Shared datasets

Here is the updated and expanded dataset for use by STM103. This is most suitable for comparisons of 191 contemporary states, with a limited number of lagged variables. It contains data on the social, economic and political characteristics of 191 nations with over 1000 variables.

March 2009

Codebook in PDF format

Data Stata SE version

Data SPSS Version

Data Excel 2007 version

Data csv version

Intro to using the dataset with Stata

Intro to using the dataset with SPSS

January 2009

The full dataset of election results and census data is now available for downloading. 

Note that release 1.3 (13 June 2005) corrects minor errors in the size of the electorates (and thus turnout) given in earlier releases.

Dataset in Excel format

Dataset in SPSS  (.sav) format

The full dataset of election results and census data is now available for downloading. The zipped file is the fastest and easiest to download.

Included here is the dataset for all British Parliamentary Constituencies 1992-2001 in SPSS and Excel formats and a report summarizing the results.

[Note that version 2 now available (21st June 2001) amends any errors in the first release.]

Seats Codebook (Acrobat)

Seats (Excel Format)

Seats Summary Report (Acrobat)

This is an experimental study by David Sanders and Pippa Norris designed to assess what people learn during the 2001 British election campaign from five different types of media (TV news, broadsheet newspapers, tabloid newspapers, party election broadcasts, and party websites).

The report posted here summarizes the research design. To try the experiment before reading about their aims and design first complete the pre-test questionnaire, then read either the broadsheet newspaper compilation or browse the party website for about 30 minutes, then complete the post-test questionnaire. You can analyze your response by comparing the pre- and post-test questionnaires. An executive report posting the key results of the analysis will be posted here in summer.

The experiments relate also to work on the British Election Study at Essex. Details can be found here.

1.The pre-test questionnaire

2a.The party website

2b.The broadsheet newspapers

3.The post-test questionnaire

Knows Little Conference paper result

This is the survey of all parliamentary candidates standing for the major British parties in the 2001 general election, directed by Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski. The project was administered at Birkbeck College, University of London and funded by the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School. 

The data has been anonymized to preserve confidentiality and constituency-level data has been merged with the survey data.

Summary of research design for the 2001 BRS

The Iceberg and the Titanic Conference paper presenting some  results

This presents the results of the survey of 1000 parliamentary candidates and MPS from all the major  parties running in the 1997 British general election.

Codebook

Data in downloadable SPSS portable format

Questionnaire

Frequencies

This dataset contains the results of the 1992 survey of  British Parliamentary Candidates. The survey was conducted by Norris and Lovenduski with replies from 1,676 respondents in all the major parties, (a 69% response rate). The series of surveys was subsequently continued in the 1997 and 2001 British Representation Studies (above).

The codebook and questionnaire specify the contents. More details are available in Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski Political Recruitment (Cambridge University Press 1995)

Codebook (pdf format)

Data (BCS92) in SPSS portable format

Questionnaire

Technical Appendix

The sheets contain the following information for approx 201 countries worldwide.

1. Freedom House Ratings 1998-99: Political rights, civil liberties, combined ratings, Per capita GDP, Life Expectancy. 2. Type of Democracy 3. Freedom combined score. 4. Political rights scale 5. Civil liberties scale.

Data in downloadable Excel format

Data in downloadable Spss portable format

Link to Source: Freedom House

This provides materials about the national election study in the 1997 contest, including the cross-sectional post-election survey, the campaign panel study, the survey of Scotland, the survey of ethnic minorities, the contents analysis and related experimental studies.

Link to Crest for the questionnaires, codebooks and fuller information about the datasets. Also links to downloadable election results datasets for Scotland, Wales and the European elections.

This dataset contains the vote for each party and the change in the vote at constituency level for over four hundred by-elections in Britain from 1945 to May 2000.

One page summary of byelection results since 1987 in Acrobat.pdf format.

This dataset contains the vote share of the major parties, and the change in the vote since the previous general election, recorded in the monthly Gallup opinion polls 1945-2000.

Link to the WVS home page with more details.