01.02.2021
Dataset Overview
Dataset title
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Citizens preference for voting rights in Europe
Dataset description language
English
Dataset Description
This survey documents citizen's preferences for different voting rights schemes in 26 European Countries (EU25 + Switzerland). The CAWI survey was conducted in 2019, before the European Parliament elections of May 2019. In 19 countries the sample is around n=500 respondents, but in seven (7) countries, which cover the geographical and institutional diversity across Europe, the sample is around n = 1'000 (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland). The survey includes only respondents who are both nationals and resdents of the country in which they are surveyed. It contains socio-demographic information of respondents, nationality/mobility statuses, political preferences, as well as a battery of questions of voting rights in national and European elections. SPSS file produced by the archive.
Remarks about the documentation
The codebook contains the variable descriptions with reference to the labels included in the raw dataset. The additionnal documentation (Excel-file) contains the party list in connection with variable Q12c.
Version number
1.0
Embargo end date
Publication date
08.06.2021
Version notes
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Bibliographical citation
Elie Michel, Joachim Blatter: Citizens preference for voting rights in Europe [Dataset]. Universität Luzern. Distributed by FORS, Lausanne, 2021.
DIP MD5 hash
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