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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

British Election Study, 2010: Face-to-Face Survey

Variable Details

Variablecq20_4
LabelParties Divide Not Unite Country
Question text Now some questions about political parties in Britain, not any particular party, but political parties generally.Please cross one box on each line to show how much you agree or disagree with each of these statements. There is often a big difference between what a party promises it will do and what it actually does when it wins an election Political parties are more interested in winning elections than in governing afterwards The main political parties in Britain don’t offer voters real choices in elections because their policies are pretty much the same Political parties do more to divide the country than to unite it Political parties spend too much time bickering with each other Parties generally do a good job in finding well qualified people to run for Parliament In elections, political parties don’t tell people about the really important problems facing the country Being involved in a group like Greenpeace or the Countryside Alliance is a better way of influencing government than being active in a political party PLEASE CROSS ONE BOX ONE EACH LINE
Responses
-3 Not stated 24
1 Agree strongly 117
2 Agree 629
3 Neither agree nor disagree 617
4 Disagree 439
5 Disagree strongly 17
Sysmiss 1669
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationBritish Election Study, 2010: Face-to-Face Survey
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Electors resident in Great Britain during 2005.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample;See documentation for details.
Study TypeCross-sectional (one-time) study; The dataset contains both pre- and post-election survey waves.
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