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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

Variablepost_m_a
LabelMost Important Issue - 2
Responses
1 Asylum seekers 83
2 EURO membership 0
3 Relations with EU 10
4 Law&order-crime 59
5 Education 25
6 Environment 8
7 NHS 63
8 House prices-Inflatn 8
9 Transport 2
10 Taxation 42
11 Economy 25
12 Energy 3
13 Poverty, living stds 20
14 Petrol prices 0
15 Iraq war 9
16 Terrorism 14
18 Immigration 79
19 Pensions 33
20 Social inequalities 1
21 Services-spending 7
22 Bush, USA-negative 6
23 Youth 2
24 Housing 3
25 Drugs 14
26 Big gov, gov ineff 2
27 Dishonesty-gov 10
28 Inter problems 1
29 Aging pop 2
30 Race tensions-racism 8
31 National security 2
32 Turnout, apathy 1
33 Lab leadership-neg 31
34 Welfare fraud 9
36 Consumer debt 2
37 Gordon Brown-pos 0
38 School discipline 6
40 Politics-neg 1
41 Civil Liberties 4
42 Unemployment 10
43 Keep Tories out 0
44 Values, Morality 0
50 Misc other 0
88 None, DK 0
99 NA 0
999 No 2nd, 3rd mention 5302
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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