British Election Panel Study, 1983, 1986 and 1987

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The aim of the <i>British Election Panel Study 1983, 1986 and 1987</i> was to investigate the relationship between social and political change in the period between 1983 and 1987. Particular topics which were the focus of attention included the impact of council house purchase, and purchase of shares in the newly privatised companies, on political preference. Full reports of these analyses are contained in the publication by A.F. Heath et al, <i>Understanding Political Change</i> (see 'Reports by Principal Investigators' section for full bibliographic details). The study was also designed to investigate attitude stability and change and vote switching.

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The study consists of a follow-up to the 1983 British General Election Study, Cross Section Survey (held at the Archive under SN:2005). Respondents were re-interviewed in the autumn of 1986 and again after the 1987 general election in the summer of 1987. Data file 01 contains the 1983 and 1986 responses of panel members who completed the 1986 round of interviews. Data file 012 contains the 1983, 1986 and 1987 responses of panel members who completed all three rounds of interview. The content of the 1986 and 1987 questionnaires largely consists of identical questions to those asked in the 1983 British Election Study (BES), thus making it possible to compare responses over time. The files also contain a split-half experiment on the question-order of party identification and vote (see Heath and Pierce, 1992 - full bibliographic details in 'Reports by Principal Investigators' section). Standard Measures The dataset contains standard measures of the Goldthorpe class schema.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Face-to-face interview

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-4000-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=6f8bb46b1b759642e1f18e1a5614df14a4a7a04e2a7f20c307d1c0450515e910
Provenance
Creator Jowell, R., Social and Community Planning Research; Heath, A., University of Oxford, Jesus College; Curtice, J. K., University of Oxford, Nuffield College
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1999
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
Rights Copyright Social and Community Planning Research; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p>
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Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Jurisprudence; Law; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Great Britain