Title: European Election Study 1999 P 1560 Steinmetz Archive documentation set version 1.0 Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services Joan Muyskenweg 25 P.O. Box 95 110 1096 CJ Amsterdam 1090 HC Amsterdam T +31 (0)20 462 8628 F +31 (0)20 668 5079 E [email protected] W www.niwi.knaw.nl (This file contains the technical documentation of the dataset; bibliographic information and the study description are available in the datacatalogue at our website http://www.niwi.knaw.nl) 1. Title page 2. Contents 3. Codebook 4. General Information 5. Data Collection 6. Variables 7. Weighting 8. Open Questionnaire 9. Political Parties 10. Media List Television 11. Media List Newspapers 12. Constructed variables 13. Results Elections 1999 14. Currency conversion 15. Region 16. Size of Town 17. Questionnaires European Election Study 1999 Cees van der Eijk in collaboration with Mark Franklin Wouter van der Brug Sören Holmberg Klaus Schönbach Renato Mannheimer Michael Marsh Hermann Schmitt Jacques Thomassen Bernhard Wessels Holli Semetko EES-99 EUROPEAN ELECTION STUDY 1999 DESIGN, DATA DESCRIPTION AND DOCUMENTATION Amsterdam, Steinmetz Archive / NIWI European Election Study Research Group March 2002 1 European Election Study 1999 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ASSISTENCE TO BE MADE BY USERS OF THE DATA PART I GENERAL INFORMATION 5 ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN Introduction and study design Organization and funding Publications and references 8 REPORT OF FIELDWORK General profile of the Survey Technical Implementation of the Survey Period of Fieldwork Sample Frame Selection of the Target person and the Problem of Secret Telephone Numbers Number of Call-backs Number ofInterviewers, Phone Studios, Supervisors Length of Interview Difficulty of the Interview Response and Non-response From Gross to Net Sample From Net Sample to the Completed Interviews 18 CLEANING AND DATA PREPARATION PART II VARIABLES 20 VARIABLE DESCRIPTION LIST 25 TEXT OF QUESTION FOR EACH VARIABLE — 1 — European Election Study 1999 PART III APPENDICES 44 Appendix 1 Weighting 47 Appendix 2 Coding of open-ended question 50 Appendix 3 Coding of political parties 57 Appendix 4 Coding of media – television 62 Appendix 5 Coding of media – newspapers 66 Appendix 6 Construction of added variables 68 Appendix 7 European election results June 1999 73 Appendix 8 European currency conversion rates June 1999 74 Appendix 9 Coding of regions 78 Appendix 10 Size of locality 80 Appendix 11 English Master Questionnaire PART IV QUESTIONNAIRES AS USED IN THE EU MEMBER-STATES 101 Austria 109 Belgium (Flemish version) 134 Belgium (French version) 157 Denmark 180 Finland 197 France 225 Germany 247 Greece 271 Ireland 287 Italy 298 Luxembourg (French version) 313 Luxembourg (Letzeburg version) 328 Netherlands 354 Portugal 372 Spain 390 Sweden 401 UK — 2 — European Election Study 1999 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ASSISTANCE TO BE MADE BY USERS OF THE DATA All manuscripts utilizing the data documented in this codebook should identify the original collectors of the data. All users are urged to include some adaptation of the following statement in their publication (the brackets indicate items which can be inserted or deleted as appropriate): The data utilized in this (publication) were originally collected for the European Election Study Workgroup, consisting of Cees van der Eijk, Klaus Schoenbach, Hermann Schmitt, Holli Semetko, Wouter van der Brug, Mark Franklin, Sören Holmberg, Renato Mannheimer, Jacques Thomassen and Berhanrd Wessels. Fieldwork was carried out by a consortium of European survey organizations, co-ordinated by IPSOS (Hamburg, GFR). This study has been made possible with grants from the University of Amsterdam, the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO, the Netherlands), The Bundespresseamt (Bonn, GFR), the CIS (Madrid, Spain), the University of Mannheim, the ISPO Institute (Milan, Italy) and Trinity College (Hartford. Conn., USA). Neither the original collectors of the data nor their sponsors bear any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations published here. The data are distributed by Steinmetz Archive, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and associated data-archives. In order to provide funding agencies with essential information about the use of the data that have been collected with their assistance, each user of the data is expected to send two copies of each completed manuscript (one copy if sent by email) to: European Election Study Workgroup c/o Steinmetz Archive / NIWI Joan Muyskenweg 25 1096 CJ Amsterdam the Netherlands e-mail [email protected] phone: +31 20 4628600 fax: +31 20 6658013 website of EES Workgroup: http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mfrankli/EES.html — 3 — European Election Study 1999 PART I GENERAL INFORMATION — 4 — European Election Study 1999 ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN Introduction and Study Design The European Election Study 1999 is a sample survey of the electorates of the member states of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United King- dom. It focusses in particular on the direct elections to the European Parliament, which were conducted in June 1999; and was fielded immediately following these elections. The questionnaires for the study were identical in the various member states, apart from minor but unavoidable differences generated by differences in party names and country- specific institutions. As a consequence the study offers wide opportunities for comparative analyses. Owing to a different form of data-collection (see below) the Italian data differ from the others in a number of minor ways which have been documented in this codebook. The contents of the questionnaire is described in brief in the VARIABLE DESCRIPT- ION LIST, and verbatim (in its English version) in the section containing the TEXT OF QUESTIONS IN QUESTIONNAIRES. Facsimiles of the questionnaires as they were used in the various EU member-states are provided where available as additional documentation. The number of interviews conducted in the different member-states of the European Union was as follows: Austria 501 Belgium 500 Flanders 274 Wallonia 226 Denmark 1001 Finland 501 France 1020 Germany 1000 Greece 500 Ireland 503 Italy 3708 Luxembourg 301 The Netherlands 1001 Portugal 500 Spain 1000 Sweden 505 United Kingdom 1008 Britain 977 N. Ireland 31 Total 13549 — 5 — European Election Study 1999 The coded data from the study have been organized in a single SPSS datafile, containing 13549 cases and 173 variables. The dataset includes identifying variables for member-state (VAR002) and, in view of the distinctiveness of the sub-national entities concerned, for political system (VAR003). In the latter, Flanders and Wallonia are distinguished within Belgium, as are Northern Ireland and Britain within the United Kingdom. By filtering or by selecting a subset on the basis of either of these variables, country- or system-specific files can easily be produced by the analyst. The responses to open ended questions concerning the most important problems facing one’s country are stored in verbatim form in a separate set of Excel files —one for each country— and are released in conjunction with the coded information in the SPSS file. Organization and Funding The European Election Study 1999 was organized by the EES Workgroup, an international group of researchers that, on the occasion of previous European elections in 1989 and 1994, organized similar surveys of the voting age population in the member states of the European Union (see, e.g., Schmitt, Pappi, van der Eijk, Scholz et al., 1997; van der Eijk, Oppenhuis, Schmitt, et al., 1993). In its preparation of the 1999 study, the group convened several times, in particular in Enschede (the Netherlands, July, 1997) and Mannheim (March, 1999). The group consisted of Wouter van der Brug (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Cees van der Eijk (idem), Mark Franklin (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA), Sören Holmberg (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Renato Mannheimer (University of Genova), Michael Marsh (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland), Hermann Schmitt (University of Mannheim, GFR), Klaus Schönbach (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Holli Semetko (idem), and Berhard Wessels (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany). After completion of the fieldwork the datasets were processed into the format described in this document. The nature of this processing is described below (see section on CLEANING AND DATA PREPARATION). This study would not have been possible without generous support from a variety of sources. Data-collection was made possible first of all by large grants from the University of Amsterdam, from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO, the Netherlands), and from the German Bundespresseamt. Additional important grants came from the CIS (Madrid), the University of Genoa (Italy), the University of Mannheim (Germany) and Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut USA). Non-fieldwork costs for cleaning, datafile production and documentation were covered by the University of Amsterdam. Costs for meetings of the international group of researchers which designed and carried out the study were met the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO, the Netherlands) and the University of Mannheim. — 6 — European Election Study 1999 Publications and References Researchers interested in using the European Election Study 1999 may find it advantageous to take notice of the contents of the previous two