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Responses from the 2010 British Election Study
Description
A survey of 1845 respondents using 3 waves of panel survey data from the 2010 British Election Study. The variables are as follows:
Format
A data frame with 5535 rows and 11 variables
Details
n case number
t time wave
Econ Assessment of change in the national economic situation over the past 12 months (1-5, 1=‘got a lot worse’, 5=‘got a lot better’)
Clegg Evaluation of Liberal Party leader Nick Clegg (0-10, 0=‘strongly dislike’ and 10=‘strongly like’)
Brown Evaluation of Labour Party leader Gordon Brown
Cameron Evaluation of Conservative Party leader David Cameron
Approve Approval of the government, as expressed by feeling about the ruling Labour Party (0-10, 0=‘strongly dislike’, 10=‘strongly like’)
NHS Assesment of the current government's handling of the National Health Service (1-5, 1=‘very badly’, 5=‘very well’)
Terror Assesment of the current government's handling of terrorism (1-5, 1=‘very badly’, 5=‘very well’)
PID Personal identification with the Labour Party (0/1, 0=‘no’, 1=‘yes’)
Tax Preference for policy on taxes and health and social spending (0-10, 0=‘cut taxes a lot and spend much less’, 10=‘increase taxes a lot and spend much more’)