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The British Election Study, 2010: Campaign Internet Data comprises a large three-wave campaign internet panel survey, with a baseline pre-campaign wave, a sample of respondents re-contacted each day during the campaign, and all respondents interviewed in a post-election wave. For further information see the documentation and the BES 2009-2010 website. The 2010 BES Face-to-Face Survey is held under SN 7529, and the Continuous Monitoring Survey under SN 7531.

Main Topics:

Topics covered include electoral and political issues, party identification and support, party positions on taxation and expenditure, voting intentions and behaviour, opinions of party leaders, trust in British institutions, contact with local politicians, attitudes to the European Union, attitudes to war, governance of Britain since the 2005 election, social trust, beliefs and values, social and political attitudes, and demographic characteristics such as age, gender and social class.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

See documentation for details.

Internet survey