Archive A research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics and the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats. The aim of the LES project is to construct a databank containing Labour Force Surveys from the early nineties from countries with different labour market structures. These surveys provide detailed information on areas like job search, employment characteristics, comparable occupations, investment in education, migration, etc. The LES team has harmonised and standardised the micro data from the labour force surveys in order to facilitate comparative research.
Many series are highly disaggregated, and many exist at the monthly or quarterly frequency.
The data set has some coverage of the United Kingdom, France and Germany, although it predominantly covers the United States. The NES time-series now encompasses 23 biennial election studies spanning five decades. Each election study addresses a wide range of substantive themes. The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems is a collaborative program of cross-national research among election studies conducted in over fifty consolidated and emerging democracies. The CSES strives to advance the understanding of enduring and fundamental debates about electoral behavior.