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Appendix B - Data and Variables: Immigrant Turnout

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2010

Rafaela M. Dancygier
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
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Summary

The 2003 Home Office Citizenship Survey: People, Families and Communities contains a nationally representative sample of around 10,000 people over sixteen years of age living in England and Wales and an oversample of ethnic minorities of around 5,000 respondents.

Sample Used in Models

Respondents are British citizens born outside of the United Kingdom.

The (unweighted) sample contains 1,004 South Asian and 898 black respondents.

Dependent Variables

Local election turnout: “Can I check, did you vote in the last local council election?”

An answer of “yes” was coded as 1, and “no” was coded as 0.

General election turnout: “Can I check, did you vote in the last general election?”

An answer of “yes” was coded as 1, and “no” was coded as 0.

Independent Variables

The self-reported ethnic origins of the respondents (dummy variables) are listed here.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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