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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

Variableccissue1
LabelPost-Election Most Important Issue-1
Responses
1 NHS 17
2 Education 11
3 Pensions 9
4 Spend, Other social 11
5 Unemployment 51
6 Taxation 13
7 Petrol Prices 2
8 Inflation 11
9 Economy General 1155
10 Crime 75
11 EURO, Europe 40
12 Transportation 1
13 Asylum 0
14 Environment 50
15 Dishonesty 20
16 Constitutional 0
17 International Probs 1
18 Leadership gen-neg 5
19 Pol values-left 12
20 Pol values-right 3
21 Election outcome 190
22 Low Turnout, Apathy 1
23 Immigration 520
24 Terrorism 20
25 Iraq War 0
26 Government Reform 8
27 Housing 7
28 Class Difference 11
29 Bush,USA-negative 0
30 Big Gov-negative 0
31 Loss-Manufac Ind 3
32 I.D. Cards 1
33 Aging Population 4
34 Strikes 0
35 Welfare Fraud 10
36 Consumer Debt 87
37 Lab Leadership-neg 13
38 Lab Gov-neg 2
39 Racial Tension 1
40 National Security 1
41 Drugs 6
42 Agriculture Issues 0
43 Failure of Religious 0
44 Nat Ident,goals-loss 3
45 Family Values-lack 6
46 Youth 9
47 UKIP-neg 0
48 UKIP-pos 0
49 School violence 0
50 Civil liberties 7
51 Morals 3
52 Rover crisis 0
53 Energy 3
54 Scot Const 2
55 Media 0
56 Banks 3
57 MP Scandal 0
58 War in Afghanistan 18
59 Deficit 187
60 Electoral Reform 25
80 Miscellaneous 0
98 DK, not sure 135
99 Refused 629
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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