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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

Variableaaissue1
LabelPre-Campaign Most Important Issue-1
Responses
1 NHS 34
2 Education 23
3 Pensions 20
4 Spend, Other social 28
5 Unemployment 109
6 Taxation 26
7 Petrol Prices 11
8 Inflation 28
9 Economy General 1516
10 Crime 179
11 EURO, Europe 42
12 Transportation 1
13 Asylum 6
14 Environment 55
15 Dishonesty 54
16 Constitutional 0
17 International Probs 1
18 Leadership gen-neg 7
19 Pol values-left 11
20 Pol values-right 1
21 Election outcome 15
22 Low Turnout, Apathy 1
23 Immigration 574
24 Terrorism 47
25 Iraq War 5
26 Government Reform 11
27 Housing 10
28 Class Difference 24
29 Bush,USA-negative 0
30 Big Gov-negative 0
31 Loss-Manufac Ind 10
32 I.D. Cards 2
33 Aging Population 13
34 Strikes 5
35 Welfare Fraud 27
36 Consumer Debt 80
37 Lab Leadership-neg 24
38 Lab Gov-neg 44
39 Racial Tension 6
40 National Security 5
41 Drugs 10
42 Agriculture Issues 0
43 Failure of Religious 4
44 Nat Ident,goals-loss 6
45 Family Values-lack 11
46 Youth 19
47 UKIP-neg 0
48 UKIP-pos 0
49 School violence 0
50 Civil liberties 14
51 Morals 10
52 Rover crisis 0
53 Energy 3
54 Scot Const 3
55 Media 1
56 Banks 15
57 MP Scandal 9
58 War in Afghanistan 23
80 Miscellaneous 1
98 DK, not sure 182
99 Refused 36
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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