BES 2005

The 2005 British Election Study Principal Investigators Harold Clarke David Sanders Marianne Stewart Paul Whiteley RO: Kristi Winters RA: Paul Tran

Key Features of the 2005 BES Core Face-to-Face Pre-Campaign and Post- Election Surveys with Panel and Self- Completion Components – Fieldwork by National Centre under direction of Katarina Thomson Four-Wave Rolling Campaign Panel Internet Survey – fieldwork by Yougov under direction of Joe Twyman Separate CSES Post-Election Internet Survey Project funded by ESRC, additional funding by Electoral Commission BES surveys supplemented by 48 Large Monthly Internet Surveys (funded by the NSF)

2005 BES Core Surveys

2005 BES Core Surveys By Country Pre-Campaign: England = 2014, Wales = 642, Scotland = 933 Post-Election: England = 2369, Wales = 733, Scotland = 1019 Pre-Post Panel: England = 1693, Wales = 527, Scotland = 739 Self-Completion: England = 1852, Wales =576, Scotland = 798

Features of The Rolling Campaign Panel Survey (RCPS) Large N’s Pre-Campaign Base-line Survey – Vital For Assessing Campaign Dynamics and Campaign Effects Four-Wave Panel Mode Comparisons Experiments Including Feedback-to Respondent

Aggregate Data For Multilevel Modelling? Yes, some data sets already available and others will be added to website very soon data sets will contain aggregate data from the British Constituency Database – thanks Pippa Norris data sets will contain aggregate census data at the constituency and ward levels - thanks Ron Johnston

Where To Get the 2005 BES Data Download data in SPSS or STATA formats from the project website: Project website also has questionnaires and technical information memos By end of 2005, all 2005 BES data will be archived at the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex Need Help? Contact

Substantive Findings? Early Release for EPOP Conference Papers PIs Findings? Paper at EPOP A Brief Sampler

A New Issue Agenda: 2001 & 2005 BES Pre-Election Surveys

Conservative Nosedive: Trends in Party Support During the 2005 Campaign

Valence Politics: Factors Affecting Probability of Voting Labour

But Where’s Iraq?

Feelings About Tony Blair by Evaluations of His Government’s Handling of the Iraq War

Effects of Significant Predictors on Feelings About Tony Blair