Canadian Election Study Ontario DLI Training, December 2016

Canadian Election Study Title and Description of Survey Survey Division Topic(s) Covered Period covered (date ranges) / frequency Geography Available data products How to access Who would use it? Summary

Canadian Election Study Canadian elections are the primary focus of the Canadian Election Study (CES). main objective is to explain what makes people decide to vote (or not to vote), and, if they do, what makes them decide to support a given party or candidate, and why parties gain or lose ground from one election to another.

Canadian Election Study A team of investigators makes up the team, located at University of British Columbia, Université de Montréal, McGill and University of Michigan (formerly at McGill Also a list of collaborators from a number of institutions, mostly Canadian, but including Stanford http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/2012/CanadianElectionStudies.pdf

Survey Author The CES are designed and administered by academics, and they have been paid for largely through public funding agencies such as the Canada Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. They are made freely available to the general public but are used most extensively by scholars and university students in the field of political science http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/2012/CanadianElectionStudies.pdf

Survey Producer Early studies produced and distributed by ICPSR

Collection methodology These surveys have been randomly administered (mostly over the telephone) to eligible Canadian voters primarily during and/or after federal elections. Interviews were conducted before and/or after national elections and in some cases prior and post major voting issues such as the Quebec Referendum. The studies are based on stratified multistage cross-section samples of voting age citizens living in private residences. Sample sizes range from roughly 1,000 - 4,000 respondents interviewed face to face, over the phone, and/or via mailed questionnaires. Many questions are replicated across studies, although each has questions not asked in the others. https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/series/201

Collection methodology Multiple waves of collection by different methods, depending on survey year, pre and post election surveys Stratified sampling size, at provincial level View documentation for each survey year to explore survey differences

Period 1965 1968 1974 1974-1979-1980 (Panel) 1984 1988 1993 1997 2000 2004 2004-2006 (Panel) 2004-2006-2008 (Panel) 2008 2011 UBC CES - distributing a merged file of the 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2011 CES studies

Geography Province of respondent asked Some reference to region

Availability / Accessibility Extensive web-site (home) at UBC - http://ces-eec.arts.ubc.ca/

Availability / Accessibility All listed studies (earlier slide) available All years served through Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA) on odesi (http://odesi.ca)

Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA)

ICPSR Earlier datasets are linked from ICPSR to CORA, full list of datasets can be found at ICPSR

Who would use the data / how has it been used Extensive list of research topics / papers at ces web site on the following themes: Elections and Election Outcomes Campaign Effects Gender Issues and the Economy Leaders and Candidates Parties and Party Identification Strategic Voting Voter Turnout and Political Engagement Social Capital, Immigration and the Welfare State

Who would use the data / how has it been used From Government of Canada web site: Since the 1997 general election, Elections Canada has participated in the Canadian Election Study (CES), a university research project initiated in 1965 to examine various aspects of federal elections, such as Canadians' attitudes to elections, the issues and dynamics of election campaigns, political parties and party leaders. In recent studies, Elections Canada has provided questions dealing with the following issues: attitudes toward Canadian democracy and Elections Canada itself ; voter turnout ; youth electoral participation ; voting and registering by Internet ; political financing ; representation of certain groups ; eligibility criteria for party membership.

Summary Vast archive of voting behavior data, available openly through CORA UBC host institution, recent datasets downloadable from this site CORA / ICPSR has the historical data