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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

British Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010

Variable Details

Variablebbissue1
LabelCampaign Period-Most Important Issue 1
Responses
1 NHS 41
2 Education 24
3 Pensions 21
4 Spend, Other social 24
5 Unemployment 86
6 Taxation 16
7 Petrol Prices 8
8 Inflation 14
9 Economy General 1406
10 Crime 109
11 EURO, Europe 52
12 Transportation 2
13 Asylum 3
14 Environment 56
15 Dishonesty 33
16 Constitutional 0
17 International Probs 2
18 Leadership gen-neg 3
19 Pol values-left 16
20 Pol values-right 0
21 Election outcome 9
22 Low Turnout, Apathy 1
23 Immigration 642
24 Terrorism 25
25 Iraq War 0
26 Government Reform 17
27 Housing 9
28 Class Difference 18
29 Bush,USA-negative 0
30 Big Gov-negative 0
31 Loss-Manufac Ind 4
32 I.D. Cards 1
33 Aging Population 6
34 Strikes 0
35 Welfare Fraud 16
36 Consumer Debt 62
37 Lab Leadership-neg 20
38 Lab Gov-neg 22
39 Racial Tension 6
40 National Security 3
41 Drugs 5
42 Agriculture Issues 0
43 Failure of Religious 2
44 Nat Ident,goals-loss 4
45 Family Values-lack 6
46 Youth 9
47 UKIP-neg 0
48 UKIP-pos 0
49 School violence 0
50 Civil liberties 10
51 Morals 3
52 Rover crisis 0
53 Energy 4
54 Scot Const 2
55 Media 1
56 Banks 4
57 MP Scandal 1
58 War in Afghanistan 19
80 Miscellaneous 0
98 DK, not sure 173
99 Refused 382
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationBritish Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010
UniverseElectors resident in Great Britain during 2005-2009.;National
SamplingQuota sample
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort; The dataset contains six survey waves.
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