British General Election Cross-Section Survey, 1992 (ICPSR 6453)

Version Date: Jan 18, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
A. F. (Anthony Francis) Heath; R. Jowell; J.K. Curtice; J.A. Brand; J.C. Mitchell

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06453.v1

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Summary

Respondents were interviewed for this cross-section survey following the 1992 British General Election. Part 1, Main Data File, covers the political and social attitudes and life experiences of the respondents, including their political interests and party preferences, opinions on comparisons between various parties, employment and union affiliations, and life satisfaction. Numerous questions are replications from previous British Election Studies and British Social Attitudes Surveys. The "international" scales in the cross-section personal interview questionnaire were taken from previous American National Election Studies. In addition, a split-sample experiment was conducted to detect whether there was a question-order effect, with respect to whether respondents were asked first about their vote and then about their party identification or vice versa. Demographic data such as sex, age, region, and religious preference appear in this file as well. Part 2, Sample Demographic File, includes information on sex, age, and region of residence for all 5,232 persons in the original sample.

Citation

Heath, A. F. (Anthony Francis), Jowell, R., Curtice, J.K., Brand, J.A., and Mitchell, J.C. British General Election Cross-Section Survey, 1992. ESRC Data Archive [distributor], Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06453.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

ESRC Data Archive, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1992

Date of Collection

1992

Data Collection Notes

  1. (1) These data were provided to ICPSR by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Archive, University of Essex, England. The data are disseminated, under an agreement with the ESRC, exactly as they were received without modification by ICPSR. This agreement also provides that ICPSR will disseminate the data only for use within its member institutions. (2) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

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Sample

A three-stage selection procedure was used. First, a sample of 218 constituencies was selected (159 in England and Wales and 59 in Scotland). Second, all polling districts within the selected constituencies were ordered in a logical sequence associated with the particular labelling system used within the constituency. Any polling district with fewer than 500 electors was combined with the one following it in this (circular) list to form one unit, so that addresses in any constituency would not be too tightly clustered. At the third stage, within each of the 218 selected polling districts, a sample of 24 electors was selected with equal probability, a random starting point being selected from random number tables and every nth elector chosen. Overall, a sample of 5,232 names was selected in this way (3,816 in England and Wales, and 1,416 in Scotland).

Universe

British resident adults on the electoral register and eligible to vote in the general election of April 1992.

Data Source

personal interviews, telephone interviews, and self-enumerated questionnaires

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Original Release Date

1996-10-08

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Heath, A. F. (Anthony Francis), R. Jowell, J.K. Curtice, J.A. Brand, and J.C. Mitchell. British General Election Cross-Section Survey, 1992. ICPSR06453-v1. Colchester, England: ESRC Data Archive/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 2018-01-29. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06453.v1

2006-01-18 File CB6453.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2004-07-09 Additional documentation has been added. All documentation is now available in PDF.

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