The True European Voter

• Main Author: Schmitt, Hermann
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13601; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5054?lang=de; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5054?lang=en

The “True European Voter” (TEV) research project harmonized and integrated the available cross-sectional survey data of National Election Studies in various European countries. 1. Variables identifying studies and respondents: country; election year; election type: general election or presidential election; pre-election study/post-election study; first or second round presidential election; weights; election study ID (original and TEV); respondent ID. 2. General background variables: Gender of respondent; age; age of respondent at time of election; age groups; marital status; urbanization; region; ethnicity; education; religious denomination; churchgoing frequency; religiosity; 3. Occupation and class: respondent is head of household; Erikson-Goldthorpe-Portocarero class schema occupational classification; employment in public or private sector of economy; subjective social class membership; income; union membership of respondent or family member; union; home ownership. 4. Political interest and involvement: interest in politics; interest in voting; frequency of media use (e.g., television news, daily newspapers) in general or during election campaign; timing of voting decision; political efficacy; legitimacy beliefs: Satisfaction with democracy; trust in institutions; objective and subjective political knowledge. 5. Party attachment: party membership; party identification. 6. Sympathy towards parties and their leaders: sympathy for political parties, leaders of political parties, and presidential candidates. 7. Left-right positions: Left-right self-placement; left-right placement of political parties. 8. Economic and non-economic evaluations. 9. Value dimensions: role of Christian values in society; attitudes toward the position of the family, abortion, pornography, and homosexuality; the role of religious education in schools; traditional vs. modern values in society; State: attitudes toward the state in terms of: Regulation of the market economy, size of the welfare state/public sector, privatization ...