Citizens preference for voting rights in Europe

Ref. 1226

Dataset Overview

Dataset title

Citizens preference for voting rights in Europe

Dataset description language

English

Dataset Description

This survey documents citizen's preferences for different voting rights schemes in 26 European Countries (EU25 + Switzerland). The CAWI survey was conducted in 2019, before the European Parliament elections of May 2019. In 19 countries the sample is around n=500 respondents, but in seven (7) countries, which cover the geographical and institutional diversity across Europe, the sample is around n = 1'000 (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland). The survey includes only respondents who are both nationals and resdents of the country in which they are surveyed. It contains socio-demographic information of respondents, nationality/mobility statuses, political preferences, as well as a battery of questions of voting rights in national and European elections. SPSS file produced by the archive.

Remarks about the documentation

The codebook contains the variable descriptions with reference to the labels included in the raw dataset. The additionnal documentation (Excel-file) contains the party list in connection with variable Q12c.

System version number

1.0

Embargo end date

01.02.2021

Publication date

08.06.2021

Version notes

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Bibliographical citation

Elie Michel, Joachim Blatter: Citizens preference for voting rights in Europe [Dataset]. Universität Luzern. Distributed by FORS, Lausanne, 2021.

DIP MD5 hash

a5cc3467f2688459c0d1e427c21d45ff

Dataset contents

swissubase_1226_1_0.zip