1. Canadian Election Study
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2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. Survey Producer
Early studies produced and distributed by ICPSR

7. 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 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.

8. 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

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

10. Geography
Province of respondent asked
Some reference to region

11. Availability / Accessibility
Extensive web-site (home) at UBC -

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

14. Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA)

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

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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