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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

Variablebbq59
LabelBr Ec difficulties-Which Other Party
Question text You said that you thought, with Britain in economic difficulties, an ‘other’ party would be able to handle the situation best. Please say which party that is.
Responses
A Con/LD Coalition or Con with Ken Clarke not Osborne as Chancellor 1
BNP 10
Conservatives 1
English Democrats 1
Green 1
Green Party 2
LIB DEMS 1
LIBERAL 1
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS 2
Lib Dem 14
Lib Dem for England, SNP for Scotland 1
Lib Dems 20
Lib dem 2
Lib dems 5
Lib-Dems 1
Lib/Dem 1
LibDems 5
Liberal 8
Liberal Democrat 7
Liberal Democrates 1
Liberal Democrats 53
Liberal Democrats (and Vince) 1
Liberal Democrats or a coalition where all parties work together to get us out of this mess. 1
Liberal democrat 1
Liberal democrats 3
Liberals 2
Not sure 2
Not sure but labour aren't doing great 1
SNP 3
Scottish National Party 2
The English Democrats 1
Tories 1
True Liberals 1
UK Independence Party 1
UKIP 22
__NA__ 2756
any 1
any marxist party 1
anyone other than labour or conservatives 1
bnp 5
coalition 1
coalition government of All main parties 1
con 1
dk 2
don't know 1
dont know 1
english democrats 1
green 1
green for the environment, bnp for immigration and fairness for real Britains 1
lib Dems 1
lib dem 15
lib dems 8
libals 1
libdem 3
liberal 4
liberal Democrats 1
liberal democrat 3
liberal democrates 1
liberal democrats 16
liberals 5
liberals democrates 1
libs 1
national front 1
none in particular 1
not at the present time 1
not sure 1
not sure, just a different one 1
snp 2
sorry, meant Conservative 1
ukip 8
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationBritish Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010
Interviewer InstructionsOPEN TEXTBOX
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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