British Columbia Election Study, 1979-1980 (ICPSR 9019)

Version Date: Jan 10, 2007

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Principal Investigator(s):
David J. Elkins, University of British Columbia. Department of Political Science; Donald E. Blake, University of British Columbia. Department of Political Science; Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia. Department of Political Science

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09019.v2

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Summary

This survey consists of interviews with 1,051 respondents conducted in the summer and fall of 1979 following the May 10 (provincial) and May 22 (federal) elections, and 808 telephone reinterviews in February 1980 immediately after the federal election of February 18, 1980. There are three types of data provided in this collection. The first includes extensive workforce participation information for respondent and household members, in-depth analysis of issue positions, links to party and other measures of voting, party identification, political participation, political culture, and strategic or "sophisticated" voting. The second type of information involves electoral data from the polling divisions and constituencies in which respondents were interviewed. The third type of data pertains to the social composition of neighborhoods and was derived from the 1976 Census. Demographic information on each respondent includes age, sex, race, religion, birthplace, education, language spoken at home, and first language learned.

Citation

Elkins, David J., Blake, Donald E., and Johnston, Richard. British Columbia Election Study, 1979-1980. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-01-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09019.v2

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Funding

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) (410-78-0578, 410-81-0900)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

province

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1979 -- 1980

Date of Collection

1979-08 -- 1979-12, 1980-02 -- 1980-04

Data Collection Notes

  1. Please see documentation in the codebook regarding filter variables.

  2. Conducted by Canadian Facts, Ltd. Produced by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Ann Arbor, MI, 1983.

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Sample

The sample design was a multistage, stratified, cluster sample. Ten provincial ridings were pre-selected on the basis of political and geographical characteristics to give representation to interior, Vancouver Island, and metropolitan ridings, NDP and Social Credit strongholds as well as competitive ridings, and ridings divided by or contained with federal constituencies.

Universe

Persons aged 16 years and older living in British Columbia.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Source

(1) personal interview, (2) telephone interview, (3) Statement of Votes, Province of British Columbia, (4) Report of Chief Electoral Office, 1979-1980, Government of Canada, (5) 1976 Census of Canada

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1984-06-19

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:
  • Elkins, David J., Donald E. Blake, and Richard Johnston. British Columbia Election Study, 1979-1980. ICPSR09019-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-01-10. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09019.v2

2007-01-10 This study, updated from OSIRIS, now includes SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files, a SAS transport (XPORT) file, an SPSS portable file, a Stata system file, and an updated codebook.

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Weight

Please refer to documentation in the codebook for weighting information.

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Notes