British Election Study 2001/02

British Election Study 2001/02


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Datasets

NB This page allows access to the initial release versions of the various datasets generated by the different components of the 2001-02 British Election Study. A full and clean set of datasets will be submitted to the UK Data Archive later this spring. In the meantime, anything that needs to be added or changed will, as soon as possible, be added to or changed in the files accessible via this page. However, as an additional safeguard, a list of these errors and changes can be viewed by following the link.

Files for downloading

  • The first file is a brief primer on using the datasets, providing guidelines on how the variables are labelled, and on which are the relevant weights and filters to use with different components of the BES 2001-02.

  • The second file is an Excel spreadsheet, nicknamed the 'Rosetta Stone', which provides a comparative listing of the different samples, weights and questions used in the various components of the BES 2001-02. NOTE: This file is in the process of being updated to incorporate the follow-up survey and some minor alterations.


    Next, the data themselves. There are three principal surveys involved here: the main British pre- and post-election panel survey, the Northern Ireland election survey, and the campaign survey. For each survey, there are datasets in SPSS portable format and also summary tables in Word format.

    If you are experiencing problems downloading the datasets, please click on this link; if this still doesn't help, please e-mail the Data Administrator at the BES in Essex.

  • British election survey

    British election survey cross-section datafile (including constituency-level information for aggregate-level analyses)
    This stand-alone cross-section is the equivalent of the main datafiles resulting from previous BES

    British election survey panel datafile

    This panel file contains data from the pre-election, post-election, and follow-up surveys

    British election survey panel datafile (including constituency-level information for aggregate-level analyses)

    (NOTE: This file does not yet contain data from the follow-up survey)

    British election survey panel datafile - Scottish respondents only 

    British election survey panel datafile - Welsh respondents only

    Pre-election survey summary tables

    Post-election survey summary tables


  • Northern Ireland election survey

    Northern Ireland election survey datafile

    Northern Ireland election survey summary tables


  • Campaign telephone survey

    Campaign survey data (including weights and filters for rolling cross-sections)

    Campaign survey data (including constituency-level information for aggregate-level analyses)

    Pre-election campaign survey summary tables

    Post-election campaign survey summary tables



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