Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

Variableccq3
LabelMost Important Issue
Question text Now, a few questions about the issues and problems facing Britain today. As far as you’re concerned, what is the SINGLE MOST important issue facing the country at the present time? (Please write in. If you think there are no important issues facing the country at the present time, please write NONE; if you don’t know, please write DK)
Responses
A Hung Parliament 2
A faair voting system 1
A getting a stable, sensible government whocan sort out the economy 1
A hung parliament 1
A proper Goverment 1
Abuse of the benefit system 1
Afganistan 2
Afghan war 1
Afghanistan 3
Aging population 1
Anti Social Behaviour 1
Anti social behaviour 1
Anti-social behaviour 2
Antisocial behavior, leading to petty crime and then major crime 1
Attack on Christian values. 1
Belonging to the European Parliament 1
Benefit fraud 1
Benefit scroungers 1
Benefits 1
Big Brother society created by labour and immigration 1
Breakdown of Society 1
Budget Deficit 1
Budget Deficit and Britains debts 1
Budget defecit 2
Budget deficit 4
Budget deficit, immigration, high taxation 1
Budget deficit/debt 1
COST OF LIVING 1
CRIM/TERRORISM 1
CRIME 4
Cameron being pm 1
Carbon economy 1
Civil Liberty 1
Civil liberties 1
Climate change 7
Climate change - it's being neglected because there are other big issues which are more immediate 1
Conservatives 1
Constitutional stability 1
Continued moral decline. 1
Control of immigration 1
Controlling and regulating the bankers 1
Cost of living 1
Country's debt 2
Creating a stable Conservative Government 1
Crime 10
Crime Rate 1
Crime and Education 1
Crime and Justice 1
Crime and immigration 1
Cuts 1
Cuts at home when 45 million per day goes to the EU! 1
Cutting the national debt 1
DEBT 3
DEFICIT 1
DK 39
DK) 1
DSK 1
Danger to the country of the conservatives damaging our recovery by cutting expenditure too drastically. 1
David Cameron & The Conservatives 1
Debt 15
Debt (Government & Private) 1
Debt - both national and individual - levels are too high 1
Debt crisis in UK and across Europe 1
Debt/econmomy/deficit 1
Defecit 1
Defence 1
Deficit 5
Deficit, Competetiveness 1
Democracy 1
Democracy i.e. systemic reform 1
Dishonesty and corruption in high places 1
Disillusionment 1
Dk 1
ECCONOMY 1
ECONEMY 1
ECONOMY 16
ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION,LOSING THE RIGHT TO MAKE OUR OWN LAWS TO THE eu 1
EEC 1
ENVIRONMENT 1
EU 1
EU Membership 1
EU membership 1
Ecconomy 1
Ecomomy 1
Ecomony 2
Econamy 1
Econemy 1
Economic Collapse 1
Economic Crisis 1
Economic Recovery 1
Economic Stability of the UK 1
Economic crisis 1
Economic downturn 1
Economic situation 2
Economics 2
Economy 250
Economy & Recession 1
Economy (+immigration) 1
Economy and GDP 1
Economy and national debt 1
Economy situation 1
Economy, 1
Economy, Afghanistan, immigration, electoral reform 1
Economy, national debt etc 1
Economy. 2
Economy/deficit 1
Economy/employment 1
Education 4
Elected Leadership 1
Election 1
Election result hung parliament 1
Electoral Reform 1
Electoral reform 3
Electoral reform: "Democracy for the UK!! Coming some time, maybe (not) 1
Employment 1
Employment and Public services 1
Employment. 1
Ending the abortion holocaust. 1
Energy Security 1
English identity 1
Environment 5
Ermmmmm the hung parliament???? 1
Erosion of Civil Liberties 1
Establishing a Government 1
Europe 5
Excessive Moslem Immigration 1
Far too much immigration, which is causing strain to our emergency and health services. 1
Finance 1
Finances 2
Financial 1
Financial Crisis 2
Financial Deficit 1
Financial Economy 1
Financial Situation 1
Financial bankruptcy 1
Financial crisis 1
Financial deficit 2
Financial situation 2
Flooding 1
Foreign Policy 1
Foriegn workers from the EU 1
Forming a new government 1
Forming a strong government 1
Fundamental reform of the whole parliamentary system 1
GETTING RID OF GORDON BROWN!!!! 1
GLOBAL WARMING 1
George Osborne 1
Getting Brown out of Downing Street 1
Getting GB out of No.10 1
Getting a governent in 1
Getting a government together 1
Getting a new government! 1
Getting a stable government and getting rid of Brown as PM 1
Getting a stable government to sort out the economy 1
Getting our finances right 1
Getting out of the EU 2
Getting rid of Brown 1
Getting rid of Labour 1
Getting the economy on track 1
Global Financial Crisis 1
Global Warming 3
Global climate change 1
Global financial crisis 1
Global warming 4
Good health services 1
Gordon Brown 2
Gordon Brown still being Prime Minister despite loosing the election 1
Gordon Browns Impotence as PM 1
Government borrowing 1
Government cuts 1
Government debt 1
Government deficit 1
Government national debt 1
Greece and European finance (Euro) 1
Health service 1
Health service, Immiration, pensions 1
Healthcare 1
Housing 2
How Business & the markets are out of control 1
Huge government debt 1
Hung Parliament 3
Hung Parliament! 1
Hung election 1
Hung government 1
Hung parliament 7
Hung parliament! 1
I think we should leave the European Common Market, otherwise the Economy 1
ID Cards 1
IMIGRATION 1
IMMAGRATION 2
IMMERGRATION 1
IMMIGRATION 15
IMMMIGRATION 1
Illegal Immigrants 2
Illegal immigration 1
Imagration 1
Imergrants 1
Imigration 4
Imigration, Finance, 1
Immigraion 1
Immigrants 1
Immigration 146
Immigration - both legal and illegal 1
Immigration / EU 1
Immigration and Asylum 1
Immigration from the EU 1
Immigration specifically Moslems 1
Immigration, including European immigrants 1
Immigration/Asylum Seekers 1
Immirgration 1
Immmigration 1
Incompetent politicians whose main concern is the thickness of their wallets. 1
Increase in crime 1
Indecision over who is leading the country 1
Indicting Blair for war crimes 1
Inequality 1
Interest rates 1
Involvement in Europe 1
Islam 1
Jobs 3
Keeping Tories Out 1
Labour shafted the economy 1
Labour's mismanagement. 1
Lack of a government 1
Lack of affordable housing 1
Leadership 2
Litter 1
Loss of civil liberties 1
Loss of traditional industries and over reliance on the city 1
MEMBERSHIP OF EUROPEAN UNION 1
MONEY 1
Maintaining the economic recovery 1
Massive deficit 1
Membership of EU 1
Membership of the EU 1
Membership of the EU. 1
Morally bankrupt politicians arguing about who has power 1
Muslim Immigration & Militant Islam 1
Must cut red tape 1
N.H.S 1
NATIONAL DEBT 1
NHS 3
Nation Debt 1
National Debt 11
National and personal debt 1
National debt 10
National economy 1
Need to withdraw from the EU. 1
New Government 1
No Industry 1
No clear Parliamentary majority 1
No clear government 1
No government 1
No proper result. Stability of government and economy. 1
No strong leadership. 1
None 1
Our countries debt 1
Our economy 1
Our membership of the EU 1
Our unfair voting system 1
Outcome of the General election. Everything else follows from that. 1
Over subscription to welfare 1
Overpopulation 2
POVERTY 1
PR 2
Pension provision 1
Pensions 2
Pensions and retirement 1
Plight of Old Age Pensioners 1
Political reform 1
Poor standards of education 1
Population overcrowding/immigration 1
Poverty 1
Poverty of low income workers 1
Preventing a Conservative Government taking power 1
Probably new Tory Government 1
Proper government 1
Proportional Representaion 1
Proportional Representation 1
Public Service cuts 1
Public debt 1
Public sector overspending and public sector borrowing 1
Public sector waste 1
Quangos 1
Racism / rise of BNP 1
Re-establishment of an English Parliament 1
Recession 5
Recession and its economic problems 1
Recovering from recession 1
Recovery, which will be put at risk by large cuts. 1
Reducing UK debt 1
Reducing national debt 1
Reducing the deficit 1
Reform of the Electoral System 1
Reform of the Voting Process 1
Religion 1
Rising inflation. 1
Rising unemployment 1
STATE OF COUNTRY 1
Scotland's Independence 1
Scottish independence 1
Selfish Greed 1
Several!! 1
Size of government 1
Sorting out the new hung parliament 1
Sorting out who governs and dealing with the country's debts 1
Sorting out who is going to form the next government 1
Soveriegn debt 1
Stability 1
State of economy 1
State of the economy 1
Strong Government 1
THE ECONOMY 4
THE RECESSION 1
TOO MUCH POLITICAL CORRECTNESS 1
Taking God out of the picture and trying to do things man's way which is not working. 1
Taxation 4
Taxes 1
Te huge national debt 1
Teenage Crime 1
Teenage murders 1
Terirsme, Econemy, crime. 1
Terrorism 1
Tha deficit 1
That LABOUR POLITICIANS play no part in government 1
The "hung" parliament 1
The Benefits Culture 1
The Budget deficit 1
The Conservative Government(hopefully!) having to water down its necessary reforms because of imposed collaboration with maybe LibDems 1
The Conservative government threatening to take over Parliament 1
The Deficit 3
The EU 1
The Econamy 1
The Econemy 1
The Economic Crisis 2
The Economic Situation 1
The Economy 56
The Economy / Imigration 1
The Economy and the deficit 1
The Election of a stable government 1
The Environment 2
The Financial Dificit 1
The Hung Parliament - who will govern the country 1
The National Debt 4
The National Debt situation 1
The National debt 1
The Tory Lib Dem being in the same bed 1
The UK Economy and the National debt. 1
The UK and world financial crisis and our debit situation 1
The UK has woken up today to face a ghastly mess. We've been precipitated into this abysmal political crisis and disarray, as I see it, principally because of the three (inexplicable and entirely undeserved) landslide victories won by Nu-Labour since 1997 1
The budget deficit 1
The coalition's cuts 1
The corrupt and failed westminster parliament 1
The counties debt 1
The countries debt 1
The country is broke 1
The country's debt 1
The danger to the country of a hung parliament 1
The debt facing the country. 1
The defecit 1
The deficit 2
The deficit and National Debt 1
The econnomy 1
The economic crisis 2
The economic deficit 1
The economic mess 1
The economic mess Brown has got us into 1
The economic recovery 1
The economic situation 2
The economy 100
The economy - how to reduce defecit and debt 1
The economy and the deficit 1
The economy and the huge deficit 1
The economy and, in particular, the national debt 1
The economy, with a loss of wealth creating industry 1
The economy. 1
The economy/recession 1
The election result! 1
The environment 1
The fact that we cannot get a government together properly 1
The fact that we're in a hung parliament and the nation is in limbo for four years now 1
The fast approaching economic meltdown with nobody in place to meet it with resolution. 1
The financial crisis, and how it is going to be solved before we are plunged into an even deeper recession. 1
The financial mess caused by failing banks. 1
The financial mess that we are in. 1
The financial position. 1
The frightening prospect of a Tory led government 1
The government 2
The government we do not seem to have anyone who can sort the mess we are in 1
The government! 1
The growing Muslim community 1
The huge debt we are facing 1
The huge deficit 1
The huge financial deficit created by Gordon Brown 1
The hung parliament issue 1
The increasing disparity in wealth 1
The labour government 1
The level of government debt 1
The level of national debt 1
The national debt 2
The national economy is the most important issue. 1
The need to get out of Europe 1
The next government 1
The obsession with the myth that CO2 is causing potentially catastrophic global warming. 1
The past and present Goverments. 1
The prospect of a conservative government 1
The refusal of Gordon Brown to acknowledge that the Conservatives have the greatest number of seats and votes! 1
The shocking state of the roads infrastructure due to a decade of underinvestment 1
The size of the national debt. 1
The spending deficit 1
The state of the Economy 1
The state of the economy 1
The state of the nation's finances 1
The state of the national economy 1
The surveillance state 1
The tories 1
The uncertainty of who is actually in power!! 1
The war in Afganistan 1
The war in Afghanistan. 1
The way Social Security Claimants are being treated 1
The way that Britain has fallen so badly, inline with Greece, Portual and Span 1
The worry that the Lib Dems might form a coalition with Labour 1
Thev economy 1
To begin looking at the future rather than the past 1
To find a workable solution to the hung parliament situation 1
Too many immigrants 1
Too many to put down 1
Tories gaining power 1
Tory mismanagement of the national debt 1
Trust in our representatives 1
Two party system 1
UK Debt 1
UK economy 1
UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION 1
Un-employment and the recession 1
Unemployment 6
Unemployment and restoration of High Interest rates by the Tories 1
Unemployment for the over 50s 1
Unregulated Immigration 1
Violent Crime 1
When will Gordon Brown move out of 10 Downing Street 1
Whether we'll have a Conservative minority govt. or a Lib/Lab coalition 1
Which Parties will form the next Government. 1
Who forms a Government 1
Who forms the next government 1
Who governs! 1
Who is going to Govern the country and the national debt. 1
Who is going to run the country. 1
Who will lead us 1
Who'll run government 1
Work 1
World economic crisis 1
Youth and education - getting to and engaging them before they get out of control 1
a decent Government to run Great Britain 1
a government that does not listen to its people 1
a hung parlement 1
a hung parliament 2
a lack of long term thinking 1
a secure government 1
a stable Government 1
a stable government 1
acnomic 1
afghanistan 3
all the illegal immigrants that keep coming in to our contry an getting free houses an health services for nothing !! 1
anti social behaviour 2
anti-social behaviour. 1
asylum seekers 2
asylum/immigration 1
bankrupcy 1
benefits and immigration 1
britains money problems 1
broken britain 1
brown 1
budget deficit 5
budget deficit thingy 1
capitalism 1
care of the elderly 2
cash crisis 1
ck 1
clearing the debt 1
climate change 7
coalition government 1
conservative goverment 1
conservetive getting into downing street 1
constitutional reform 1
corrupt politicians 1
corruption 2
cost of living 1
country debt 1
country's debt 2
credit crisis 1
credit crunch 1
crime 27
crime and lack of justice 1
crime,anti social behaviour 1
debt 24
debt &economy 1
debt and immigration 1
debt crisis 1
debt immagration 1
debt national and personel 1
debt natonal and individuals 1
debt, crime, employment 1
defacit 1
deficit 10
deficit and cuts in public spending 1
deficit reduction 1
deficit/national debt 1
democracy 1
depression 1
difficulty in forming a government 1
disipline and standards 1
dk 79
drug abuse 1
drug related crime 1
drugs 3
e3conomy 1
eastern europeans 1
ecconomy 3
ecomony 1
ecomony and budget deficit 1
econamey 1
econamy 1
econemy 1
economey 1
economic 2
economic crises 1
economic crisis 2
economic downturn 2
economic future 1
economic growth 1
economic instability 1
economic recovery 6
economic situation 6
economic situation worldwide 1
economic stability 1
economics 1
economy 416
economy & national debt mountain 1
economy / wealth of population 1
economy and goverment 1
economy and government debt 1
economy and immigration 1
economy immigration 1
economy, the debt and the deficit 1
economy/ deficit 1
economy/national debt 1
econonmy 1
education 5
education in schools 1
election confusion 1
election reform 1
election result 1
electoral reform 5
emigration 1
employment 5
energy supply 1
enviroment econonmy 1
environment 5
europe 5
every thing 1
everything 1
excess spending on "defence" inc. Afghanistan 1
f 1
fair votes 1
fairness across all sectors of humanity 1
fiat currency 1
financail debt 1
finance 8
finance and pensions 1
financial 1
financial crisis 6
financial deficit 3
financial probity 1
financial situation 2
financial situation and resulting unemployment 1
financial stability 1
forming a functional government 1
forming a government 3
fuel poverty 1
fuel price 1
get rid of Brown 1
getting a goverment 2
getting a stable and efficient leadership 1
getting a strong goverment 1
getting conservatives to form government 1
getting education in better order 1
getting out of debt and giving pensioners more help 1
getting out of the E.U and the economy 1
getting out of the EU 2
getting politicians to work together 1
getting rid of labour 1
getting rid of the deficit without affecting the lower paid too much 1
getting the country out of debt 1
global warming 4
gordon brown and the labour government 1
government debt 1
government finances 1
govt borrowing 1
handling the economy 1
having conservatives in 1
health services 1
health system 1
healthcare job cuts 1
high cost of living 1
house of commons 1
housing 1
housing for first time buyers, the economy, immigration 1
hung Parliament 1
hung goverment 1
hung government 1
hung parliament 15
hung parliament and another term of Gordon Brown 1
hung parliament not solving budget deficit problem 1
hung parliment 8
hung-parlament 1
iLLEGAL IMMIGRATION 1
iMMIGRATION 1
if mps carnt decide who runs the country what chance has england got. like over grown school kids you not playing cos our ball . 1
ignorance 1
illegal drugs coming into our country causing endless problems with health, crime and other countries getting rich at our expense 1
illegal imigration 1
illegal immigration, benefit fraud,jobless persons 1
illegalimmigrants 1
illigal immigrants 1
imagration 2
imagration. (This is wasting money that could better our lives and get us out of the debt that we are currently placed in. 1
imergration 2
imigrants 1
imigrants & EU people 1
imigration 17
imigrations 1
immagration 2
immegration 1
immergration 3
immergrets 1
immgration 4
immigrant population 1
immigrants 4
immigratiom.econamy 1
immigration 245
immigration and breakdown of society 1
immigration and europe 1
immigration and huge debt 1
immigration and terror 1
immigration and terrorism 1
immigration cost 1
immigration levels 1
immigration particularly from EU 1
immigration, nhs,crime 1
immigration, unemployment 1
immigration. 1
immigration/muslims taking over 1
improving economy (prior to making cuts). 1
inequality in income and wealth 1
inflation 3
interest rates 1
islam 1
islamification of britain 1
jobs 4
jobs and the economy 1
keeping labour in power 1
keeping the economy rising 1
lack of a goverment 1
lack of a government 1
lack of affordable housing 1
lack of democracy 1
lack of government 1
lack of government majority 1
lack of leadership 1
lack of majority government 1
lack of respect and discipline 1
lack of solid certain government 1
law & order 1
law and order 2
law and sentencing, social services ok people and young alike, cost of living 1
law-immagration 1
lawlessness in the young 1
lazy people on benefits 1
legalised abortion - should never have happened. 1
liberal conservative con artists 1
loss of civil liberties 1
lots 1
maintaining the hunting ban 1
making sure the banks that we have a share in are not let of the hook with the money they are lent to get them out of the mess they have got the country in. 1
manufacturing 1
mass immigration 1
mass uncontrolled immigration 1
membership of the EU 1
membership of the European Union 1
migrant workers 2
minority government/hung parliament 1
misuse of taxpayers money e.g. MPS expenses, civil servants and civic dignitries expenses 1
money 4
money and services 1
money situation 1
moral decline 1
national debt 22
national dept 1
national health service 1
national indebtedness/economy 1
nationall debt 1
new election procedures 1
new goverment 1
new government 2
nhs 4
nhs cuts 1
no affordable homes for first time buyers 1
no pm. 1
none 7
not having a functioning government 1
other world issues 1
our tie in with the EU 1
ousting gordon brown 1
over population 2
overcrowding 1
overpopulation 2
oversized bureaucracies within public services 1
paying off teh national debt 1
paying off the deficit 1
pensions 1
pensions, 1
petrol price 1
plight of pensioners 1
political reform 2
politicians who dont make decisions based on what the public actually wants, which is not democratic at all 1
politics 1
pollution 1
poverty 3
problem with tories in power 1
proportional representation 1
public borrowing total 1
public lack of trust in our politicians 1
public services 2
public spending cuts 2
recesion 1
recession 15
recession/budget deficit 1
reducing budget deficit 1
reform of voting system 1
removing global ignorance and congenital stupidity 1
restoring the link of old age pensions to salaries 1
rural issues 1
self interest 1
social disaffection 1
social responsibility 2
social solidarity 1
society values 1
sorting out the finances 1
sorting out who is going to run the country 1
sorting out who is to govern 1
sovereignity 1
spiritual,moral & economic morass 1
state of our finances 1
state of the economy 2
stop the tories 1
stopping immigration 1
taking the opportunity of the 2010 election result to refrom the political and voting system 1
tax 2
taxation 3
taxation / economy 1
taxes 1
taxes/debt 1
terrorism 11
terrorism risk 1
that the coalition works... 1
the Economy 1
the Economy, especially the defecit 1
the breakdown in the structure of society in the UK. 1
the collapse in the economies of some euro countries and the impact that has on uk 1
the conservatives 1
the continued membership of the undemocratic eu 1
the cost of living 1
the country's debt 1
the country's deficit 1
the countrys debt 1
the defecit 1
the deficate 1
the deficit 4
the ecomomy 2
the ecomonicany 1
the ecomony 1
the econmy 1
the economey 1
the economic situatioin 1
the economic situation 1
the economic stuation 1
the economy 127
the economy & immigration 1
the ecoonomy 1
the elaction 1
the enormous deficit in the economy 1
the enviroment 1
the environment 1
the eu 1
the financal state of the contry 1
the financial 1
the financial deficit 1
the financial horrorshow left by labour 1
the government 1
the government and who is in charge 1
the growing divide between rich and poor 1
the hung parliament 9
the hung parliment 1
the national debt 4
the national deficit/debt 1
the new government 1
the overall debt and taxs 1
the possibility of a Conservative/Lib Dem coalition 1
the pound 1
the prospect of a P.R P.M who has the support of just over a third of the electorate 1
the recession 2
the recovery 1
the state of the economy 1
the tory government 1
the torys getting power 1
the war in iraq 1
threat of terrorism 1
to get the economy looking more healthy 1
too many 2
too many immigrnats using all our benefits, doctors apptand social housing 1
too many people aloud in 1
trust in the politicians 1
uk debt 2
uk's debt 1
uncertain leadership 1
uncontrolled immigration 2
unemployment 22
unemployment, Pensions, and money 1
various not single 1
vxcv c 1
war 3
war , money 1
war in Afghanistan 1
war in afghanistan/iraq 1
welfare abuse 1
welfare state 1
what is going to happen to the country with coalition gov 1
who is going to run the country 1
who is in charge 1
who is the government 1
who will be in charge of the country 1
who will be prime minister 1
who will form the next government 2
whos going to pm 1
whos running the country!! 1
work 1
work for teenagers 1
yes lots 1
yob culture 2
yobs 1
youth crime 2
youth culture 1
youth disaffection 1
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.