Euro-Scepticism: those who are critical about…
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…
UKIP support in the European Parliament election set to translate to the...
The UK Independence Party tends to poll significantly better in European Parliament elections than it does in Westminster general elections. A good result for UKIP in the European Parliament elections is a blow for the three major parties, but the major parties traditionally take comfort…
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…
British Election Study plans presented at London School of Economics
Professor Jane Green presented plans of the new 2015 British Election Study in a seminar held by British [email protected], on 11 September 2013. The seminar was organised by Professor Tony Travers and Professor Simon Hix. Jane’s slides can be downloaded here: LSE slides
2015 BES innovations discussed in Montreal
Professor Ed Fieldhouse presented new innovations in the 2015 British Election Study at a workshop of election specialists hosted by Professor Andre Blais (University of Montreal) in March 2014. Ed highlighted innovations in the 2015 BES: User experiments and proposals (‘playground’ items e.g. certainty scales)…