Dutch Election Data, 1888-1917 (ICPSR 45)
Version Date: Feb 16, 1992 View help for published
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Jan Verhoef
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00045.v1
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This data collection contains voting information from percentagized election returns for each of the nine general elections to the Lower House (Tweede Kamer) of the Dutch Parliament in the period 1888-1917, as well as information on religious composition for all of the 100 municipalities of the Netherlands. Variables computed from the basic election statistics on the basis of a left-right dimension of the political parties provide information on the number and percentage of votes cast for the Conservatives, the Liberals, the Radicals, the Social-Democrats, the Anti-Revolutionary Party, the Catholics, and the other left-wing and right-wing parties. Additional variables provide information on age, the number of registered voters, and the total number of votes cast. Religious variables provide information on the percentage of the population associated with specific denominations, such as the Dutch Reformed Church, the Wallon Church, the New Lutheran Church, the Remonstrant Church, the Mennonite Church, the Christian Reformed Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Old Roman Catholic Church, the Jewish religion, and other churches and sects, including those with no religious association.
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The 100 districts of the Netherlands in the period 1888-1917.
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(1) Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics, (2) Dutch newspapers, 1888-1894, and (3) 1909 census of the Netherlands
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1984-06-20
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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:
- Verhoef, Jan. Dutch Election Data, 1888-1917 . ICPSR00045-v1. [distributor], 2020-01-15. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00045.v1
1984-06-20 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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