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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

Variableaaissue2
LabelPre-Campaign Most Important Issue-2
Responses
1 NHS 4
2 Education 5
3 Pensions 6
4 Spend, Other social 4
5 Unemployment 20
6 Taxation 7
7 Petrol Prices 1
8 Inflation 3
9 Economy General 22
10 Crime 17
11 EURO, Europe 2
12 Transportation 0
13 Asylum 6
14 Environment 2
15 Dishonesty 5
16 Constitutional 0
17 International Probs 0
18 Leadership gen-neg 27
19 Pol values-left 1
20 Pol values-right 0
21 Election outcome 10
22 Low Turnout, Apathy 0
23 Immigration 20
24 Terrorism 4
25 Iraq War 0
26 Government Reform 1
27 Housing 0
28 Class Difference 10
29 Bush,USA-negative 1
30 Big Gov-negative 0
31 Loss-Manufac Ind 2
32 I.D. Cards 0
33 Aging Population 4
34 Strikes 0
35 Welfare Fraud 10
36 Consumer Debt 10
37 Lab Leadership-neg 5
38 Lab Gov-neg 17
39 Racial Tension 0
40 National Security 0
41 Drugs 4
42 Agriculture Issues 0
43 Failure of Religious 0
44 Nat Ident,goals-loss 2
45 Family Values-lack 2
46 Youth 9
47 UKIP-neg 0
48 UKIP-pos 0
49 School violence 0
50 Civil liberties 3
51 Morals 3
52 Rover crisis 0
53 Energy 0
54 Scot Const 0
55 Media 1
56 Banks 10
57 MP Scandal 4
58 War in Afghanistan 10
80 Miscellaneous 0
98 DK, not sure 0
99 Refused 3128
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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