Related Eurobarometer datasets:
- European Elections 2009:
Eurobarometer 69.2, 70.1, 71.1, 71.3, Flash 266 - European Elections 2004:
Eurobarometer 61.0, Flash 161 and 162 - European Elections 1999:
Eurobarometer 52.0, Flash 66 and 67 - European Elections 1994:
Eurobarometer 40, 41.0, 41.1 and 42 - European Elections 1989:
Eurobarometer 30, 31 and 31A - European Elections 1984:
Eurobarometer 21 and 22 - European Elections 1979:
Eurobarometer 11 and 12
EP Candidates & Members studies:
National surveys on European Elections in Germany are documented in the GESIS data catalogue.
European Election Studies (EES)
1989 and 1994
On occasion of European Elections the Eurobarometer regularly included questions on voting behaviour an related items, especially comprehensive in the context of the 1989 and 1994 eletions. In these two cases the European Election Study Research Group, as co-responsible investigator, produced harmonized and cumulative data sets which are archived and distributed by GESIS Data Archive.
The special release of data set(s) and codebook for the European Election Study 1994 (ZA2865) essentially consists of a survey conducted immediately after the European Parliament election of June 1994 in the framework of Eurobarometer 41.1 and a number of pertinent variables from the three related Eurobarometer waves conducted before and after the elections.
As a consequence the cumulative data set offers wide opportunities for comparative and longitudinal analyses of voter behaviour and voter orientations. Longitudinal analysis are particularly supported by the fact that the 1994 study contents are partially overlapping with those of the European Election Study 1989 (ZA 2320), which was originally stored at the Steinmetz Archive in Amsterdam (DANS-Steinmetzarchiev).
- Codebook EES 1994 - overview and detailed documentation of trend variables
- Order SPSS data and documentation
1999 ff.
Starting with the 1999 elections, the European Election Studies series is continued in a separate venture undertaken by the European Election Study Research Group. Nevertheless a large number of questions are identical to those used in the 1989 and 1994 studies, thus still permitting longitudinal comparisons. The Eurobarometer surveys or survey modules on European Elections 1999 ff. are conducted under exclusive responsibility of the European Commission.
- European Election Study 1999 (DANS urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-3bm-qcp)
- European Election Study 2004 (GESIS study id ZA4566)
Related websites
- European Election Studies Homepage - project information, studies, publications
- PIREDEU - a collaborative project on "Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union", including a comprehensive EES bibliography
- European Elections 2009 - the Center for Politics and Communication (CPC) in Amsterdam conducted surveys amongst a total of more than 50.000 Europeans (EU27) during the campaign and after the elections
- European Elections Database - compare election results in Europe across countries, NUTS regions and over time (maintained by NSD)
- Parties and Elections in Europe - context database on parliamentary elections in Europe since 1945 (election results, parliament compositions, link collection...)
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