Wave 4 of the 2014-2023 British Election Study Internet Panel
- March 2015 - March 2015
- N = 31,328
- Mode: Online survey
The March 2015 wave of the 2014-2023 British Election Study Internet Panel. Version 25.0.
Fieldhouse, E., J. Green., G. Evans., H. Schmitt, C. van der Eijk, J. Mellon and C. Prosser (2015) British Election Study Internet Panel Wave 4. DOI: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-8202-2 Download
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Variables
- 2005 GE turnout
- 2005 GE vote choice
- 2010 GE turnout
- 2010 GE vote choice
- 2015 GE turnout
- 2015 GE vote choice
- 2017 GE turnout
- 2017 GE vote choice
- 2019 GE turnout
- 2019 GE vote choice
- Achieve Reduce Immig: Conservatives
- Achieve Reduce Immig: Greens
- Achieve Reduce Immig: Labour
- Achieve Reduce Immig: Liberal Democrats
- Achieve Reduce Immig: None
- Achieve Reduce Immig: Plaid
- Achieve Reduce Immig: SNP
- Achieve Reduce Immig: UKIP
- Age
- Age completed formal education
- Age group
- Another party or candidate
- Approve: UK government
- Are you an employee or self-employed/an independent contractor? (W1-4 topup)
- Are your day-to-day activities limited because of a health problem or disability
- Attention to Politics
- Best party on most important issue
- British identity scale
- Business and industry supports referendum side
- Coalition governments are more effective than single party governments
- Coalition governments are more in tune with the public
- Conservative party or candidate
- Conservatives contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Conservatives united or divided
- Constituency vote intention
- Contacted by any political parties/campaigns in last 4 weeks?
- Contacted MP: Satisfied with response?
- Contacted MP: Since last General Election?
- Cost of Living getting higher or lower
- Cost of Living Important to Labour
- Cost of Living Important to Liberal Democrats
- Cost of Living Important to the Conservatives
- Cost of Living Important to UKIP
- Country
- Country of birth
- Crime Important to Labour
- Crime Important to Liberal Democrats
- Crime Important to the Conservatives
- Crime Important to UKIP
- Crime levels getting higher or lower
- Days respondent discusses politics
- Decided on General Election vote
- Did you supervise or were you responsible for the work of any other people? (W1
- Did your parent have employees?
- Did your parent supervise the work of any other people?
- Differences in incomes between rich and poor larger or smaller
- Dimension of MII
- Do you own or rent the home in which you live?
- Do you supervise or are you responsible for the work of any other people? (W1-4
- Do you use Facebook?
- Do you use Twitter?
- Does England get fair share from Union?
- Does Scotland get fair share from Union?
- Does the Conservative candidate live in the constituency?
- Does the Labour candidate live in the constituency?
- Does the Liberal Democrat candidate live in the constituency?
- Does the UKIP candidate live in the constituency?
- Does Wales get fair share from Union?
- During election campaign, get news on Twitter?
- Economic growth/Protecting the environment scale
- Economic optimism indicator: good time to buy big household items
- Economy doing better or worse
- Economy Important to Labour
- Economy Important to Liberal Democrats
- Economy Important to the Conservatives
- Economy Important to UKIP
- Education doing better or worse
- Education level
- Employed in creative and cultural industries
- Employed in creative and cultural industries (excluding IT)
- Employed in IT industry
- English identity scale
- Ethnic minorities: gap between life expectations and outcomes
- Ethnic minorities: MP would help if asked
- Ethnic minorities: MP would help if same ethnicity
- Ethnic minorities: non-white people discriminated against
- EU Referendum postal vote retro
- EU referendum turnout (earliest recorded)
- EU referendum vote (earliest recorded)
- European Integration scale (1990s version): Conservatives
- European Integration scale (1990s version): Greens
- European Integration scale (1990s version): Labour
- European Integration scale (1990s version): Liberal Democrats
- European Integration scale (1990s version): Plaid Cymru
- European Integration scale (1990s version): self
- European Integration scale (1990s version): SNP
- European Integration scale (1990s version): UKIP
- European Integration scale (ESS version): Conservatives
- European Integration scale (ESS version): Greens
- European Integration scale (ESS version): Labour
- European Integration scale (ESS version): Liberal Democrats
- European Integration scale (ESS version): Plaid Cymru
- European Integration scale (ESS version): self
- European Integration scale (ESS version): SNP
- European Integration scale (ESS version): UKIP
- Facebook political info: Candidates or parties
- Facebook political info: Someone you know personally
- Facebook political info: Someone you know personally
- Gender
- General economic retrospective evaluation: country
- General election postal vote retro
- General election vote intention (recalled vote in post-election waves)
- General election vote intention (squeezed)
- General election vote intention (unsqueezed)
- Gone too far: cuts to local services in my area
- Gone too far: cuts to NHS spending
- Gone too far: cuts to public spending
- Gone too far: measures to protect environment
- Gone too far: private companies running public services
- Green Party contacted by letter/leaflet
- Green Party contacted by telephone
- Green Party Contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Green party or candidate
- Green Party united or divided
- Green Party visited home
- Gross household income
- Gross personal income
- Handle most important issue: Conservatives
- Handle most important issue: Labour
- Handle most important issue: Liberal Democrat
- Handle most important issue: Plaid Cymru
- Handle most important issue: SNP
- Have felt angry about Conservatives
- Have felt angry about Greens
- Have felt angry about UKIP
- Have felt fear about Conservatives
- Have felt fear about Greens
- Have you worked in a paid job in the past? (W1-4 topup)
- Hopeful
- Hopeful
- How likely that vote makes difference in constituency
- How many employees did your parent have?
- How many of the people in your household are under 18?
- How many people work for your employer at the place where you work? (W1-4 topup
- How many people worked for employer in your most recent job? (W1-4 topup)
- How many people worked for your parent's employer?
- How successful is the Govt in dealing with national security
- How well government handling cost of living
- How well government handling crime
- How well government handling economy
- How well government handling education
- How well government handling immigration
- How well government handling NHS
- How well Labour would handle cost of living
- How well Labour would handle crime
- How well Labour would handle education
- How well labour would handle immigration
- How well Labour would handle the economy
- How well Labour would handle the NHS
- I understand the important issues at stake in the EU referendum
- Immigrants are a burden on the welfare state
- Immigration bad or good for economy
- Immigration enriches or undermines cultural life
- Immigration Important to Labour
- Immigration Important to Liberal Democrats
- Immigration Important to the Conservatives
- Immigration Important to UKIP
- Immigration levels getting higher or lower
- Important MP lives in local constituency
- Interest in General Election
- Interview Start Time
- Is your name on the electoral register?
- It doesn't matter which political party is in power
- It doesn't matter which political party is in power
- It is difficult to understand what happens in gov and politics
- It is every citizen's duty to vote in an election
- It is more difficult to know who to blame when parties govern in coalition
- It takes too much time and effort to be active in politics
- Join coalition with Conservatives: United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)
- Join coalition with Labour: United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)
- Keep submarines with nuclear weapons
- Know Angela Merkel's Waves 2-4
- Know Bashar al-Assad's job Waves 2-4
- Know Vladmir Putin's job Waves 2-4
- Labour contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Labour emotions: Afraid
- Labour emotions: Angry
- Labour emotions: Hopeful
- Labour party or candidate
- Labour united or divided
- Left/right position: Conservative
- Left/right position: Greens
- Left/right position: Labour
- Left/right position: Lib Dems
- Left/right position: Plaid Cymru
- Left/right position: Self
- Left/right position: SNP
- Left/right position: UKIP
- Lib Dems contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Liberal Democrat party or candidate
- Liberal Democrats emotions: Afraid
- Liberal Democrats emotions: Angry
- Liberal Democrats emotions: Hopeful
- Liberal Democrats united or divided
- Like/dislike: Bennett
- Like/dislike: British National Party (BNP)
- Like/dislike: Conservatives
- Like/dislike: David Cameron
- Like/dislike: Ed Miliband
- Like/dislike: Green Party
- Like/dislike: Labour
- Like/dislike: Liberal Democrats
- Like/dislike: Nick Clegg
- Like/dislike: Nicola Sturgeon
- Like/dislike: Nigel Farage
- Like/dislike: Plaid Cymru
- Like/dislike: Scottish National Party
- Like/dislike: United Kingdom Independence Party
- Like/dislike: Wood
- Likelihood to vote in general election
- Likelihood Win Local Constituency in GE: Conservatives
- Likelihood Win Local Constituency in GE: Green Party
- Likelihood Win Local Constituency in GE: Labour
- Likelihood Win Local Constituency in GE: Lib Dems
- Likelihood Win Local Constituency in GE: Plaid Cymru
- Likelihood Win Local Constituency in GE: SNP
- Likelihood Win Local Constituency in GE: UKIP
- Likely to win majority: Conservatives
- Likely to win majority: Labour
- MII (manually-coded/collapsed)
- MII manual coding
- Most people I know usually vote in general elections
- MP focused on national issues or constituency
- MP has local roots or is an outsider
- MP Independent-minded or party loyalist
- MPs look after Constituency interests
- National Security Important to Labour
- National Security Important to Liberal Democrats
- National Security Important to the Conservatives
- National Security Important to UKIP
- National security scale: Conservatives
- National security scale: Labour
- National security scale: Liberal Democrats
- National security scale: Plaid Cymru
- National security scale: SNP
- National security spending
- NHS doing better or worse
- NHS Important to Labour
- NHS Important to Liberal Democrats
- NHS Important to the Conservatives
- NHS Important to UKIP
- No Chance at Being Part of Next UK Govt: All Above
- No Chance at Being Part of Next UK Govt: Conservatives
- No Chance at Being Part of Next UK Govt: Green
- No Chance at Being Part of Next UK Govt: Labour
- No Chance at Being Part of Next UK Govt: Lib Dems
- No Chance at Being Part of Next UK Govt: Plaid
- No Chance at Being Part of Next UK Govt: SNP
- No Chance at Being Part of the Next UK Govt: UKIP
- None of these
- None of these
- None of these
- None of these
- None of These Important to Labour
- None of These Important to Liberal Democrats
- None of These Important to the Conservatives
- None of These Important to UKIP
- None of these parties contacted you in last 4 weeks
- NS-SEC social class analytic categories
- Number of people in household
- O*Net Job Zone Occupation Code
- Opinion on how to reduce deficit in next 3 years
- Opinion on necessity of deficit reduction in next 3 years
- Other leave campaign contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Other party contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Other remain campaign contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Other than on Twitter and Facebook, have you visited the website of a candidate
- Parent's education level
- Parent's highest level of education
- Parent's ns-sec analytic categories
- Parent's ns-sec sub-categories
- Parties cannot deliver on their promises when they govern in coalition
- Party ID if no party to first ID question
- Party identification
- People should vote for the party they like, even if it will not win
- Personal economic retrospective evaluation: household
- Plaid Cymru contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Plaid Cymru emotions: Afraid
- Plaid Cymru emotions: Angry
- Plaid Cymru emotions: Hopeful
- Plaid Cymru emotions: None of these
- Plaid Cymru party or candidate
- Plaid Cymru united or divided
- Politicians don't care what people like me think
- Politicians only care about people with money
- Preferences for English powers | English votes on English laws
- Preferences Ranked: Conservative Coalition
- Preferences Ranked: Conservative Majority
- Preferences Ranked: Labour Led Coalition
- Preferences Ranked: Labour Majority
- Preferences Ranked: Other Government
- Preferred seat distribution: majority or proportional
- Probability of voting for BNP
- Probability of voting for Conservatives
- Probability of voting for Green party
- Probability of voting for Labour
- Probability of voting for Liberal Democrats
- Probability of voting for Plaid Cymru
- Probability of voting for Scottish National Party
- Probability of voting for UKIP
- Protect civil liberties or fight terrorism?
- Proud
- Proud
- Proud
- Proud
- Proud
- Proud
- Racial prejudice in Britain today
- Redistribution scale: Conservatives
- Redistribution scale: Green Party
- Redistribution scale: Labour
- Redistribution scale: Liberal Democrats
- Redistribution scale: Plaid Cymru
- Redistribution scale: Self
- Redistribution scale: SNP
- Redistribution scale: UKIP
- Region
- Respondent belonging to any religion?
- Respondent filled in registration form, or someone else
- Respondent was under 18 at time of wave 8
- Respondent's self-selected ethnicity
- Respondent's work status
- Responsible for cost of living: Conservatives in UK government
- Responsible for cost of living: Last Labour government
- Responsible for cost of living: Lib Dems in UK government
- Responsible for cost of living: None
- Responsible for cost of living: Scottish government
- Responsible for cost of living: Welsh government
- Responsible for crime: Conservatives in UK government
- Responsible for crime: Last Labour government
- Responsible for crime: Lib Dems in UK government
- Responsible for crime: None
- Responsible for crime: Scottish government
- Responsible for crime: Welsh government
- Responsible for economy: Conservatives in UK government
- Responsible for economy: Last Labour government
- Responsible for economy: Lib Dems in UK government
- Responsible for economy: None
- Responsible for economy: Scottish government
- Responsible for economy: Welsh government
- Responsible for education: Conservatives in UK government
- Responsible for education: Last Labour government
- Responsible for education: Lib Dems in UK government
- Responsible for education: None
- Responsible for education: Scottish government
- Responsible for education: Welsh government
- Responsible for GB debt: Conservatives in UK gov
- Responsible for GB debt: EU
- Responsible for GB debt: Global financial institutions
- Responsible for GB debt: last Labour gov
- Responsible for GB debt: Lib Dems in UK gov
- Responsible for GB debt: None in list
- Responsible for GB debt: Other
- Responsible for GB debt: Trade Unions
- Responsible for GB debt: UK banks
- Responsible for immigration: Conservatives in UK government
- Responsible for immigration: Last Labour government
- Responsible for immigration: Lib Dems in UK government
- Responsible for immigration: None
- Responsible for immigration: Scottish government
- Responsible for immigration: Welsh government
- Responsible for NHS: Conservatives in UK government
- Responsible for NHS: Last Labour government
- Responsible for NHS: Lib Dems in UK government
- Responsible for NHS: None
- Responsible for NHS: Scottish government
- Responsible for NHS: Welsh government
- Risk of poverty: times when won't have enough money
- Risk of unemployment
- Satisfaction with English democracy
- Satisfaction with EU democracy
- Satisfaction with Scottish democracy
- Satisfaction with the current system of registration
- Satisfaction with UK democracy
- Satisfaction with Welsh democracy
- School Important to Labour
- School Important to Liberal Democrats
- School Important to the Conservatives
- School Important to UKIP
- Scotland Q only: Approve: Scottish government
- Scotland Q only: Expectations about Scottish powers
- Scotland Q only: Independence referendum vote intention
- Scotland Q only: Preferences for Scottish powers
- Scotland Q only: Scottish identity scale
- Scotland Q only: Vote intention for Scottish Parliament | constituency
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: Defence
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: NHS
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: Police
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: Schools
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: Tax
- Scotland Q only: Which institution should decide: Welfare benefits
- Scottish Constituency Vote 2011
- Scottish Constituency Vote 2016
- Scottish referendum turnout (earliest recorded)
- Scottish referendum vote (earliest recorded)
- Scottish Regional Vote 2011
- Scottish Regional Vote 2016
- Shared political content on another website/online platform
- Shared political content on Facebook
- Shared political content on Twitter
- Shared political content through email
- Shared political content through instant messaging
- Should immigration level increase/decrease?
- Should there be another Scottish independence referendum within 10 years
- Signed up online to help a party or candidate
- SNP contacted by email
- SNP contacted by letter/leaflet
- SNP contacted by SMS
- SNP contacted by telephone
- SNP contacted in other ways
- SNP contacted in street
- SNP contacted you in last 4 weeks
- SNP emotions: Afraid
- SNP emotions: Angry
- SNP emotions: Hopeful
- SNP emotions: None of these
- SNP emotions: Proud
- SNP party or candidate
- SNP visited home
- Social Grade
- Strength of party identification
- Stronger in contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Time follows politics in newspapers (including online)
- Time follows politics on the internet (not including newspapers)
- Time follows politics on the radio
- Time follows politics on TV
- Time follows politics talking to other people
- Too many people these days like to rely on government handouts
- Trust MPs in general
- Trust own MP
- Twitter political info: Other people (e.g. commentators, journalists etc)
- Twitter political info: Someone you know personally
- UKIP contacted you in last 4 weeks
- UKIP emotions: Afraid
- UKIP emotions: Hopeful
- UKIP emotions: None of these
- UKIP party or candidate
- UKIP united or divided
- Understands the important political issues facing our country
- Vote leave contacted you in last 4 weeks
- Voting for small parties is wasting a vote
- Wales Q only: Approve: Welsh government
- Wales Q only: Preferences for Welsh powers
- Wales Q only: Preferences for Welsh powers
- Wales Q only: Vote intention for Welsh Assembly | constituency
- Wales Q only: Welsh identity scale
- Wales Q only: Which insitution should decide: Tax
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: Defence
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: Justice
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: NHS
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: Police
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: Schools
- Wales Q only: Which institution should decide: Welfare
- Was your parent an employee or self-employed?
- Weight variable for the GB sample as a whole (Everyone who took wave 2)
- Welfare too high or too low?
- Welsh Constituency Vote 2016
- Welsh Regional Vote 2016
- Were you an employee or self-employed/an independent contractor? (W1-4 topup)
- What is the highest educational or work-related qualification you have?
- What is the party of your MP?
- What is your current marital or relationship status?
- What kind of organisation do you work for?
- What type of organisation did your parent work in?
- When someone is unemployed, it's usually through no fault of their own
- Which daily newspaper do you read most often?
- Which of the following best describes your sexuality?
- Which of these best describes what you were doing last week? (W1-4 topup)
- Which parties helped: Conservatives
- Willing to Join Coalition with Conservatives: Greens
- Willing to Join Coalition with Conservatives: Lib Dems
- Willing to Join Coalition with Conservatives: Plaid
- Willing to Join Coalition with Conservatives: SNP
- Willing to Join Coalition with Labour: Greens
- Willing to Join Coalition with Labour: Lib Dems
- Willing to Join Coalition with Labour: Plaid
- Willing to Join Coalition with Labour: SNP
- Would cost of living be getting higher/lower under Labour
- Would crime be getting higher/lower under Labour
- Would economy be doing better/worse under Labour
- Would immigration be geting higher/lower under Labour
- Would NHS be doing better /worse under Labour
- Would schools be doing better/worse under Labour
- Would Successfully Reduce Inequality: Conservatives
- Would Successfully Reduce Inequality: Greens
- Would Successfully Reduce Inequality: Labour
- Would Successfully Reduce Inequality: Liberal Democrats
- Would Successfully Reduce Inequality: None
- Would Successfully Reduce Inequality: Plaid
- Would Successfully Reduce Inequality: SNP
- Would Successfully Reduce Inequality: UKIP
- Would Try to Reduce Immigration: Conservatives
- Would Try to Reduce Immigration: Greens
- Would Try to Reduce Immigration: Labour
- Would Try to Reduce Immigration: Liberal Democrats
- Would Try to Reduce Immigration: None
- Would Try to Reduce Immigration: Plaid
- Would Try to Reduce Immigration: SNP
- Would Try to Reduce Immigration: UKIP
- Would Try to Reduce Inequality: Conservatives
- Would Try to Reduce Inequality: Greens
- Would Try to Reduce Inequality: Labour
- Would Try to Reduce Inequality: Liberal Democrats
- Would Try to Reduce Inequality: None
- Would Try to Reduce Inequality: Plaid
- Would Try to Reduce Inequality: SNP
- Would Try to Reduce Inequality: UKIP
Additional information
- Study team
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Ed Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoff Evans, Hermann Schmitt, Cees van der Eijk, Jonathan Mellon and Christopher Prosser
- Spatial coverage
- GB
- Date published
- 2015-03-29
- Last modified
- 2024-02-12
- Publisher
- British Election Study
- Identifier
- https://www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-object/preliminary-wave-4-of-the-2014-2017-british-election-study-internet-panel/
- URL
- https://www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-object/preliminary-wave-4-of-the-2014-2017-british-election-study-internet-panel/
- Temporal coverage
- 2015-03-06/2015-03-29