Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The politics of affluence and austerity
- 2 Tony's politics
- 3 Gordon's politics
- 4 ‘I agree with Nick’
- 5 Making political choices
- 6 Bearish Britain
- 7 Choosing how to choose
- 8 Performance politics and subjective well-being
- 9 Valence politics, austerity policies and electoral prospects
- Appendix A Design of the 2010 British election study
- Appendix B Measurement
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix B - Measurement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The politics of affluence and austerity
- 2 Tony's politics
- 3 Gordon's politics
- 4 ‘I agree with Nick’
- 5 Making political choices
- 6 Bearish Britain
- 7 Choosing how to choose
- 8 Performance politics and subjective well-being
- 9 Valence politics, austerity policies and electoral prospects
- Appendix A Design of the 2010 British election study
- Appendix B Measurement
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This appendix describes key variables in several models analyzed in various chapters. For additional information, please contact Harold Clarke: [email protected]. BES data, questionnaires and technical information are available for free download at: http://bes2009–10.org.
Key variables
Voting in the 2010 General Election: Respondents were asked: (a) ‘Talking to people about the General Election on May 6th, we have found that a lot people didn't manage to vote. How about you – did you manage to vote in the General Election?’ If a respondent indicated voting, they were asked: (b) ‘Which party did you vote for in the General Election?’ In the binomial logit analyses of Labour voting, Labour voters are scored 1 and voters for all other parties are scored 0. In the multinomial logit analyses of opposition party voting Conservative voters are scored 1, Liberal Democrat voters are scored 2, voters for all other parties except Labour are scored 3, and Labour voters are scored 4.
Partisanship: Partisan attachments are measured using the first question in the standard BES party identification sequence: ‘Generally speaking, do you think of yourself as Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat or what?’ Party identification variables are a series of 0– 1 dummies with ‘no’ and ‘don’t know’ responses designated as the reference category.
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- Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain , pp. 286 - 289Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013