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BES_panel: Responses from the 2010 British Election Study

Description

A survey of 1845 respondents using 3 waves of panel survey data from the 2010 British Election Study. The variables are as follows:

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 5535 rows and 11 variables

Details

  • n case number
  • t time wave
  • Econ Assessment of change in the national economic situation over the past 12 months (1-5, 1=‘got a lot worse’, 5=‘got a lot better’)
  • Clegg Evaluation of Liberal Party leader Nick Clegg (0-10, 0=‘strongly dislike’ and 10=‘strongly like’)
  • Brown Evaluation of Labour Party leader Gordon Brown
  • Cameron Evaluation of Conservative Party leader David Cameron
  • Approve Approval of the government, as expressed by feeling about the ruling Labour Party (0-10, 0=‘strongly dislike’, 10=‘strongly like’)
  • NHS Assesment of the current government's handling of the National Health Service (1-5, 1=‘very badly’, 5=‘very well’)
  • Terror Assesment of the current government's handling of terrorism (1-5, 1=‘very badly’, 5=‘very well’)
  • PID Personal identification with the Labour Party (0/1, 0=‘no’, 1=‘yes’)
  • Tax Preference for policy on taxes and health and social spending (0-10, 0=‘cut taxes a lot and spend much less’, 10=‘increase taxes a lot and spend much more’)