OrthoPanels (version 1.2-4)

BES_panel: 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’)