THE 2005 BES COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ELECTORAL SYSTEMS
(CSES) SURVEY DATA
CURRENT RELEASE: JUNE 7, 2005
CSES
Questionnaire
(requires Adobe Acrobat)
CSES Survey Data - SPSS zip
CSES
Survey Data - Stata zip
CSES
Memo (requires
Adobe Acrobat)
THE 2005 BES COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ELECTORAL SYSTEMS
(CSES) SURVEY DATA
CURRENT RELEASE: FEBRUARY 24, 2006
This is the
current release of the 2005 BES Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
(CSES) survey
data. The survey implements CSES Module 2, which is designed to run
in national
election studies carried out during the 2001-2006 period. As per instructions
on the CSES
website (www.umich.edu/~cses), the CSES question module was
administered as an
uninterrupted block. Additional BES questions were administered
after the CSES
block, and before demographics.
The 2005 BES CSES
data were gathered in a Britain-wide internet survey carried out by
YouGov under the
supervision of Research Director, Joe Twyman. The survey was
conducted after
the May 5th general election, over the period May16th to May31st.
Nearly 90% of the
interviews were completed between May 16th and May 18th.
1.
Data
Files: You may download either an SPSS
file (YGCSESR4.SAV) or a STATA
file
(YGCSESR4.DTA). Users requiring the data in other formats may contact Harold
Clarke (hclarke@utdallas.edu)
for assistance. Alternatively, they may use data
conversion
programs such as DBMSCOPY or STAT Transfer to translate the data into
the format
required.
2.
Sample
Size: The unweighted N = 3326.
3.
Weights:
W8 is the standard YouGov weight which includes a past-vote factor;
W8NONPOL is a
demographic factors only weight. Using either of these weights, N =
3375.
4.
Question
Wording: Wording of questions
asked in the survey is available in a document that
can be downloaded
from the BES website. Wording of questions in the CSES module is taken
from a document on
the CSES website, with additional guidance from wording of the CSES
module in the 2004
American National Election Study (ANES) post-election survey instrument.
5.
Comments,
Questions, Problems? Please
contact BES Research Officer, Kristi Winters at
kwinte@essex.ac.uk
The BES office telephone number at the University of Essex is
01206873346.
The British Election Study 
