DOI: 10.3886/icpsr08350
title: Political Participation: An International Social Science Council (ISSC) Workbook in Comparative Analysis
title: Archival Version

description: This instructional collection presents subsets of data from 
 existing national election studies which allow students to perform 
 cross-national analyses of political participation. Data are provided 
 for the following eight countries: Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, 
 United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada, and Germany. These 
 countries were chosen by assessing the availability of ample and 
 comparable measures of participation in the context of a national 
 election, and by the presence of properties in these coutries that 
 seemed likely to highlight the advantages of comparative analysis. 
 Variables in the datasets reflect a perspective on political 
 participation limited to election and campaign activities such as 
 voting, working on behalf of a candidate, contributing money, 
 displaying a button or bumper sticker, attending a rally, and 
 discussing the campaign, as well as more general measures of interest 
 in and attentiveness to campaigns and politics. In addition, measures 
 of party identification and other demographic information are available 
in these datasets.
description: Multistage stratified sample, multistage cluster of area 
sample.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Australia
DS2: Canada
DS3: Germany
DS4: Japan
DS5: Netherlands
DS6: Norway
DS7: United Kingdom
DS8: United States
description: Eligible voting age population.
description: Personal interviews served as the source for the 
 various national election surveys. The instructional datasets were, in 
 turn, built from these national election surveys. All the original data 
 from which the subsets were built are available through ICPSR. It 
 should also be noted that this collection was designed for use in 
 conjunction with a printed workbook. The accompanying text provides 
 details about the data, the populations they cover, and possible 
 analysis procedures. The workbook was developed and tested under the 
 auspices of the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and by 
 UNESCO. Texts and data are made available as a joint venture of ICPSR, 
 the Norwegian Social Science Data Services (Bergen), the Institute of 
 Public Affairs, Dalhousie University (Halifax), and the Zentralarchiv 
 fur empirische Sozialforschung der Universitat zu Koln (Cologne). 
 Instructional data and workbooks examining other areas of comparative 
 research in the social sciences have been sponsored by the ISSC and 
 UNESCO. These include: TIME BUDGET RESEARCH: AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL 
 SCIENCE COUNCIL (ISSC) WORKBOOK IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (ICPSR 8542), 
 SOCIAL MOBILITY, [1973-1976]: AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE COUNCIL 
 (ISSC) WORKBOOK IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (ICPSR 8682), and 
 CENTRE-PERIPHERY STRUCTURES IN EUROPE, [1880-1978]: AN INTERNATIONAL 
 SOCIAL SCIENCE COUNCIL (ISSC) WORKBOOK IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (ICPSR 
 7571). Copies of these codebooks may be ordered directly from the 
 publisher: Campus Verlag, Myliusstrasse 15, 6000 Frankfurt 1, Federal 
Republic of Germany.